Mining natural resources and the need for consent put InFocus
Residents of Hollow Water First Nation set up the Peace Camp to protest a silica…
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).
Looking back at the case of Cindy Gladue and the error that delayed justice for her family
Warning: the following story discusses traumatic events. If you need support, there will be contact…
Indigenous business owners share their secrets and put entrepreneurship InFocus
According to a new forecast from the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), the number of…
Canada’s colonial playbook put InFocus in latest episode
APTN Investigates also looks at how First Nations Peoples are fighting back.
Reconciliation and Indigenous allies put InFocus to start new season
What needs to happen after the orange shirts are put away? On Sept. 30, Canada…
Child welfare agency under scrutiny over ‘financial irregularities’
An Indigenous-run child welfare agency in southern Manitoba is under the microscope and its long-time…
‘There are no documents’; Parents fight for child who disappeared in Manitoba’s child welfare system
The government still includes the daughter’s name on the mother’s provincial health card.
Child welfare worker ‘on leave’ after confrontation with Indigenous advocate caught on video
A profanity-laced video that shows a staff member with Children’s Services Alberta (CSA) making comments…
Not even COVID-19 can stop love! Weddings on the latest InFocus
COVID-19 has slowed down a lot of things over the past year, but not love….