Exploring Theme: "Targeted Indigenous Groups"

NationTalk: WINNIPEG, MB  – The Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice announced the official launch of the Healing Support Fund for survivors of forced, coerced and imposed sterilization today. The Healing Support Fund will be available for all eligible First Nation, Metis and Inuit survivors to access a wide range of individual healing and wellness supports...

NationTalk: ANISHINAABE AND DAKOTA TERRITORY, MB — Today, on the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two Spirit, and Gender-Diverse people (MMIWG2S+), the Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO) is announcing the launch of our fourth annual multi-media public education and awareness campaign to draw attention to the national epidemic of MMIWG2S+. “Colonization created a...

APTN News: It’s a muggy, mid-September night and more than a dozen people are gathering outside of the Aboriginal Centre near the corner of Main St. and Higgins Ave. in Winnipeg. They’re smudging, handing out NARCAN kits and gearing up for the first outreach walk by Morgan’s Warriors in nearly two weeks. A lot of...

The Prairie Green Landfill is a private facility outside Winnipeg owned by Waste Connections Canada. Photo: Jesse Andrushko/APTN News  APTN News: The Manitoba government is looking at ways to increase monitoring and surveillance of garbage trucks and landfills following the slayings of four Indigenous women whose remains were dumped in trash bins. Premier Wab Kinew...

By Creeson Agecoutay Larissa Bear walks for murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls APTN News: For five hot and windy days, Larissa Bear travelled on foot, leaving her home of Portage la Prairie, heading east down the Trans Canada Highway to bring more awareness to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). “I wanted...

NationTalk: Halifax, Nova Scotia – The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) strongly denounces all levels of government for refusing to search for the remains of murdered First Nations women in the Prairie Green landfill in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The AFN calls on the federal and provincial governments to take immediate and concrete action to locate the remains...