Stopped in at APTN to take a pic with APTN National News’ FIRST EVER Canadian Screen Award for Best National Newscast! Congrats to the entire APTN National News team!
“What happened on Monday is not who we are. That is being done to us by organized crime, by addictions, by decades of neglect.” - Olivia Custer — ‘We need immediate help’: First Nation’s leaders decry wave of violence, lack of action in Pelican Narrows, SK https://t.co/1JCqrzK0P5
“My house is buying four cases a week of bottled water… in the long run, it adds up.” - Gerald R. Longchap, former deputy Mistissini chief — Mistissini residents still without safe tap water after 11 months as community plans UV and chlorination fix https://t.co/WoztEQQLAv
“(The RCMP) didn’t do a good investigation. If Ramona was a non-Indigenous person, I think there would have been more actions on the ground.” - Roberta Dick, — Ross River residents renew calls to find missing 40-year-old Kaska woman, Ramona Peters https://t.co/ZbgaIR9iG3
“I really do hope that I never have to come and sit here again because we lost another man or woman or child.” - Anna Betty Achneepineskum — NAN Deputy grand chief addresses failure of former inquests to yield change at Thunder Bay Jail https://t.co/IyPOfgJix8
“I’ll run until I can’t keep this movement going.” - Holly Roberge — Relay run continues advocacy for MMIWG2S along B.C.’s Highway of Tears — via CBC Indigenous’ Edzi’u Loverin https://t.co/O8zCyhre76
“We’ll lay him to rest the proper way.” - Brian Pelly, Mekhi’s father — Search for remains of Grassy Narrows First Nation man Mekhi Pelly continues near dump in NW Ontario https://t.co/yZd7B0DzJ1
“I don’t think that the proper care was done and that’s what we want the public to know.” - SCO Grand Chief Jerry Daniels — Family seeks answers after death of 9-year-old First Nations girl twice discharged from Dauphin Regional Health Centre https://t.co/Y2Dlnjiuyi
“I think for such a young person and especially somebody from the East Coast, to be inspired by it was really amazing to see.” - Aliya Boubard — NB student recreates ‘iconic’ Bill Reid print with thousands of Lego pieces https://t.co/om3ApM4siu
“It happened in our country… We’re not 100 years old, we’re in our 50s and we went to those schools and we’re still here today.” - Chief Cynthia Desjarlais — Residential school site stewards explore potential of UNESCO World Heritage Site designation https://t.co/B4sv31d3eR