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October 4, 2024


SCO Launches Fourth Annual Campaign to Honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two Spirit, and Gender-Diverse People

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...

October 1, 2024


Morgan’s Warriors: Melissa Robinson’s fight to search a landfill and prevent other tragedies

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...

September 4, 2024


Manitoba to look at GPS options at landfills following slayings of 4 Indigenous women

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...

August 29, 2024


Tanya Talaga learned about how Indigenous women were erased by discovering her own family’s history

Talaga’s family searched for their matriarch for over 80 years before she took over the investigation The Current – 23:57 How Tanya Talaga uncovered her family’s lost Indigenous history Click on the following link to listen to “The Current” and “Ideas” https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/tanya-talaga-the-knowing-1.7307962 Warning: This story makes reference to racial slurs used toward Indigenous women. CBC Indigenous:...

June 21, 2024


“I just wanted to help in some way,” Manitoba woman walks for MMIWG

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...

May 30, 2024


New Winnipeg community patrol group Morgan’s Warriors to work without police

APTN News: Members of a new patrol group, Morgan’s Warriors, says they’re hoping to use their experience and the information they’ve learned through the trial of self-confessed serial killer Jeremy Skibicki to prevent more tragedies. The group is named after Morgan Harris who is one of four known victims of Skibicki. According to Melissa Robinson,...

April 8, 2024


BCFNJC Releases Framework for Action: Indigenous Women’s Justice Plan Upholds the Calls for Justice

NationTalk: Vancouver, BC  – Unceded & Ancestral Territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations – Today the BC First Nations Justice Council (BCFNJC) is proud to release the Final Draft of the Indigenous Women’s Justice Plan at the 3rd Annual First Nations Justice Forum in Vancouver. The Justice Forum brings together a...

February 14, 2024


James Smith Cree Nation unveils new emergency alert system

System also available for other First Nations looking to better prepare for emergencies CBC News: James Smith Cree Nation (JSCN) released a new emergency alert system Wednesday, two weeks after the coroner’s inquest into the stabbing massacre at the Saskatchewan First Nation. In September 2022, 11 people were killed and 17 others were injured during a stabbing...

July 13, 2023


Assembly of First Nations Strongly Denounces Refusal to Search the Prairie Green Landfill for Missing First Nations Women

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...