Back to school blues more like nightmares for two First Nations families
Return to school stressful for most students, but for two First Nations families it was particularly painful.
Melissa Ridgen
Melissa is a proud Red River Metis 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).
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Mother feels gutted despite getting son back
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Metis mother says she and lawyer to be excluded from meeting with judge that will discuss her children
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‘Baby H’ turns 1 in foster care while newborn brother taken at birth
The agency wouldn’t comment on anything to do with either child’s case
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