Updating your favorite segments from the 2021-22 InFocus season
A lot more happened this year than just the pandemic. The really big shows this…
Melissa Ridgen
Melissa is a proud Red River Métis and award-winning journalist who has spent more than 24 years covering crime, courts, politics, business and entertainment for newspapers in four provinces.
She then joined APTN Investigates in 2009 and APTN National News in 2018 and in that time has garnered numerous awards and nominations including from the World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network (2013), Canadian Association of Journalists (2016, 2019) and Canadian Screen Awards (2018, 2019).
Did time stand still or race by during the pandemic? A look at the news over the past year
When we look back on the past eight months of the InFocus season, it’s incredible…
Extinct people join InFocus for a talk about, well what it’s like to be extinct
As ridiculous as it sounds, InFocus will actually have people who are extinct on to…
Indigenous influencers spin their magic on InFocus
Indigenous influencers are on every medium across social media. Jump on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or…
Stats Can says two-thirds of Indigenous women experience violence or sexual assault
InFocus looks at the #MeToo movement on the show as well.
Sexual violence against women and why is so little being done to fix it?
Within families, communities, organizations even our grassroots movements and healing centres — women aren’t always…
Accept or decline? Breaking down the Pope’s apology
The apology from Pope Francis on April 1 took a lot of people by surprise…
So long MacDonald and Ryerson, hello Haida Gwaii and Kjipuktuk
From Haida Gwaii to the Salish Sea to Kingait, Nunavut and on to Kjipuktuk in…
Connections between Ukrainian community and Indigenous Peoples put InFocus
As the world’s eyes remain on the conflict in Ukraine, we are reminded of the…