Investigates

In the quiet border town of Fort Frances, Ontario, women and children are being sexually exploited and too often by the very people and institutions that are supposed to protect them.

APTN Investigates speaks to the victims, identifies convicted sex offenders and alleged abusers.

This summer, Pope Francis apologized for the role the Catholic church played in Canada's Indian residential school system.

APTN Investigates takes a look back at the historic apology and speaks with survivors about a path forward.

We are all climate disaster survivors. That's the belief of the creators of the Climate Emergency Project – a nationwide network of academics, journalists, and students who are creating an oral history of victims of climate change disasters.

In B.C., APTN Investigates teamed up with Megaphone Magazine, The University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria to help tell the stories of climate disaster survivors from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

There have been renewed calls for the disbanding of the Thunder Bay Police Service.

For more than two decades, the embattled police force has been criticized for their mishandling of sudden death cases involving Indigenous people.

For more than two decades, the Thunder Bay Police Service has come under fire for their mishandling of sudden death cases involving Indigenous people.

APTN Investigates meets with families and community leaders that are still seeking justice.

APTN Investigates first reported in 2021 on the push for museums to decolonize and also repatriate Indigenous belongings and ancestors.

In this update, Christopher Read takes you inside efforts to retrieve a Nuxalk totem pole currently in the possession of the Royal British Columbia Museum.

Last year, more than 2,200 British Columbians died from toxic overdoses, according to the BC Coroner Service.

Ann Marie Sexton's son, Chad, was one of the many people who died in 2021. Now she's fighting to help her younger son enter recovery.

Three militarized police actions in support of pipeline megaprojects have taken place on Wet'suwet'en traditional territory in the last seven years. The Wet'suwet'en call them invasions.

On this episode, Rob Smith takes you inside their battle against pipelines and shows you why they keep putting their bodies on the line.

The discovery of unmarked graves on residential school grounds raises a lot of questions. Why weren't survivors believed when they testified about the graves? Is there more evidence that the churches or Ottawa haven't disclosed? Can the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement be re-opened?

APTN Investigates finds the answers.

Crime and policing are big issues in rural Alberta. The provincial government is looking at ways to improve response times, including a study that will look into the creation of a provincial police force. Alberta has three Indigenous police departments.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled in February 2022 that Ottawa's First Nation Policing Program is discriminatory in its funding.

APTN Investigates explores how a provincial police transition and the recent CHRT ruling could affect two of Alberta's three Indigenous police departments.