APTN National News September 23, 2022 – Update on fatal stabbing, Money for MMF initiative

foreign national news I'm Melissa Ridge and we begin tonight in Alberta where a man was sentenced to 11 years minus time served for killing an indigenous woman back in 2015. 72 year old Grant sneezeby was convicted of manslaughter back in June along with offering an indignity to human remains in the stabbing death of 44 year old Gloria glad you from Big Stone cremation in Northern Alberta after killing the mother of seven sneeze be hid glad you's body for nearly three years he then traveled from Alberta to Manitoba where he disposed of her body and in a rural area with time served he will spend the next three and a half years in prison and an update to a story that we brought you last night about a fatal stabbing in the remote community of Fort Good Hope in the Northwest Territories after a two-day search the small in the small community Thaddeus McNeely turned himself into police without incident on Thursday evening McNeely was wanted after one person died and two others were injured Tuesday and what police are calling a stabbing incident he remains in custody and RCMP are still looking for Witnesses in the ongoing investigation foreign health authority has released an update on the patients in care after the James Smith cremation and town of Weldon stabbings that took place over the Labor Day long weekend one patient is still in the hospital to date 18 have been allowed to go home to recover from injuries the suspect miles Sanderson died shortly after his arrest our CMP only said that Sanderson went into medical distress after he was taken into custody Saskatchewan's Chief coroner said a preliminary autopsy showed that Sanderson did not die from blunt force trauma Clive wayhill also said that two public inquests will be held when we'll examine the mass stabbings and the other will look into miles sanderson's death which happened in police custody after multiple requests and a rally the Edmonton Police Service have released two CCTV videos that shows what happened before a police officer pushed a homeless woman to the ground a video guarded a lot of criticism with after the officer was brutally pushing the woman to the ground but police defended it saying that she had a knife something that critics refused to believe new video shows the women did in fact have a knife during a confrontation with another woman on an Edmonton Street police say the officer followed proper protocols Edmonton bear clan patrol leader Judith Gale says that the officer could have just used less force with her the unidentified woman was later released without a church the only person that laid their hand on another human being was the policeman so really who's the aggressor here you know I understand that they say she had a knife but as a little uh woman on uh the Mean Streets of Edmonton uh your knife uh could be um what saves you from getting uh killed we want to hear what you think about this or any of the stories that we bring you or the stories that we should be bringing you here's how you can continue the conversation send your emails to news at aptn.ca you can leave a comment on our website aptn news.ca you can also find us on Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube and Tick Tock follow aptn news to join the conversation and see all of our latest stories well Canadians take time for granted uh and the amenities provided by Service Canada but for those in Nunavut that would be a challenge one that can only be solved by getting on an airplane NDP MP Lori idlute brought up the issue during question period on Friday are the last priority for this federal government as they tell me they struggle to access Service Canada when none of them will attempt to call Service Canada they are expected to wait speak with a different language or have their phone call dropped it is unacceptable that 22 of my communities have to fly out to access a Service Canada office when will this the federal government finally ensure nunava communities have any any access to basic Services they deserve here here The Honorable parliamentary secretary summer myself territories and understanding the needs of Rural and remote communities when it comes to Service Canada we know that there is much work to be done in making sure that we meet Canadians where they are every single day that's why pilot programs like the reaching all Canadians project is doing exactly that to meet Canadians and their needs to make sure they get the services and benefits they deserve thank you Mr Speaker [Applause] we need to take a quick commercial break but there's lots of news still ahead including a celebration of wild rice stay with us a big decision yesterday from nunavut's Impact review board means that 1100 jobs in North Baffin Island are safe for at least another month Kent Driscoll joins us from evaluate with the latest about the baffinland iron ore mine thanks uh yesterday evening the Nunavut impact review board recommended that the Baffin land iron ore mine be allowed to increase their quota from 4.2 million tons annually to 6 million just for this year baffinland had already issued dismissal notices to their over 1100 employees in the event that the increase wasn't approved now that it has been approved by the nirb baffinland has moved the date on the dismissal notes to October 20th that's the date that Northern affairs minister Dan Mandel has said he will make a decision by under Noodle's land use laws the nirb makes a recommendation that recommendation is an approved or denied by the federal cabinet so that means Mr Vandal now has two big decisions on his desk relating to baffinland this increase from 4.2 million to six which the nirb has recommended for and the previous recommendation where the nirb recommended against letting Baffin land up their quota to 12 million tons a year now those two decisions are huge for the territory the mine is one of the biggest economic drivers in Nunavut it accounts for 23 percent of the total economy and around 350 of those 1100 jobs are filled by Inuit I will keep following this ongoing story and we'll let you know when the final decisions come in back to you in Winnipeg thanks Kent well after a multi-year Hiatus due to covid-19 the new trade shows back in caliweet earlier this week Kent Driscoll who you just saw there hit the Arctic Winter Games Arena to take in the show and see who he could meet 100 exhibitors 400 delegates this is annual trade show where business and government meet every year to network the best part of this event is that you never know just who you're going to see why you gakasuke is the president of the kikitani Inuit Association and he knows just how important the development of business is to the future of new nabud Inuit the trade show here in our territory of nurse is an excellent opportunity for businesses to partner up and work together on our territories no economy Andrew ariac is here from pond Inland with the non-profit smart ice they monitor ice conditions in real time and report back to the communities here's how they do it it's what we call a smart commute it's a ground penetrating radar As Told behind the snowmobile and we have a tough pad in between our handlebars and it gives us an actual number of how thick the ice is while we're on the ice the police are here too heliana walk is a recruitment officer for nunavut's V division RCMP one of their priorities has been recruiting Inuit members anawoc thinks the best way to do that is to get the potential officers where they already are in a Facebook page because a lot of people up here love using social media as in Facebook but also there's Instagram and Snapchat but the main one that everyone uses is Facebook this show is a big networking opportunity especially for entrepreneurs like Bernice clerk she's the owner of owasu soap they make soap at a locally sourced materials like whale blubber when you're in business for yourself you need every contact you can make we work with the hunters either getting seaweed we are in few so even during the last in Hall Beach I remember being told don't forget about why so bumper for a while beautiful story that's um Community involvement the theme of this year's show is rebuilding connections Following the show being postponed for years due to the covid-19 pandemic getting business done in univood is always a challenge these delegates can use every connection they can get Kent Driscoll EPT and national news or wild rice as it's known in English will be celebrated at a festival tomorrow on the Curve Lake first nation in Ontario the Wild Grain has been a staple for anishinaabe since long before colonization but it's also been the object of conflict over the years between cottagers and community members joining us now is Damon weitangshi is a coup organizer of this Festival joins us now to talk about it Damian thanks for joining us you know big Festival celebration planned for you and your community this weekend tell us a little bit about uh why and what's planned yeah we have a celebration on September 24th from 7 to 11 and we have a great lineup of things to do it's free of charge and this is the first year that it's open to the public so it's our third annual minoman Cowan Festival which celebrates all things wild rice related as well as indigenous food sovereignty and healing from colonization so we have a sunrise ceremony we have keynote speakers we have traditional wild rice dishes served we have hand drumming and we have demonstrations put on by myself on how to traditionally process the minoan our wild rice I love it well just even the first question and your first answer has me craving my wild rice casserole so I'll have to work that into my weekend plans um you know while Grace huge issue in your community you know our Annette Francis has covered many stories for apti news over the years can you just you know there'd be some people watching who maybe don't know the history of wild rice at Curb Lake uh you know it being endangered basically because of you know Cottage expansion in the area if you could just run that down for us a little bit for context well yeah I think it goes way much earlier than just the Cottages I believe that uh our wild rice has been stolen through genocidal practices um through the government and through colonization so and it's been the dam and lock systems it's been Cottages it's been pollution there's just been so many roadblocks that have taken us taken our traditional foods from us this is our third annual next year will be our fourth annual and we're celebrating trying to mend some of the wrongs done by the uh Williams treaty and so the Williams treaty prevented us from Gathering our traditional foods it criminalized us for uh hunting and fishing and it prevented our access to the land and so we are here I will be here with my dad my children and I'm helping to fix some of that by intergenerational transmission of traditional cultural knowledge this is amazing um so I'm assuming the community is incredibly excited about this third annual event I have to take a sidebar though what's your favorite way to eat wild rice well my personal favorite way is uh wild rice uh with cut up fruit and a little bit of maple syrup on it but I'm also uh I also love it in any kind of soup okay curious you know is the situation they're improving I mean there was there was a time where it's like this you might not have access to this traditional staple food you know is is the situation improving there now um yeah bye this year has been a great harvest last year was a little bit of a struggle um but we look forward to a good harvest ahead there there are always roadblocks progresses slow bureaucracy is slow but um we're out there doing it every day and so we're not gonna stop for anybody we're here to have our wild racing to share with the people who love it I love this uh and things getting better with the cottagers I don't think I've seen a story on ap2 news recently updating with that how is that situation um I don't know I think that we're doing more Outreach and education so the people who want to learn are are coming out and learning people who want to share the minoan and and learn from it as well as each other um are doing that but of course there's still ignorant people out there of course the ignorant people will never fully go away yeah so there's always haters totally Damon thank you so much for joining us have a wonderful Festival wish you all the best there very excited to see some visuals from there yeah well this year we're doing a boba tea traditional style Cedar tea with blueberry bobas and wild rice in there so I hope that's a hit with the kids oh my gosh okay perfect I love it well all the best thanks for taking the time to join us today thank you you have a great day bye we need to take one more quick break but when we come back we'll take you on a trip to indigenous Fashion Week in Paris France stay with us [Music] welcome back let's take a look now at our photo of the day Rachel Mays shared this peaceful shot while on a walk near Leicester Beach Manitoba thanks so much for sharing that Rachel as the weather cools there's gonna be lots of opportunities take beautiful Autumn pictures you can email them to us at Sharon aptn.ca to be featured as our next photo of the day let's take a look now at tomorrow's weather to the east coast we got 20 and showers for St John's 16 and showers for Charlottetown Sunshine is 10 degrees 17 and sunny for the Grand River Studios showers and 12 degrees there shibukumu 16 and sunny skies 18 and sunny for Peterborough and Ottawa 16 inch hours for Sault Ste Marie 15 personal Lookout showers expected there are 17 for campus casing and timing Sunny the Paw is looking for 18 degrees in sunshine package wagon showers and 17. same for you in Winnipeg at Dolphin you're getting rain 2 and 19 degrees expected 20 for Saskatoon and Regina men's with current you're all getting rain 16 and sunny for Buffalo Narrows 14 inch hours for Uranium City sunny skies and 17 for Fort Chipman Fort McMurray signed two for uh last Bridge 22 degrees they are 24 with a chance of showers for medicine hats 23 and sunny for Kamloops and Penticton Bella coola showers and 15 20 and sunny for Fort Nelson Smithers and Prince Rupert and sand spit all showers 15 degrees 10 in showers for Dawson City 10 and sunshine for Beaver Creek 14 for Fort Simpsons and these guys they're Wrigley 10 with the mix of seven clouds a new big mix of Sun Cloud 2 degrees uh just some snow and zero New York seven and Cloud 13 and sunny skies for oil Cove and Chesterfield three and sunny for pangar Town talio minus three and cloudy the third annual Paris Fashion Week starts up in France on Saturday October 1st Cree fashion designer Carmen halcat from the little red first nation in Saskatchewan is preparing to leave to France to Showcase all of her designs there Hellcat is currently in her second year of fashion school she took the chance and applied in April to have her designs modeled in Paris by may they said yep your application is successful her designs are inspired by her Cree Culture and contemporary fashion halcat says that she's been using her platform to inspire youth to follow their dreams just like her my culture definitely inspires me for my designs I mix it up I keep it you know I try to make it into a contemporary modern um and culture all in one and so this collection um is part of the Fall collection that I have and it is called the dockwagon PC collection which means Autumn Skies a woman from the MR wasp is cremation that's north of Saskatoon has been hired as a scout by the Winnipeg Jets Sydney Daniels is the first first nation woman from the 386 area to work for the Winnipeg team after completing her four-year College hockey career at Harvard University in Boston she became their assistant coach she led the USA under 18 Women's National Team to a gold medal in the IIHF World Championships in 2011. she's the second indigenous woman Scout in the NHL Bridget laquette became the first earlier this year now to a story that is part of a special coverage that's coming up on national day for Truth and Reconciliation the Mohawk Institute was Canada's first residential school and it opened in 1828 closed in 1970 the survivors of this school call it the mush hole Geronimo Henry is one of them here's Annette Francis with his story this old building in Brantford Ontario is where Geronimo Henry spent most of his childhood years yeah my mother brought us here to the school in 19 November 11 1942. we come from a broken home and there was no place to for us to to go after the separation of my mom and dad so she heard of this place so she thought well at least these kids will survive anyway at the school at just six years old he doesn't remember much of that day my sister tells me that I was just hanging on my mom's League you know because I was the youngest one yeah so but then the supervisor came around and just kind of pulled me off by Mom flake and my mom walked out the door and I never seen her for 11 years Henry says there were 600 acres here to farm with cows pigs and chickens we never got most of the stuff that that was raised here yeah so yeah and the kids the kids had to do all the work like you know with this like child labor I guess really he remembers the hunger so hungry like actually they opened up a dump at the back of the school here the city of Branford so we eventually start going there to get stuff out of the dump to eat like rappers too like on candy bars or something like that or and maybe big hunks of chocolate that they just throw out he also remembers what it was like every June when the other parents would pick up their kids for the summer you know once one guy starts crying then the other's the second guy starts crying first they know we're all crying there wanting to go home you know but that didn't help yeah it didn't uh but yeah so that's and that was I was like that for 10 years like my mom waiting you know and then by the time Henry reached the age of 17 with a grade 7 education it was time to go home I started my journey down you know like drinking and a lot of just actually became an alcoholic you know like uh for 25 years and from 53 to 1980 then I finally quit in 1980. yeah by that time like uh Yeah by that time in my drunken days I guess you could say like I got married and I had like forgot six kids it was time to start to heal his work as an Elvis impersonator helped with that you could get away I guess you in a way you could get away from all the trauma you suffered at residential school and try to be like him I guess you know yeah and it used to be fun the girls used to holler and scream and you know they'd steal my scarves and stuff like that he became an advocate for other survivors as well he created a program called The Lost generations and was a key figure in kick-starting and class action lawsuit for compensation for six nations survivors I feel like kind of like I was obligated like a Survivor kind of to do this because you know we all went through the uh we knew what they went through and I knew what I went through and which wasn't a good you know a good thing Henry's latest project is on his bucket list to create a marble memorial wall to stand outside this place it will include the name of all the children sent here the ones that made it out and the ones that didn't a little bit you know and I said it's got to be black and I says and and the name's got to be white well I mean like well no I said there's a reason behind that I said and it's all black I says that's all the black abuses and the stuff that they suffer on was uh was evil that they done to us kids and now and the name's got to be wait because that kids it stands for Purity the kids were just pure and innocent when they got here and then that's what they've done to these kids according to Henry fundraising for the wall has been a huge success he expects the work to create to begin soon I met Francis aptn national news Brantford the national Indian residential school crisis line is available for survivors and others who might need support that number is 1-866-925-4419 well you will hear our stories of survivors all next week on our newscast as the national day for Truth and Reconciliation comes up on Friday September 30th ABC has hosting a special one-hour program Dennis Ward and I are will be there we will bring you a before and an afternoon special to commemorate survivors and the children who never did come home we are all the time for your newscast tonight though I'm Melissa ridgeen I will see you back here tomorrow have a great night foreign [Music] [Music]

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Published: Fri Sep 23 2022