Melissa Ridgen

Network Managing Editor - National News

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• New program launched for vaccine-injured Canadians

  The Public Health Agency of Canada has taken over a program for vaccine-injured Canadians

  Health

  Apr 1
• Watchdog report prompts renewed calls for Indigenous people to run Indigenous procurement

  Federal procurement watchdog found 'cascading failures' in the federal government’s administration of Indigenous procurement programs.

  Politics

  Mar 26
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• Watchdog finds little oversight over multi-billion-dollar Indigenous procurement program

  Procurement watchdog’s probe says Canada can’t 'credibly demonstrate' that Indigenous businesses are benefitting from multi-billion dollar procurement program.

  Politics

  Mar 26
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• Indigenous identity researcher ordered to pay $70,000 in defamation suit

  A leading researcher on Indigenous identity fraud has been ordered to pay damages and legal fees in a defamation suit filed by a University of Regina academic.

  Canada

  Mar 21
• Lake St. Martin First Nation undergoes forensic audit of $88M in federal funding

  Lake St. Martin First Nation is undergoing a forensic audit for $88 million in federal funding from April 2022 to current, officials say.

  Canada

  Mar 16
• Sweet dreams on new beds donated to Pukatawagan children

  Two Winnipeg volunteer organizations teamed up to take beds, wheelchairs and winter coats 800 kilometres north to Pukatawagan First Nation.

  Mar 5
• 11-year-old Winnipeg girl dead by suicide after her parents say she was bullied

  The Colombe family is sharing their grief in hopes that schools and parents will do more to stop bullying.

  Canada

  Mar 4
• Fisher River Cree Nation elders showered with love by Canadians for Valentine’s Day

  'With winter and it's kind of isolated around this time and we just want to brighten everyone's day with some Valentine's cards and spread the love.'

  Canada

  Feb 14
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• $50M Vaccine Injury Support Program still failing, injured say

  A five-month Global News investigation last year found Canada's Vaccine Injury Support Program wasn't working as intended. It still isn't.

  Canada

  Feb 2
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• Peguis First Nation suing former chief Glenn Hudson

  No statement of defence has been filed and none of the allegations have been tested in court.

  Canada

  Dec 23, 2025
• Court battle between chief candidates reveals $1.6 million in questionable payments at Little Grand Rapids

  Little Grand Rapids First Nation has been marred by a court battle between two people vying to be chief with each accusing the other of misusing band funds

  Politics

  Dec 20, 2025
• N.W.T. residential school grave exhumed, child’s remains repatriated to family

  The grave of a residential school victim was exhumed, and the child's remains were returned to her home community. Five-year-old Alma Beaulieu died at St Joseph's school in 1944.

  Canada

  Nov 13, 2025
• Inuit women’s association in crosshairs of ‘Me too’ movement

  Inuit Me Too is picking up steam with Nunavut's senator weighing in calling for abusive men to be removed from leadership roles, echoing the national Inuit organization

  Canada

  Oct 24, 2025
• Man charged with theft sues Winnipeg grocer for alleged assault

  A Winnipeg man has filed a statement of claim against a grocer seeking unspecified damages after he says he was beaten by staff while stealing

  Crime

  Sep 5, 2025
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• Manitoba foster parents fear families minister has blocked them

  The Manitoba Foster Parents Association fears that it has been cut off communicating with Minister of Families Nahanni Fontaine.

  Aug 5, 2025
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• Federal government faces human rights complaint over Indigenous procurement system

  The Algonquin Anishinabeg Nation Tribal Council plans to bring forward a complaint over non-Indigenous companies being granted access for work set aside for Indigenous firms.

  Politics

  May 23, 2025
• Family claims child welfare agency apprehended children, left them in hotel for two weeks

  A Winnipeg family says five children under age 16 were put in hotels by child welfare workers despite such practice being banned in Manitoba since 2015.

  Investigations

  May 14, 2025
• Winnipeg Jets playoff run inspires philanthropy at K-8 school in The Maples

  A school has found a way to combine reading, writing and arithmetic with philanthropy and Winnipeg Jets fever to smash a fundraising goal.

  Sports

  May 2, 2025
• Manitoba Inuit Association ‘not currently’ a toxic workplace: report shows

  Manitoba Inuit Association hires investigator to declare it doesn't have a toxic workplace. This after Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health found evidence of wrongdoing last year.

  Apr 23, 2025
• Manitoba manufacturers brace for tariff impacts

  Winkler-Morden and much of southern Manitoba is a growing manufacturing mecca on pins and needles in this unforeseen tariff tug-o-war between Canada and the U.S.

  Economy

  Apr 2, 2025
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• Jordan’s Principle ‘not a suggestion,’ AMC grand chief says in call for full implementation

  The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) says it wants the federal government to end its ongoing neglect and systemic failures when it comes to First Nations children.

  Canada

  Mar 14, 2025
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• Parents seek apology for school lockdown and being labeled ‘a disturbance’

  Prominent hip-hop artists are speaking out after an elementary school was put on lockdown when they went to speak to staff about unresolved concerns about bullying and supervision.

  Education

  Mar 13, 2025
• $100,000 catch of a lifetime at northern Manitoba ice fishing derby

  An Onion Lake, Sask., man made the catch of a lifetime at a Cross Lake, Man., fishing derby, hauling in a 100-centimetre northern pike to win $100,000 with 35 seconds to spare.

  Canada

  Mar 6, 2025
• Viral Valentine: Brandon police get clicks with video plea to turn in criminal exes

  Brandon Police Service went viral with a cheeky Valentine's video urging jilted lovers to call the cops on their criminal ex for a stay in a private suite at the Crowbar Hotel.

  Canada

  Feb 13, 2025
• Jordan’s Principle to no longer fund vacations, elite sports, new homes

  Indigenous Services Canada has updated criteria surrounding what is and isn't eligible for Jordan's Principle funding after complaints of abuse and mismanagement.

  Canada

  Feb 12, 2025