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Members of a First Nation in Alberta say urgent action is needed to increase financial transparency in their community.
Court documents raise suspicions of how band money is spent, while Elders are forced off-reserve after their house is condemned.

A band council in the Fraser Valley has been found guilty of unlawfully denying band membership and writing themselves blank cheques.
Yet, council remains in power as elders die waiting for justice. Kenneth Jackson returns to a story he first broke in 2017.

A Saskatchewan government report on the Prince Albert Police is kept secret. Deaths mount at corrections facilities around town.
Christopher Read investigates policing and corrections in a community with a large Indigenous population — and a lot of jails, too.

Centuries-old errors and weak enrolment criteria have put thousands of Algonquin membership claims in doubt.
After an internal investigation, APTN Investigates returns to Algonquin country — and we meet a family navigating the fallout.

The sharp rise in food prices hit even harder in the North.
In a joint investigation with CBC’s The Fifth Estate, Brittany Guyot visits families and experts in the North to find out the reason why their grocery bills are so high, and what needs to happen next.

This past spring, 30-year-old Gwich’in and Inuvialuk man Frank Gruben vanished without a trace from the small town of Fort Smith, NT.
His disappearance has sparked concern over how the territory handles missing persons cases.