FN leaders in Washington to stop Keystone pipeline
First Nations leaders are in Washington D.C. to meet with the Obama Administration.
Alberta
Edmonton cops team up with nurses to police inner city
A unique collaboration between mental health professionals and city police is already making a difference in Edmonton’s inner city.
Smouldering concerns FN kept out of Alberta fire evacuation loop
As the government moves people in the Lesser Slave Lake area back home from emergency shelters, some evacuees are finally finding out what happened to all they left behind.
‘I don’t know if I have a home to go back to’
Over 1,200 firefighters from across Canada have joined the battle against wildfires in Alberta.
Four Alberta FN communities fear wildfires
As the residents of the Lesser Slave Lake area flee their homes and leave their communities behind, fire fighters from Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario are flying into northern Alberta.
Alberta firestorm consumes town, roars on
Thousands of firefighters from British Columbia, Saskatchewan and from across Alberta are fighting for control of a massive wildfire.
Lubicon now face second threat as Alberta wildfires creep closer
A beleaguered First Nations community already dealing with the health and environmental impacts of a massive oil spill is now starting to evacuate as raging forest fires in northern Alberta, which have already consumed part of a town, creep closer.
Comedian Howie Miller comes home
APTN National News Howie Miller has won American comedy awards, performed in Montreal’s world-famous Just…
Lubicon youth turn to YouTube in hopes public will “imagine” living through oil spill
Lubicon youth have turned to YouTube to tell the world about what they are now facing in the wake of Alberta’s largest oil spill in the last 30 years.