APTN Investigates: Ashes to Ashes - Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/Q6ZyLahu1aY?...
Ervin Bighetty was mayor for the town of Leaf Rapids, MB before council was dissolved due to a lack of members.
The Manitoba government appointed a third party manager to take over, leaving the town without a mayor and council for the last six years.
Dennis Anderson has been in Leaf Rapids, MB since it was built for the Ruttan Mine in the 1970s.
He saw the town at its peak and watched it struggle when the mine shut down, causing declines in population and in basic services along the way.
Ashes to Ashes - Watch: youtu.be/Q6ZyLahu1aY?...
Dawn Halcrow has always called Leaf Rapids home. While she is living her dream, running the Churchill River Lodge, a lack of services has forced many of her family members to move away.
Ashes to Ashes - Watch the premiere here: youtu.be/Q6ZyLahu1aY
What began in the 80s as a request for an access road has grown into a court challenge to get all the land back.
APTN Investigates: A Kingcome's Ransom - Watch here: youtu.be/cs3UbGhJWj4?...
Back then the brand new province of British Columbia enacted a policy of pre-emption.
Any non-native settler could obtain land for a small fee without consulting the First Nation.
Dzawada’enuxw First Nation Hereditary Chief Okwilgame has been at the forefront of a land dispute since 1985.
And he’s running out of patience.
He believes land controlled by the conservation group the Nature Trust of BC was illegally obtained more than 125 years ago.
As a new resident of Leaf Rapids, Emelio Campbell noticed a need for transportation. He started Northern Links shuttle service to connect Leaf Rapids residents to other communities to access services like health care.
APTN Investigates: Ashes to Ashes - Premiering Saturday.
The 2025 Manitoba wildfires devastated communities across the province. But what happens after the smoke clears?
This week on APTN Investigates, Tamara Pimentel travels to the northern town of Leaf Rapids to assess the damage.
Here’s a preview of Ashes to Ashes, premiering Saturday.
Dennis Anderson has lived in Leaf Rapids since it was founded in the 1970s.
He has seen it all – from the rise and fall of the mining industry to the many wildfires the town has faced. In 2025, he helped battle the worst fires he’s ever witnessed.
Ashes to Ashes - Watch Saturday.
The 2025 Manitoba wildfires devastated many communities – including one in danger of falling through jurisdictional cracks.
Tamara Pimentel travels to the town of Leaf Rapids to assess the damage as community members are left sifting through the ashes.
Ashes to Ashes – Premiering February 28.
The disappearance of Natalie Morin’s son Joshua Saulteaux has left her wondering what really happened to her son. RCMP say he may have simply walked away and succumbed to the elements.
Into the Night - Watch here: youtu.be/gBHjZNxuWEw?...
The Dzwada’neuxw First Nation’s operations manger Diana Dick explains the urgency the people in Kingcome feel to re-acquire land they believe was unfairly taken in the late 1800s.
For 45 years a tiny remote First Nation has been at odds with a conservation group to get land back it believes was illegally appropriated in the 1800s.
APTN Investigates: A Kingcome's Ransom by Rob Smith - Watch here: youtu.be/cs3UbGhJWj4
Eliza Daniels is planning another search for her missing grandson in the spring of 2026.
Joshua Saulteaux was last seen on May 5, 2025, in Whitefish Lake, AB, just a few weeks after he won a million dollars on a scratch ticket.
Community members say the dispute could lead to direct action if a solution is not found.
Here’s a look at A Kingcome’s Ransom.
Video Journalist Rob Smith returns to his family’s traditional homeland in Kingcome Inlet on B.C.’s central coast.
For decades, the Dzawada'enuxw First Nation has been at odds with a conservation group in an effort to reclaim land it says was illegally appropriated.
Dzwada’neuxw First Nation citizen Lindsey Willie describes how she squares the morally objectionable concept of buying land back.
APTN Investigates: A Kingcome's Ransom by Rob Smith - Watch Saturday.
Anna Martin spent four years researching the environmental and health impacts of industrial activity around Nobel, Ontario.
Her research led to the creation of Gumption, a non-profit aimed at raising awareness.
War on the Land: www.aptnnews.ca/ourstories/w...
For 45 years a tiny remote First Nation has been at odds with a conservation group to get land back it believes was illegally appropriated in the 1800s.
APTN Investigates: A Kingcome's Ransom - Rob Smith - Airing Saturday, February 21.
After winning a million dollars on a scratch ticket, Joshua Saulteaux vanished from his family’s property. Blood was found inside his trailer, but no trace of him has ever been recovered.
Investigators say he walked away into the night, but his family believes something far more troubling happened.
Reporter Kenneth Jackson investigates how wartime industrial and government decisions poisoned land and water in a small Ontario town. War on the Land – watch here: youtu.be/8Mhwp3ap-RA?...
Adam Pawis is the Chief of Shawanaga First Nation. His community has witnessed the impact of industrial development on their land for generations.
In War on the Land, we take you inside the fight to redevelop a former explosive manufacturing complex in Nobel, Ont., and include the exclusive environmental reports that got in everyone’s way.
APTN Investigates: Into the Night by Brittany Guyot – Premiering Saturday, February 14.
Watch here: youtu.be/gBHjZNxuWEw?...
Joshua Saulteaux won a million dollars in the spring of 2025. Weeks later, the 25-year-old vanished. His Kookum, Eliza Daniels, is still searching for answers.
APTN Investigates: Into the Night - Watch the premiere Saturday: youtu.be/gBHjZNxuWEw?...
Reporter Brittany Guyot investigates the disappearance of 25-year-old Joshua Francis Saulteaux.
Saulteaux vanished from his family’s property on Whitefish Lake First Nation in northern Alberta in the spring of 2025.
Weeks before his disappearance, Saulteaux won $1 million on a scratch ticket.
