Nation to Nation

MP Lori Idlout says she believes she can have more influence within the government instead of from the outside looking in.

Idlout felt frustrated being a part of an opposition party that severely lacked resources due to the loss of caucus funding after the NDP were reduced to low seat numbers in the House of Commons.

She joined host Fraser Needham to talk about her decision to join the Liberal Party.

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Cindy Blackstock, the head of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society says the federal government's funding commitment for Jordan's Principle misses the mark.

$1.55 billion in new funding for the program was announced and is supposed to see it through to the end of March of 2027.

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Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler says residents of Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario are reaching a breaking point after being evacuated from their homes for close to two months due to a water crisis.

The community has been without access to safe drinking water since early January after their water treatment system broke down.

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Indigenous communities are at the forefront of anti-ICE protests in Minneapolis, not only in solidarity with immigrant neighbours, but because other Native Americans are being detained as well.

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As democratic institutions face pressure in the United States, some are pointing to Russia as a warning.

After a brief democratic opening, freedoms were rolled back when Vladimir Putin took power in 1999. Free press does not exist. Indigenous climate activist Daria Egereva was jailed after speaking at the United Nations. Cultural Survival is calling for her release.

Why are those who lived through Russia's backslide sounding the alarm now?

On this episode of APTN Nation to Nation, we speak with an Indigenous activist who fled Russia and journalist Pavel Kanygin, who now runs his independent platform from abroad.

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Greenland, an Inuit-majority territory that has spent decades slowly pushing toward greater self-determination, suddenly found itself pulled back into the centre of great-power politics.

For years, the territory — which is formally part of the Kingdom of Denmark — has been navigating a careful process of decolonization.

That trajectory is now under pressure because of the constant talk from U.S. President Donald Trump about control and ownership of Greenland in the past few months.

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Chiefs from across the country are proposing that the federal government be removed from having control over how the on-reserve First Nations child welfare system is run.

The details are contained in a plan that was submitted by the National Chiefs' Children's Committee to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in late December.

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APTN's reporter in Iqaluit says U.S. President Donald Trump's continued threats to annex Greenland is having a direct effect on the people of Nunavut.

Aside from proximity, Greenland and Nunavut are both northern and remote territories that have small populations, the majority of which are Inuit.

Both are also of high interest to both Western and Eastern superpowers because of their locations in terms of strategic global defense.

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As Nation to Nation looks ahead to 2026, flashpoints are forming in Indigenous–Crown politics.

Long‑delayed drinking water legislation is back on the agenda, raising questions about whether promised First Nations governance over source water — and the funding to make it happen — will survive.

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On this episode of Nation to Nation, three journalists who've spent the year covering Indigenous–federal politics sat down for a blunt look at where things stand.

The verdict? Canada may have entered a post-reconciliation era and the cracks are starting to show.

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