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Official account for APTN Investigates - An award-winning Indigenous investigative news program. We are dedicated to exposing injustices, abuses of power and seeking the truth.
In Canada, the histories of residential school survivors are being challenged by a surge of denialism. Dismantling Denialism confronts those attempts to rewrite history and explores what it will take to defend truth and reconciliation.

Dismantling Denialism | By Christopher Read - Airing December 6
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Because of permafrost and bedrock, underground pipes are not feasible in Puvirnituq. But in a place with vicious blizzards, minus 30 temperatures, and crumbling roads, water delivery trucks suffer frequent breakdowns.

Pipe Dreams: The Water Crisis in Nunavik - Airing Saturday on APTN.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The population of Puvirnituq, Quebec, is booming – but the water infrastructure is breaking down.

For years, the Inuit community has faced water shortages. Now, exclusive documents obtained by APTN suggest a permanent fix might still be a pipe dream.
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A paper trail reveals that not only does Inuit leadership have difficulties working with provincial authorities, there is also a history of communication breakdowns between Puvirnituq city hall and the Kativik Regional Government.

Pipe Dreams: The Water Crisis in Nunavik - Airing Saturday on APTN.
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
When some residents of Puvirnituq went weeks without running water this past spring, it made headlines.

But the Inuit community of 2200 has been dealing with similar problems for years, and there's not much confidence in Quebec funding a long-term solution.
November 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The population of Puvirnituq, QC is booming… but their water infrastructure is breaking. For years the Inuit community in Nunavik has had water shortages, and documents obtained by APTN Investigates show that a permanent solution might be a pipe dream.
November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Following a year of tragic loss, video journalist Rob Smith returns to his family’s traditional homeland in Kingcome Inlet, B.C.

Back on the land and with help from his Elders, Rob documents an intimate and personal journey.

A path toward healing, out of the darkness.

Here’s a preview.
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
APTN Investigates video journalist Rob Smith travels home to Kingcome Inlet, BC, to explore how his family dealt with a year of grief and loss.

What he found was a resilient clan determined to stick together through love and culture in the face of tragedies and decades of compounding trauma.
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
After decades behind bars, Jeff Ewert now leads the Canadian Prisoners’ Labour Confederation.

A group pushing to unionize inmate workers and bring basic labour rights inside Canada’s prisons.

Fields of Confinement – Watch Saturday on APTN
October 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Prisoners across Canada are producing goods for Crown corporations and more recently, for public consumption.

This week on APTN Investigates, Brittany Guyot goes behind the walls of Canada’s prison farm program, where experts warn the true cost goes far beyond dollars.
October 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
CORCAN provides offenders with job training and work experience. In 2024-2025, CORCAN’s revenue was $97.1 million despite prisoners earning no more than $6.90 a day for their labour.

Fields of Confinement – Watch Saturday on APTN
October 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Shaun Shannon spent decades in prison, including eight years working with animals on a prison farm.

A path that gave him purpose but didn't translate into a career beyond the fence.

Fields of Confinement – Watch Saturday on APTN
October 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Prisoners across Canada are producing goods for crown corporations and more recently, for public consumption. Experts warn the true cost of this labour goes far beyond dollars, raising difficult questions about dignity, rehabilitation and justice.
October 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The families have said the same name for years.

A man on the other side of the border.

Someone they believe killed their sons.

And reporter Kenneth Jackson is the first person to go to his door and ask him if he did.

Secrets of the Bay - Chapter 5 | Saturday at 6:30 p.m. EDT.
October 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Following a two-year investigation, APTN Investigates unravelled police theories of the deaths of two Mohawk men in 2015.

Now, with their manner of death changed from accidental to undetermined, reporter Kenneth Jackson and the Toronto police homicide unit are on the hunt for the real killer.
October 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Rose Caesar was 15 years old when her cousin Ann Mary Dick was killed in 1963.

A story, she says, is all too familiar in the Kaska Dena settlement of Upper Liard, Yukon.

Justice for my Sister – Watch Saturday.
October 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM