Infocus

On this episode of InFocus we’re introducing you to a woman who has five lawsuits in the works, all involving the child welfare system. At nine years old she was pulled into the system and has since had her four children taken away - she fears they’ll come for her fifth.

We're putting fashion and style icons InFocus. We've got beaders who are going to Paris Fashion Week where their creations will hit the runways and we’re sitting down with an Anishinaabekwe interior designer from Winnipeg.

Smartphones have made it easier than ever to capture moments, but we’re not all at the same level when it comes to taking the shot. Today we’re getting tips from people who do it incredibly.

The pandemic hit hard and tourism operators took a severe blow but there's new momentum as we look ahead with some optimism. As many provinces are starting to re-open, we’re putting Indigenous tourism InFocus.

On this episode, we speak to a mother who took her fight with the child welfare system to social media. Tamara Malcolm eventually got her children back and is now offering advice to parents battling the system.

On this episode we're putting pizza InFocus – the delicious, mouth-watering food that everyone enjoys. We’ll be joined by chefs from coast to coast and learn techniques to make the perfect bannock pizza.

She’s a giant in the music industry and it would be almost impossible to find someone who doesn’t know the name Buffy Sainte-Marie. The Cree singer-songwriter has won an Oscar, written one of the best-known anti-war songs and always kept the fight up for Indigenous rights. On this episode of InFocus, we’re looking at a gallery in Winnipeg that is now featuring another artistic side of the singer.

We’re putting the Indigenous economy InFocus. If economics isn’t for you – that’s okay because we’re boiling it down and having a conversation about it with some super smart but very down-to-earth First Nations experts.

InFocus is helping you get in the festive mood with song and dance from a multitude of Indigenous performers including a children’s choir in Cree and Ojibway, fiddling and jigging, throat singing, and much more!

There is a push from the legal community in Canada to have Saulteaux sisters Nerissa and Odelia Quewezance released from prison for good. The two sisters from Keeseekoose First Nation have spent nearly 30 years behind bars for the 2nd-degree murder of a Saskatchewan farmer. They have always maintained that while they were there when Anthony Dolff was killed in 1994, they weren’t responsible for his death. InFocus hears from the reporters who have been looking into the sister’s story.

Putting child welfare back InFocus. We’re sitting down with a mother whose daughter ‘vanished’ in Manitoba's child welfare system, along with two social workers who co-authored Child and Family Dis-services.

For 13 seasons APTN Investigates has been bringing you stories that go above and beyond what makes the news headlines each day. On this episode, they’re teaming up with InFocus to bring you updates on some of your favourite episodes over the past decade.

We’re a few weeks away from Christmas and whether you celebrate or not, many of us partake in the spirit of gift-giving this time of year… So today we are helping you out - we have done the scouting for you and have a gift list 2021 to put InFocus for you.

We’re putting comfort food InFocus. Melissa Ridgen is sitting down with 13-year-old Brandon Charlebois who spends his weekends cooking for the less fortunate and we learn how to cook Arctic char from Inuit chef Trudy Metcalfe-Coe.

Did you know our ancestors invented sunglasses, rubber, suspension bridges and much more? On this episode of InFocus we’re talking to innovators who are carrying on the tradition. Later in the show we’ll look at your reaction to the controversial “Tomahawk chop.”

On this episode of InFocus we’re looking at the fascinating story of Renee Acoby, we’ll discuss the supposed ending of birth alerts in Manitoba and also, a look at the reaction to the Pope announcing a “reconciliation” tour in Canada.

Silica sand and peat moss – On this episode of InFocus we’re looking at the companies looking to extract those resources and the groups opposing them, fearing the environmental impact. We’ll also open up Saskatchewan’s plans to build a bigger remand centre.

According to a new forecast from the Royal Bank of Canada, the number of Indigenous business owners is growing at five times the rate of self-employed Canadians. It’s a $30-billion economy now according to RBC and forecast to triple to $100-billion by 2025. What sort of businesses are in? All of them – from retail to real estate. Several Indigenous entrepreneurs who took the plunge into the business world join InFocus to share their success stories.

We’re unpacking the historical and current effects of colonialism in Canada. On our latest episode, host Melissa Ridgen sits down with APTN Investigates producer Robert J. Ballantyne to discuss, The Colonial Playbook. We’ll also discuss what comes next, ahead of the second half of the investigation, The Colonial Toolkit.

What does reconciliation mean to you? On the season premiere of InFocus host Melissa Ridgen is discussing the grief felt by Indigenous people everywhere and the awakening of non-Indigenous Canadians to the true impacts of residential schools.