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‘The cases aren’t being resolved’: Julian Falconer is recognized as one of Canada’s top human rights lawyers.

Tonight on Face to Face, he discusses the growing number of unsolved deaths of Indigenous people in Thunder Bay going back for decades now.

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‘Indigenous people cannot trust that police service’: Lawyer Julian Falconer is representing families of two First Nations people who recently died in Thunder Bay.

Tuesday on Face to Face, he says the city’s police force has gotten worse over the years.

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Such good fun on APTN News Truth & Politics with Dennis Ward & Niigaan Sinclair talking about Movember & all the great memes about MB Premier Wab Kinew #indigenous #NativeTwitter #firstnations #memes #movember #aptn youtube.com/watch?v=AzKu_A…

Don’t think I can even watch the 3rd period.

“I’m worried about the nepotism that’s currently going on in every office,” Lathlin said, referring to “band politics” and “bullshit” before apologizing for her language to the committee.
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This announcement was going to have Grand Chiefs and Ministers. It was cancelled last minute.
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This paragraph is really something.

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The decision about who will sit on the jury for the upcoming trial of Jeremy Skibicki was made inside a Winnipeg court house late this week.

Skibicki has plead not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of four Indigenous women.

In Manitoba, organizations are demanding the removal of a trustee at a school division after he delivered a presentation that included residential school denialism.

Thunder Bay is “ground zero for human rights violations in respect to Indigenous peoples and the police,” says lawyer Julian Falconer, who is our guest on face to face on Tuesday.

Ontario Civilian Police Commission’s Administration of the Thunder Bay Police Services Board Comes to an End
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Air Canada needs ‘protocols for First Peoples’ says AFN national chief after headdress taken aptnnews.ca/national-news/…

Men’s health and memes are in the news this week.

Our Truth & Politics panel discusses the Movember Institute of Men's Health pledging millions for Indigenous well-being and the memes of Manitoba’s premier after he was photographed changing a tire.
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Many are weighing in on an incident on an Air Canada flight where the Assembly of First Nations national chief had her headdress taken from her.

National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak joins APTN National News to discuss the experience. youtu.be/WCPdj_3zhAY

“I saw the bannock one, I saw the hockey one from Smudge The Blades, I like that one a lot, artist Christi Belcourt’s was pretty cool, that’s an honour. I think the main thing is just having a chance to laugh at myself, it was pretty good,” smiled Kinew.
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‘I didn’t know how important it was at that time’: Cree actor and filmmaker Cody Lightning played young Viktor in the 1998 film Smoke Signals.

He tells Face to Face about the cultural impact of the film, especially in Indigenous communities.

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