AFN needs to get back to its original intent says Doreen Manuel
With the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) annual assembly set for July when a new…
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).
Changing the role of police in the wake of defund police, Black/Indigenous Lives Matter movements
The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020—caught on video…
A decade later, little learned from devastating 2011 Manitoba flood say First Nations leaders, water experts
May marks 10 years since 4,000 people from four First Nations were given hours notice…
Continuing the conversation about police violence against people of color
A guilty verdict in the murder trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin who the…
Indigenous women entrepreneurs more likely to be motivated by filling a need, rather than greed
One thing a lot of Indigenous women entrepreneurs have in common is they never thought…
Indigenous women chefs take Canadian cooking shows by storm
Two Indigenous women are the talk of the cooking TV show circuit and for good…
Amber Alerts, settling down with baby after an apprehension and creating a child welfare act on InFocus
InFocus updates the story of a Brandon Manitoba family we told you about just before…
Headdresses in the mail, racism in health care and beaded maps on this week’s InFocus
A headdress found at the Canada Post warehouse in Winnipeg was returned to its owner…
Inuit art, Listugij Fishery and Cree subs on the menu in this addition of InFocus
On this episode of InFocus, Host Melissa Ridgen brings you stories from across North America….