Our lead story: Métis musical and broadcasting legend Ray St. Germain—aka “Winnipeg’s Elvis”—passes away at the age of 83 after years of living with the effects of Parkinson's disease.APTN

Our lead story: Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has opened a file on a Tuesday afternoon incident at Anicinabe Park in Kenora, with video posted to social media appearing to show a man with a knife in each hand standing in front of a burning building along with multiple provincial police officers.…

Our lead story: Karima Manji, the non-Indigenous Toronto mother who pled guilty to fraud over $5,000 for helping her daughters falsely access Inuit-specific benefits, faces up to two years in prison.APTN

From Ottawa to Yellowknife, today’s Brief features APTN News' extensive coverage of National Indigenous Peoples Day events.APTN

Our lead story: First Nations children and their families shortchanged by a woefully-underfunded on-reserve child welfare system are one step closer to receiving compensation after a federal court approves the distribution plan for a $23 billion final settlement agreement.APTN

Our lead story: a growing number of families at Enoch Cree Nation—located just outside of Edmonton—say lands currently occupied by Enoch’s pow wow grounds were wrongfully taken from their predecessors.APTN

Our lead story: former Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald launches a $5 million lawsuit against the organization, alleging her June 2023 ouster from the top job constituted defamation, breach of contract and negligence.APTN

Our lead story: a Northwest Territories wildfire over 1,300 hectares in size as of Monday night rages less than a kilometre away from the Dene/Métis community of Fort Good Hope, forcing some 300 residents to flee their homes as crews continue to make a fire perimeter.APTN

Our lead story: in a landmark Yukon court case, Jared Skookum pleads guilty to manslaughter in the overdose death of Liard First Nation member Stephanie Pye, to whom he’d sold the opioids fentanyl and etizolam.APTN

Our lead story: families of loved ones thought to be buried in a Winnipeg-area landfill express relief that a search appears imminent, as the Manitoba government announces the first of five stages is now complete, including a budget and necessary approvals.APTN

Our lead story: more on Monday’s announcement by the government of Manitoba about its search for the remains of at least two Indigenous women at the Prairie Green landfill, a search to be conducted differently from what was proposed in previously-released feasibility studies.APTN

Our lead story: Manitoba premier Wab Kinew says the movement of material needed in order to carry out the search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for Indigenous women's remains will commence this month.APTN

Our lead story: The multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki—admitted killer of Rebecca Contois, Marcedes Myran, Morgan Harris and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman—wraps up Monday in Winnipeg, with closing arguments from the defence and the Crown.APTN

Our lead story: ‘Project Surge,’ a Winnipeg police initiative aimed at addressing youth violence, finds many of the youth they’ve identified and arrested are repeatedly in contact with police.APTN

Our lead story: a First Nations student is unsatisfied with the response of her rural Manitoba high school following an allegedly racist reaction to her ribbon skirt.APTN

Our lead story: in the ongoing trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the self-confessed killer of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and the still-unidentified Buffalo Woman—a psychiatrist ordered to assess the accused by the court takes the stand.APTN

Our lead story: the multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki resumes, as his defense counsel tries to convince a judge their client is not criminally responsible due to mental illness in the killings of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran, and Buffalo Woman.APTN

Our lead story: a forthcoming inquest into the 2020 shooting death of teenager Eishia Hudson—one of three Indigenous people shot and killed by Winnipeg police over a 10-day span that year—will look into the role systemic racism potentially played in her death.APTN

Our lead story: a Manitoba mother has spoken out following a disturbing encounter at her home with the Winnipeg Police Service, an incident caught on security camera.APTN

Our lead story: set up in July 2023 in support of a landfill search for suspected human remains, Camp Marcedes—named after Marcedes Myran, a First Nations victim of an admitted Winnipeg serial killer—comes down.APTN

Our lead story: ‘Morgan’s Warriors’, a new group named after the late Morgan Harris—one of four Indigenous women victimized by an admitted Winnipeg serial killer—is set to patrol the city’s streets next month.APTN

Our lead story: Sol Mamakwa, NDP member of the provincial Parliament of Ontario, makes history by speaking his ancestral tongue of Anishininiimowin (Oji-Cree) in the Legislature, the first time a language other than English or French has officially been allowed.APTN

Our lead story: nine years after the drowning of Richelle Bear’s 14-year-old son Haven Dubois in a Regina-area creek, her fight for a provincial inquest into his death is finally realized.APTN

Our lead story: the federal NDP raises concerns in the House of Commons about the state of drinking water in Nunavut, where communities continue to be plagued with unsafe access.

Our lead story: new research finds wastewater from the Dryden Paper Mill intensified mercury contamination of the Wabigoon River, long relied upon by the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation, the bulk of whom show symptoms of mercury poisoning.APTN

Our lead story: three weeks in to multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the non-Indigenous man who’s admitted to killing four Indigenous women—a Winnipeg police sergeant testifies Wednesday about a pen pal of Skibicki’s at a female prison in Nova Scotia.APTN

Our lead story: the trial of Jeremy Skibicki—admitted killer of four Indigenous women—continues Tuesday, when a crime analyst with the Winnipeg Police Service is called to the stand.APTN

Our lead story: Alberta RCMP have linked the mid-1970s deaths of four young women to a man named Gary Srery, a serial sexual offender and killer who died in an Idaho prison in 2011.APTN

Our lead story: during Thursday’s proceedings in the multiple murder trial of Manitoba’s Jeremy Skibicki—whose lawyers claim he’s not criminally responsible due to mental illness for the killing of four Indigenous women—the Crown calls his estranged wife to the stand in support of their argument that Skibicki knew what he was doing and that it was …

Our lead story: on Wednesday at the ongoing multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki, lawyers for the Crown seek to disprove defence claims the accused is criminally not responsible due to mental illness, calling upon neighbours and a worker at aN inner city shelter to testify.APTN

Our lead story: in the ongoing trial of Jeremy Skibicki—the non-Indigenous man who’s admitted to killing four Indigenous women—Tuesday’s proceedings include testimony from a DNA expert, and a Crown request for a mental assessment of the accused, whose defence claims is not criminally responsible due to mental illness.…

Our lead story: the trial of self-declared serial killer Jeremy Skibicki continued Monday, when a Winnipeg police detective spoke to the role that thousands of hours of video surveillance played in the investigation.APTN

Our lead story: on Friday's proceedings at the multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki in Winnipeg, the Crown calls a city forensic police officer to the stand, along with a pathologist.APTN

Our lead story: in the ongoing trial of alleged serial killer Jeremy Skibicki, who's told the court it was he who killed four Indigenous women—Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and Buffalo Woman—the court hears what Winnipeg police found when they searched Skibicki’s apartment.APTN

Our lead story: with a non-Indigenous man on trial for murder now saying he did kill four Indigenous women—Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and Buffalo Woman—the presiding judge must decide not only whether Jeremy Skibicki killed the women but whether he's criminally responsible in light of claims he has a mental disorder.…

Our lead story: our extensive coverage of Red Dress Day events—an annual day forefronting systemic injustice against missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQI+ people—features gatherings in Yellowknife, N.W.T. and Saskatchewan.APTN

Our lead story: a high-profile Manitoba murder trial takes a twist when accused serial killer Jeremy Skibicki changes his plea from not guilty to an admission that he did kill four women believed to be Indigenous.APTN

Our lead story: a Manitoba judge opts to stick with a jury for the multiple murder trial of Jeremy Skibicki, charged with killing four Indigenous women in the spring of 2022—Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and the as yet unidentified Buffalo Woman.APTN

Our lead story: the search of a Saskatoon landfill continues for clues related to the whereabouts of missing Métis woman Mackenzie Trottier, an effort much appreciated by Métis Nation–Saskatchewan.APTN

Our lead story: the third day of pre-trial proceedings in the Jeremy Skibicki case in Winnipeg is much like the first two, with the defence trying to get the judge to toss the jury due to alleged bias.APTN

Our lead story: day two of pre-trial proceedings against Jeremy Skibicki—the man accused of the 2022 murders of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and the as-yet-unidentified Buffalo Woman—features a constitutional challenge of a jury's impartiality.APTN

Our lead story: pre-trial proceedings begin in a Winnipeg courtroom as suspected serial killer Jeremy Skibicki faces four counts of first-degree murder in the 2022 deaths of four Indigenous women.APTN

Our lead story: a Tuscarora family from Six Nations living in St. Catharines, ON is frustrated with the way police have handled their brother’s missing persons report and the investigation into his death.APTN

Our lead story: Manitoba RCMP announce charges against Leon Paul Mercredi, the man suspected of the September 2021 double homicide of Brent Denechezhe and Leona Tssessaze at their home on Northlands Denesuline First Nation in northern Manitoba.APTN

Our lead story: the BC Prosecution Service announces that three RCMP officers won't face charges in the July 2021 shooting death of Wet'suwet'en father of two Jared Lowndes.APTN

Our lead story: a ground-penetrating radar search for possible unmarked graves begins in Whitehorse YK at the sites of two church-run dormitories built to house young out of town Indigenous students during the 1960s and 70s.APTN

Our lead story: Raymond Cormier, the man once suspected but later acquitted of the 2014 murder of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine in Winnipeg, is reportedly found dead in Kenora, ON.APTN

Our lead story: a recap of week two of the ongoing Yukon coroner's inquest into the deaths of four Indigenous women at the Whitehorse emergency shelter.APTN

Our lead story: the future of Bill C-53—the federal Métis self-government recognition legislation—is left in doubt now that Métis Nation–Saskatchewan (MN–S) has announced its withdrawal of support.APTN

Our lead story: First Nations leaders express clear disappointment as to how Indigenous priorities fared in the Liberal federal budget tabled Tuesday.APTN