Mi’kmaq caught up in forced relocation say ‘apology is essential’
Gibbet Stevens’ red parka stands out against the snow and overcast sky as she says…
Trina Roache
Trina Roache brings 18 years of journalistic experience to APTN Investigates. A member of the Glooscap First Nation in unceded Mi’kmaw territory, Trina has covered Indigenous issues from politics to land protection, treaty rights and more. In 2014, Trina won the Journalists for Human Rights/CAJ award for her series on Jordan’s Principle. She was nominated again in 2017 for a series on healthcare issues in the remote Labrador community of Black Tickle. Trina’s favorite placed is behind the camera, and is honoured when the people living the story, trust her to tell it.
Uprooted: The little known story about Mi’kmaw history of forced relocation
Roger Lewis strolls down a walkway along the shoreline in Digby, Nova Scotia. The Mi’kmaw…
‘Racism is alive and well’: Mi’kmaq fishermen vow to be back on the water after boat sunk
The crew of the April and Brothers, a Mi’kmaw fishing boat that sunk in a…
Cultural resilience, colonialism and challenges for Indigenous journalism
Editor’s note: Trina Roache was one of three Indigenous journalists working in Canada – and…
The irony in Canada’s new deals to reconcile fishing rights 20 years after the lobster wars
Mi’kmaw leaders are raising concerns about the impact of Canada’s new fishing deal on treaty…
20 years ago the Supreme Court ruled on Mi’kmaq fishing rights, so what has changed?
Early on a warm morning in mid-August, Marilyn-Leigh Francis eyes the Coast Guard boat at…
Tobique First Nation hopes banishment will force drug dealers to move on
Increasingly, Indian Act bands are turning to an ancient form of justice called banishment to…
Three Mi’kmaw women taken into custody at Alton Gas site in Nova Scotia
Three Mi’kmaw women have been arrested in an early morning raid by the RCMP at…
Amnesty International calling for independent investigation of police conduct at 2008 Mohawk blockade
Amnesty International wants Ontario Premier Doug Ford to take action on what it calls misconduct…