Next week on Face to Face, our guest is actor/filmmaker Cody Lightning. He's been nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards for his film, Hey Viktor! As of today, the mockumentary is streaming everywhere. It's hilarious!
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Three sentence statement from the Métis National Council on Implementation of Métis Self-Government after Métis Nation–SK announces it is withdrawing. metisnation.ca/news-and-media…

MNA and MNO remain undeterred.
“This process enabled, and at times encouraged, misunderstandings and division between ourselves and other Métis and First Nation communities.”

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“This is not a duty we take lightly” - Métis Nation–SK is withdrawing support for Bill C-53.

Diversity Thunder Bay, elected officials, Pride, Indigenous, city services & others co-sign condemnation of comedy troupe Danger Cats (scheduled to perform May 3-4) for “ties to White Nationalism and for their anti-Semitic, transphobic, homophobic and misogynistic content.”

‘This is going to leave an economic legacy in the community’: Kerry Swanson of the Indigenous Screen Office shares how ISO helped fund a new studio in Iqaluit, Nunavut, and the impact it will have in the North.

Watch the full Face to Face interview: youtu.be/chDR6SGbGw4?si…

Indigenous Screen Office has strong foundation to build off with long term, stable funding says CEO aptnnews.ca/facetoface/ind…

Why NWAC decided to part ways with Lynne Groulx | APTN News youtu.be/wnPI3sECzl8?si…

Little Bird along with Hey Viktor!, and Twice Colonized are among the Indigenous-led projects up for big awards at this year’s CSA’s.

All three were among the projects that benefited in one way or another by the work of the Indigenous Screen Office. youtu.be/chDR6SGbGw4

Feds promise $9B in the budget, includes opt-in tax program, loan guarantees aptnnews.ca/featured/budge… by Mark Blackburn

Madeline Redfern, the former Mayor of Iqaluit is now the interim CEO of NWAC Redfern and NWAC president Carol McBride will join us tonight on APTN News

Members of a First Nation in Alberta say urgent action is needed to increase financial transparency in their community.

Court documents raise suspicions, while Elders are forced off-reserve after their house is condemned.

Inside the Band Office: Stonewalled - Watch Friday

Lawyer representing Thunder Bay police members disrupts news conference youtube.com/shorts/MHeZ8be…

‘Where are you from, what communities are you affiliated with’: Kerry Swanson is CEO of the Indigenous Screen Office.

Tonight on Face to Face, she discusses the vetting process for Indigenous filmmakers in response to the growing issue of pretendianism.

A press conference Monday with the Thunder Bay Police chief and the chair of the police board took some interesting twists.

It was held to address charges laid last week against the former chief of police and other service members. youtu.be/5bvrkCXy-vY

“The issues plaguing the TBPS, and its Board are not resigned to history, or the result of a few bad apples. They stem from deep, systemic issues that are ongoing and have yet to be addressed.” - Nishnawbe Aski Nation

‘Producers that were non-Indigenous were accessing large amounts of funding to tell Indigenous stories.’

Tuesday on Face to Face, Indigenous Screen Office CEO Kerry Swanson explains the importance of funding Indigenous filmmakers to tell their own stories.