‘Baby H’ taken again as living arrangement collapses
A Williams Lake, B.C. couple who was abruptly given their baby back Wednesday on the…
Melissa Ridgen
Melissa is a proud Red River Metis and award-winning journalist who has spent more 14 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).
Indigenous newborn ‘Baby H’ returned to parents on brink of court hearing
“By law, the ministry can only remove if the child is in immediate danger and no less disruptive measures are available.”
Audio recording of B.C. social workers reveals hospital staff called to report neglect of 90-minute old infant
Workers with the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) in British Columbia say they…
B.C. CFS moves in to seize 90-minute-old baby on report of neglect
An hour and a half after enduring a C-section delivery at a Kamloops hospital, an…
Independent MLA proposes four Indigenous seats in Manitoba legislature
Indigenous people have been “let down” by the electoral system and a way to fix…
Police watchdog finds no fault with OPP investigation into fatal crash on Delaware Nation
A controversial police investigation into a 2016 car-pedestrian crash that left one teen dead, another…
‘We don’t like your kind here’: Police investigating letter left for Leduc, Alberta family
Mishel Assiniboine has owned her home in the Edmonton suburb of Leduc, Alberta for 20…
Newly elected Winnipeg city councillor Sherri Rollins faces questions about her changing Indigenous identity
Newly-elected Winnipeg city councillor Sherri Rollins faced questions Friday about her Indigenous identity after first…
No news from police review director two years after girl killed along Ontario roadway
Two years after a young woman died along a stretch of road on an Ontario…