Nation to Nation

On this episode of APTN Nation To Nation: Justin Trudeau and the Liberals had the most progressive mandate when it came to Indigenous people than any government before them.

But did Trudeau accomplish enough in his four years as prime minister to deserve votes from Indigenous people when the polls open Monday?

Or does he deserve to be kicked out of office?

On the season premiere of APTN Nation To Nation: We will be looking at the disgraceful state of Indigenous child welfare, especially in Ontario where 102 deaths have occurred over the past five years.

Cindy Blackstock wonders why there has been little said about it during an election campaign.

A Ryerson professor says chronic underfunding is allowing children to die.

And we'll hear heartbreaking stories from two kids caught up in the system.

Romeo Saganash says he has been fighting for Indigenous people most of his life.

He tabled Bill C-262 in 2016 as it would require Canada to align its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which articulates the global minimum human rights standards for Indigenous peoples.

That and more on the season finale of APTN Nation To Nation.

She stood up to Justin Trudeau in his House.

Now Hannah Martin discusses her next steps and the importance of traditional knowledge.

That and more on this episode of APTN Nation To Nation.

Conservatives are against the carbon tax.

But have no plan of its own to fight climate change.

What gives? That and more on this episode of APTN Nation To Nation.

Sen. Murray Sinclair sits down for wide-ranging interview.

And issues a warning to society.

Ignoring the treatment of Indigenous people will likely lead to a violent rebellion.

That’s on this episode of Nation to Nation.

Nation to Nation has an exclusive update in the $5.9 million lawsuit filed over the death of Kanina Sue Turtle, 15, who filmed her suicide in a Sioux Lookout, Ont. foster home.

A third-party claim has been filed against the Sioux Lookout Meno-Ya-Win Health Centre and what appears to be every doctor, nurse or counsellor that treated Turtle in the days leading up to her death Oct. 29, 2016.

That and more on this episode of Nation to Nation.

The sound of geese should mean spring is around the corner.

But for the people of Kashechewan it means leaving their homes.

Every year rising waters flood their land.

What is being done about it? That and more on this episode of Nation to Nation.

It’s completely unimaginable.

You go to the hospital to give birth and leave never able to do so again.

Over 100 women, mostly Indigenous, have come forward to say they were coerced, or forced, into sterilization. And mainly in Saskatchewan.

That’s in this episode of Nation To Nation.

Back when the federal government was doing everything it could to get Cindy Blackstock’s human rights complaint tossed out, she was being spied on by federal servants under the former department of Indian Affairs while Stephen Harper was prime minister.

The deputy minister was Michael Wernick.

That and more on this episode of APTN Nation To Nation.