Nisga’a Nation partners with gas companies to propose $10B LNG facility in B.C.
‘We expect controversy but we are going to engage in talks now,’ says Nisga’a President Eva Clayton
Rob Smith
Rob is a member of the Dzawada’enuxw First Nation from Kingcome Inlet BC. He’s been a part of APTN National news since 2005, Rob brings to APTN almost twenty years of broadcast experience. He joined Investigates in 2013 and has covered protests, land claims and the fentanyl crisis. His cinematography was nominated in 2016 for a Canadian Screen Award.
COVID-19 halts Indigenous rights resistance, for now
It seemed like Indigenous Peoples were on the verge of something big in early 2020….
Youth goes to jail fighting for rights
Indigenous Peoples fighting for their rights, their Indigenous rights, their human rights, are often criminalized….
Climate change: A reporter’s notebook
‘I’m GenX, a Cold War kid. Nuclear annihilation was the terror that kept me up nights,’ says Smith.
APTN Investigates: Cardston, Canada
A town in southern Alberta is under scrutiny for racist and sometimes violent incidents. Rob…
Candidates taken aback by minister’s visit to AFN on election day
It’s election day at the Assembly of First Nations gathering in Vancouver. 538 chiefs…
APTN Investigates: Cows and Plows in Treaty 8
APTN Investigates correspondent looks at the Cows and Plows agreement with Treaty 8 and what that is doing to communities today.
APTN Investigates: Justice for Colten
Colten Boushie, a 22-year old Cree youth was shot in the head by Saskatchewan farmer…
APTN Investigates: A Case For Innocence
Early on an April morning in 1983 Delavina Mack was raped and killed in her…