Wasaya Airways lays off 46 employees after hiring restructuring firm
“We’re restructuring. That’s all I can say right now.”
Kenneth Jackson
Kenneth is a journalist with nearly two decades of reporting experience who focuses on crime and social issues, including child welfare and wrongful convictions. He has worked out of APTN’s Ottawa bureau since October 2012.
Airline operating as sole link for fly-in First Nations riddled with safety deficiencies: documents
Wasaya Airways fighting to keep safety audits from public.
Algonquin sisters to stay with non-Aboriginal foster family: Ontario Court of Appeal
They’ve been with their foster family for almost all of that time and the court found removing them may cause undue harm.
Family of deceased Indigenous woman suing Toronto police for $14 million
APTN National News The family of an Indigenous woman that died in Toronto under suspicious…
‘We found you in a catalogue of Native children’
On Colleen Cardinal’s adoption records it says her parents were Aboriginal and alcoholics.
Budget cuts scale back RCMP’s Highway of Tears unit
Kenneth Jackson APTN National News As calls for an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women grow,…
First Nation-owned Wasaya Airways warned shareholders last month company’s ‘going down’ amid growing debt
Near the end of July the chief of Fort Severn First Nation in northern Ontario went on the local radio and told the community Wasaya Airways was in trouble with growing debt, adding the future didn’t look good for the company that has been serving them for over a decade.
Bruce Carson preliminary hearing ends, judge rules enough evidence for trial
By Kenneth Jackson APTN National News A former senior advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper…
Public Safety tried to pressure First Nations police services to accept ‘bogus’ funding agreements
By Kenneth Jackson APTN National News OTTAWA – Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney is refusing…