Our lead story: with over 50 First Nations now part of a $1.1 billion class action suit against the federal government over access to safe drinking water, the NDP raises the issue Tuesday in the House of Commons. 

Our lead story: pressed in Question Period by the NDP on “the housing crisis in Indigenous communities,” the Liberal Minister of Public Services and Procurement Jean-Yves Duclos blames the previous Conservative government. . . . . . . Interstitial: zapsplat.com

Our lead story: funding for the pilot of a Manitoba-wide ‘red alert system’ is announced on the National Day of Action for MMIWG2S. . . . . . . . . .  Interstitial: pixabay.com

Our lead story: 72-year-old Clarence Woodhouse’s half-century-long fight to clear his name of a 1974 murder conviction ends with a Manitoba judge formally declaring his innocence. . . . . . . .  Interstitial: zapsplat.com    

Our lead story: asked about calls for a public inquiry into recent First Nations fatalities during encounters with Canadian police, Crown–Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree says an investigation is needed. . . . . . . .  Interstitial music: ZapSplat.com  

Our lead story: on Monday’s National Truth and Reconciliation Day, some residential school survivors of the Mohawk Institute hold the feds’ feet to the fire over funds for searches for unmarked graves.

On today’s podcast, how some parts of Canada observed the fourth-annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Monday.

Our lead story: tensions return to the waters off southwestern Nova Scotia as Mi'kmaw lobster harvesters and federal fisheries officers collide.

Our lead story: the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) releases more details about a fatal Sept. 17 interaction between Blood Tribe member Jon Wells, 42, and several Calgary police officers. . . . . . . . . Interstitial music: ZapSplat.com

Our lead story: the family of Ronald Skunk—the Mishkeegogamang First Nation man whose death is now under investigation by Ontario's police watchdog—express concerns about interactions with police and paramedics in Pickle Lake ON three days prior to his death. . . . . . . .  Interstitial music: ZapSplat.com

Our lead story: along with fellow residents of Southbank BC, the parents of 6-year-old Oaklynn Schweder—the shoeless, non-verbal girl who’d gone missing for over three days—are relieved to find her safe and sound Sunday evening. . . . . .   Interstitial credit: ZapSplat.com  

Our lead story: an extensive 4-day search, including RCMP and Canadian Rangers, for 6-year-old Johnson Redhead of Shamattawa Cree Nation in northern Manitoba comes to a tragic end when his remains are located Sunday evening.  . . . . SFX: ZapSplat.com

Our lead story: advocates discuss the impacts of the sudden pause of the Canada-Manitoba Housing Benefit on youth aging out of care and people at risk of homelessness. . . . . . .  SFX source: ZapSplat.com

Our lead story: an Indigenous person is confirmed dead upon contact with Canadian police—the seventh such fatality in the last two and a half weeks—Blood Tribe member Jon Wells, 42, following an interaction with Calgary police. . . . . .  Sound Effect: Bryan Jesus De Los Santos Breton from Pixabay

Our lead story: family of an alleged male victim of the late Johannes Rivoire—the Catholic priest charged but never tried for sexual abuse of four children in Nunavut—want RCMP to release their father's records, a call echoed this week in Question Period.

Our lead story: Nunavut MP Lori Idlout successfully calls for an emergency debate in the House of Commons Monday evening about the recent deaths of six Indigenous people over 11 days after encounters with law enforcement.  

Our lead story: the family of 34-year-old Steven "Iggy" Dedam—recently shot and killed by RCMP on Elsipogtog First Nation, and one of six fatal Indigenous encounters with police in Canada since August 29—says he was met with excessive force instead of help by officers. 

Our lead story: Over the past two weeks, there have been six deaths involving interaction with law enforcement–and all of the deceased are First Nations citizens.

Our lead story: Manitobans pay their respect to the late Grand Chief Cathy Merrick.

Our lead story: details are released on funeral arrangements and celebration of life events for the recently-deceased Cathy Merrick, the first woman grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs.

Our lead story: words of condolence from provincial politicians follow Friday’s sudden death of Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs leader Cathy Merrick.

Our lead story: Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Cathy Merrick dies on Friday after collapsing outside a Winnipeg courthouse.

Our lead story: An update on the shooting death of a 15-year-old from the Samson Cree Nation by the RCMP.

Our lead story: A protest was held after a First Nations woman was struck and killed by Winnipeg Police Service officers with a vehicle. 

Our lead story: A fifteen-year-old from the Samson Cree Nation in Alta. is dead after a confrontation with RCMP officers.