Nov 23, 2018
Kathleen Martens has done it all, from covering agricultural stories for a small-town paper in rural Manitoba to taking on the complexities of the federal bureaucracy, not to mention just about the entire legal profession. First in local print and then in long form TV investigations for a national audience and now on...
Nov 16, 2018
It’s been a unique journey for APTN Vancouver Video Journalist Tina House. She learned how to be in the right place at the right time from her Metis leader father. She picked up the skills she needed to survive and prosper in media the hard way, waiting tables along the way.
Then during the very first season of APTN...
Nov 9, 2018
Francine Compton’s father made her transcribe interviews as a child, then encouraged her to study broadcast, telling her one day Indigenous people would have their own TV network.
She was still a teenager when she was put in charge of APTN’s studio crew. She’s since worked as a reporter, producer and is now part...
Nov 3, 2018
It became clear early on at APTN that the majority of reporters it was hiring were single moms. Melissa Ridgen talks about balancing motherhood and journalism.
As well this episode dives into Ridgen's investigation into the scandal surrounding the Manitoba Association Of Native Firefighters' (MANFF's) apparent disregard...
Oct 26, 2018
Kenneth Jackson, a former Ottawa Sun crime reporter trying his hand as a freelancer, got the box. In it were documents with politicians' names, someone who had a personal connection to the prime minister and a mass of information about First Nations water.
Jackson put the box in the trunk of his car and drove to...