Muslim youth educated about reconciliation on heels of London, Ontario school tensions
InFocus Imam Abd Alfatah Twakkal isn’t wrong when he says high school can be a…
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).
Housing crisis not fixable under current model, but can be made worse with bad government
InFocus Sylvia Olsen has a grim distinction. “How many 64 year old white women know…
Devastated parents say incentivized apprehensions need to stop in Manitoba
A Brandon Manitoba family, who is in a bitter battle with Michif Child and Family…
B.C. family questions visitation schedule imposed on Baby H
A supervised visitation schedule obtained by APTN News and imposed on a British Columbia couple…
‘You can’t be us’: Manitoba Metis Federation unanimously passes resolution to leave Metis National Council
The Manitoba Metis Federation (MMF) is prepared to leave the Metis National Council (MNC) because…
No plan in place to return babies already seized through controversial birth alerts in B.C.
She stressed only babies who were in dire circumstances, were ever taken under the alerts.
B.C. ends birth alerts but families question what it means for babies already in care
British Columbia announced Monday that effective immediately, it’s ending the controversial practice of putting birth…
Medicine exchange hosted in Winnipeg
Harvesters and users of traditional medicines gathered in Winnipeg this week to exchange medicines from…
Baby H is in her fifth foster home and family services has stopped communicating with family says grandfather
Baby H, the B.C. infant who was seized from hospital after medical staff reported her…