‘Our people are dying’: Complaint filed with Canada’s advocate over lack of safe housing
A group of women from various groups across the country stood by the Centennial Flame…
Annette Francis
Annette is Anishinaabe from Alderville First Nation. She started at APTN as an Ottawa Correspondent in 2007 and has covered Indigenous issues from Parliament Hill and First Nation communities across Ontario. She has also freelanced for CBC Indigenous and Ricochet Media.
Kitigan Zibi school partners with Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger to push fashion design program
Algonquin students from the Kitigan Zibi Kikinamadinan School in Quebec held their first-ever fashion show…
Tyendinaga flight school takes to the skies after devastating hangar fire
Flight school in the Mohawk community helped train pilots during the Second World War.
Les Algonquins de Lac-Barrière ont été forcés de fermer son école primaire due à la moisissure
Ce n’est pas la première fois que la communauté algonquine a eu besoin de trouver…
Barriere Lake closes school because of sewage leak again
More than 80 elementary school students have been forced to attend classes in alternative buildings…
City of Hamilton taking steps to fight homelessness, but there’s a lot of work to do
For the past three years, Larry Simpson has been homeless. But that’s about to change….
‘We were here first’: Larga Baffin faces pushback from residents, city councillor against proposed Ottawa location
Larga Baffin, an organization that operates a medical hostel for Inuit travelling to Ottawa for…
Mohawks of Akwesasne expanding support for child welfare services with neighbouring city
The Mohawks of Akwesasne are expanding support for child welfare services into the neighbouring city…
Parties take questions from First Nations leaders ahead of Ontario election campaign
Liberal, NDP and Green party leaders addressed the Chiefs of Ontario during a virtual forum…