APTN National News November 23, 2020 – Illegal land leasing settlement reached, Harvesting lesson

the illegal part of it was for any lease of this type there was to be a community boat and there was no community above tonight the enoch cree nation reaches a settlement with the federal government over illegally leasing their land i said not only guys could do fish but i'll give it a try ice fishing in the northwest territories turns into commercial harvesting lessons not only do you have expert people state-of-the-art equipment to help individuals at the time but most need when they're sick but this also can serve to prevent and heal and a first nation is co-owner of a medical imaging center in saskatchewan good evening welcome to aptn national news i'm melissa ridgeon the family of a first nations woman who went missing in the spring is pleading for help from the public melinda link's leg was last seen in march near her home community in manitoba rcmp say an extensive investigation has failed to bring the family concrete answers brittany hobson has more you know melinda is loved she has a family she has friends and we just want to know where she is for the fourth time in seven months manitoba rcmp are calling on the public for information about melinda link's leg's whereabouts the first nations woman has been missing since march 31st betty link's leg says it's been a nightmare for the family especially for her niece's six kids we have no real answers there's been a lot of rumors stories that sort of thing melinda was last seen near her community tutina aoi zibing first nation northwest of winnipeg ling's leg says she visited friends outside the community and was believed to be walking home we also had the blockade up for the first round of covid so she never made it to that blockade and when we did do a search on the ground of that area there was a purse found and was identified by her oldest daughter rcmp say melinda has not accessed her bank account and there's been no activity on her social media corporal julie kershane says the investigation has hit a standstill and officers are relying on help from the public yes so we have uh interviewed over 50 people in regards to this uh melinda being missing as well as uh you know we're liaising all the time with partner agencies we're following up on tips and we're just you know doing everything we can to to try and have some answers for her family the family has been conducting their own searches link's leg applauds the rcmp for their work but believes there should be an indigenous investigative team to assist in missing persons cases where we were um it was a fast terrain the last search we did and you know just being family members we're just looking you know and if we had somebody that was trained and had that equipment um i think it would help for all of us anyone with information is asked to call roblin rcmp or crimestoppers brittany hobson abc national news winnipeg thanks brittany in southern alberta the blood tribe had a total of 15 overdoses in the span of just 24 hours over the weekend tribal police are warning the community of a highly concentrated batch of drugs one person is believed to have died from an overdose an autopsy will confirm that cause of death at a later date it's unclear what drugs authorities are dealing with but police are seeking the public's help help to track down the source of the substance and they're reminding everyone to use narcan kits and check in on their loved ones the prairie harm reduction safe consumption site in saskatoon has closed its doors for two weeks after one of the staff tested positive for covid19 the site only opened last month but is now shut down until december 7th the site is also a place that clients could warm up in the winter the executive director of prairie harm reduction says not only will the building be closed to clients but staff will be able to distribute naloxone overdose kits it was a really tough tough decision because not everybody's going to be able to access mobile supports on top of that we were the main naloxone distributor for the entire province so we've delivered over one-fifth of all the locksmith kits for all of saskatchewan and we did it out of our building um you know and so we're gonna have a two-week clip where we're not able to get naloxone kits out to the public fred sasakimus one of the national hockey league's first indigenous hockey players is in hospital with covid19 sakamoos was admitted to the hospital over the weekend and the test came back positive on sunday sasakabu has played 11 games for the chicago blackhawks in the 1954 nhl season messages poured in online for the hockey pioneer with the current former nhl player sending him their best wishes the 86 year old is in an isolation unit in the hospital and has some fatigue and trouble breathing according to his son neil a facebook video neil stressed the importance of following public health guidelines it's it's real we have to be careful we have to follow the orders of what what the physicians tell us what the professionals tell us we have to follow them no one wants to lose uh a family member to this like i there's a thousand ways to pass away but when it's preventable and this is preventable we should do everything we can to prevent anyone from getting this it's been nearly a year since maxwell johnson and his granddaughter were handcuffed by vancouver police for simply trying to open an account at the bank of montreal with a status card new media reports say it was indigenous services canada who had suggested that police be called in today the conservative opposition asked the government about this in question period on december 20th of last year maxwell johnson and his granddaughter were handcuffed and put in the back of a police cruiser for simply attempting to open a bank account using a status card as identification today we learned that it was isc the minister's own department that encouraged the bank to call 9-1-1 mr speaker does the minister actually think that this was an appropriate response by his department honorable minister well mr speaker the the incidents in question were were are exceedingly alarming they indeed they did occur a year ago and what we saw as a process of systemic racism showing its head on the ground with the results that it had with with the police intervening clearly clearly all members of society need to know and respect the validity of a status card i only recently got the transcript of the 911 in the process of reviewing it it is slightly unclear but if there is an indigenous issue if there's an issue with indigenous services canada and its involvement we will act swiftly thank you a group of land offenders released a video on social media last week it features activists in hot spots such as watson territory and 1492 land back lane they want november 23rd to the 29th this week to be in their words a national call to action to defend their territories and sovereignty the first event of the week took place in vancouver at noon today this is the scene from that demonstration so far we've not received word of any further events coming up this week time for a commercial break but still ahead making a new industry out of an old commercial venture we'll be good to the people give them work opportunity to become a fisherman it's good to pass it off you can love you young generations welcome back during world war ii the federal government took over enoch crenation land to use as a bombing range not far from edmonton now nearly eight decades later the nation has reached a settlement with canada over the illegal lease of that land chris stewart spoke to enoch chief billy morin about the little-known bit of canadian war history and how it led to this settlement from 1941 to 1945 two sections of land making up 1200 acres of enoch land were illegally leased by the federal government to be used as a practice bombing range during the war this included lake yigao which was the community's source of water the lake never recovered and to this day there are unexploded bombs still there in 2014 enoch's golf course closed down due to safety concerns when live rounds were discovered the federal government still denies live rounds were used the nation has been in negotiations with the crown since 2007. enoch chief billy mourin says the land was illegally used the illegal part of it was um for any lease of this type there was to be a community vote and there was no community vote so that's the legal ramification that we explored resolving this claim and uh from 1941 to 45 there was approximately at our s best guess estimate about 100 000 rounds of ammunition practice bombs dropped into our lake on the two sections of land bombs that destroyed the lake today 75 years later there are no fish the water is unsafe to drink the 1200 acres are mostly abandoned in early november the federal government and the enoch cree nation announced a 91 million dollar settlement chief warren says the money will be used several ways loss of use uh for our economic development purposes uh notably the golf courses on those two sections of land um uh some of it will go into a per capita distribution for the nation members themselves um and some of it will go into ban uh program funding um to upkeep some of our services that were lost on those two those two areas of land um but the primary thing that it it the 91 million dollars was made up of was land reclamation reclaiming the land and lake yigao removing the bombs still there cleaning the lake chief warren says it will take many years and there are members who remembered the bombings who have passed on growing up in enoch we had a lot of people pass away who who talked about wanting to see this claim done and unfortunately they're not here anymore so for the elders that are still here um you know i i'm just glad that they're they're here to see a day that the claim has been resolved and they can um they can take that closure and we can move forward in a good way chris stewart apti national news edmonton we want to hear what you think about canada finally settling with enoch creek nation for 91 million dollars for the misuse of their land you can let us know what you think send your emails to news at aptm.ca you can leave a comment on aptnews.ca you can also follow aptm news on facebook twitter instagram and youtube where you can also share your comments in july we told you of a historic deal struck between indigenous fishers and government of the northwest territories the agreement aims to see an increase in production with better financial returns for fishers charlotte moore jacobs looks at how one community is building their own industry being out on the mighty mackenzie is second nature located west of great slave lake chateau fort providence northwest territories is home to roughly 700 people families here have been fishing since time immemorial but now they're taking their skills to the next level learning how to commercially harvest after ice safety and equipment training the real fun begins i didn't want to use the white fish i didn't want to waste on it so i'm just practicing on the jacket it's loretta alize's first time filleting i just took a chance and i just gave my name in last minute i said not only guys could do fish so i said i'll give it a try she's quick to catch on now i could do my own at home if i ever could sit in it over the last two years the de gaucho de dene have been hard at work to restore the community fish plant with the goal of opening a store here by christmas we will have fish in here and i'll say selling fish monday to thursday what's that friday every friday they'll be shipped to the fish plant so at least it'll be there's income coming in after each week around two dozen members took the training band counselor michael bandel says it's just the beginning now the second step is training all the guys you know on prepping the fish not wasting the fish get as much product out of the fish you can the next one will be the food handling course michael landry is vying to become a commercial fisher well it'll be good for the people give them work opportunity to become a fisherman let's get the pasadena to young generations and time is of the essence this summer indigenous fishers group tucho cooperative struck a deal with the territorial government to begin selling nwt fish in nwt grocery stores dega plans to meet their commercial quota and will plow an ice road this winter to deep bay an area close by traditionally used but being opened up for the first time in hopes trainees take their new skills professionally charlotte morris jacobs apt on national news for providence a new 2.2 megawatt solar farm is now generating power in northern alberta the project is owned by the athbasca chippewa first nation the mikisu first create first nation and the fort chippewa metis association nearly 6 000 solar panels will replace over 800 000 liters of fuel each year and provide 25 percent of the community's overall power and athabasca chippewa chief alan adams says that even more renewable energy is coming we put it under budget so there's revenue left over and with the revenue that's left over we're going to buy more panels and put them up and eventually it's just going to continue to grow it's not going to stop so our main objective is to reduce the intake of fuel maybe down to 25 and flip it around 75 percent solar time for another break but coming up a saskatchewan first nation is part owner of a new company doing ct scans and mri imaging in that province four years ago it was a discussion a discussion and a vision a vision to reality it's time now for our photo of the day this was the scene from one of the many snowmobile trails located just outside of gillum manitoba thanks to laura kirkness for capturing this moment it's great looking at the trails beautiful there stay warm and safe this was the second photo of a trail sent to us by some of the beautiful trail systems up in northern manitoba you can show us what you're doing outdoors or send a holiday decorating picture any other great photo email it to share aptn.ca and your photo could be our next photo of the day well it's time now for tomorrow's weather forecast to the east coast we got nine and some rain for st john's halifax 13 and sunny skies the ground river minus six in snow could to hack minus 11 in snow sagging a minus five and snow quebec city sunshine minus two peterborough snow and four degrees north bay minus two mix of sun and cloud cap is casing minus five and snow thunder bay minus two in sunny skies minus eleven's for uh pokedwagon and thompson snow there zero and sunny for winnipeg minus two mix ascending cloud for brandon minus ones and snow for swift current and regional is sixth in sunshine for north battlefield saskatoon minus 10 and sunny for larange minus 16 in snow for uranium city minus 17 in sunshine for fort chip minus 11 and snow for fort mcmurray minus two and sunny for edmonton sixth and sunny skies for lethbridge five in rain for kamloops in penticton nine in rain for campbell river six in rain for prince rupert minus fifteen in snow for fort nelson white horse minus nine in snow uh minus 19 and sunny for beaver creek huawei t minus 11 in snow fort leonard and trout lake both minus 18 and snow minus 18 and sunny for fort mcpherson a new vic minus 17 and sunshine minus 21 to sunny for baker lake whale cove minus 20 and sun igloo like minus 21 in sunny arctic bay minus 17 and snow kenyatt minus 13 in sunny queens university and former indigenous affairs minister jane philpott are announcing changes to their medical school admissions process to allow more black and indigenous students the kingston based university recognized an underrepresentation of black and indigenous students in their med program the new initiative will allow 10 students direct entry into queen's medical school without having to write an entrance exam dr philpott is the dean of health sciences at queens she says the program is in response to obstacles faced by black and indigenous students we identify the very top students in grade 12. it has been highly popular and we recognize that indigenous students do face barriers in access to medical school sometimes financial barriers sometimes cultural geography you know getting to a place where there's communicating with the students who lives in nor a community in northern ontario and even being able to get to a place where she could write the mcat exam was going to be difficult for her so someone like that this would be a real opportunity for them to be able to address those barriers in other medical news the james smith cree nation in saskatchewan is one of the owners of a new clinic that provides the latest technology in ct scans and mri mri imaging priscilla wolf has that that story the national medical imaging clinic in education and research center open its doors in saskatoon and the james smith cree nation is one of the partners chief wally byrne says the clinic has been in the works for years four years ago it was a discussion a discussion and a vision a vision to reality today we are opening this mri to the public and also the province dragon rastad president and ceo of the james smith cree nation national medical imaging clinic and education and research center says this is the first time a medical imaging center has an indigenous organization as a part owner and the clinic will play an important role in education and research the importance of this type of project in the city of saskatoon standing in the middle of the city of saskatoon in the market mall is uh this type of clinic is something that is needed in a in currently in our health system it's a ct an mri two machines that provide the studies and important uh services to saskatchewan health authority and appropriate doctor radiologists can do their job we can educate and work with researchers this clinic will help patients educators and researchers in saskatchewan as well as neighboring provinces with the latest mr ct and x-ray technology and will contribute to education and research this is a really big deal not only do you have expert people state-of-the-art equipment to help individuals at the time of most need when they're sick but this also can serve to prevent and heal the clinic's newly formed education and research center will collaborate with educational institutions like sas polytechnic and the university of saskatchewan province-wide to provide research and educational opportunities in the field of imaging priscilla wolfe apt-10 national news saskatoon all eight of the indigenous languages in the yukon are facing extinction our sarah connors takes a look at why they're disappearing and what communities are doing to bring them back the yukon is home to eight indigenous languages and all of them are disappearing it's now estimated that there are less than 20 speakers for each language here on aptn national news we'll be bringing you a perspective series on the yukon's fight to save its languages we'll learn why these languages are vanishing and also meet the people who are doing their part to pass on these languages to the next generation perspectives on language revitalization in the yukon coming soon on aptn national news well that is your national indigenous news to kick off the week if you missed anything visit our website aptnews.ca and if you haven't already download the aptn news app on your smartphone to stay right up to the minute i'm melissa ridden have a great night see you back here tomorrow so [Music] you

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Published: Tue Nov 24 2020