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Ahead of an all new episode of APTN Investigates, reporter Brittany Guyot speaks with us about the episode and how the uncovered records obtained reveals troubling info into the decades long missing persons case of Dawn Carisse.
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Despite requiring 24-hour supervision, Dawn Carisse's records reveal the Ontario Ministry of Health would sometimes pay for her to travel 260 kilometers home alone by bus.
She escaped the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital nine times before disappearing in August 2001.
APTN Investigates returns this week with an all-new episode.
Reporter Brittany Guyot looks into the decades-long missing person case of Dawn Carisse, who vanished from Ontario’s North Bay Psychiatric Hospital in 2001.
Sandra McNeil remembers the distress her mother experienced at the North Bay Psychiatric Hospital before her disappearance.
An APTN investigation of more than 1,300 pages of Dawn Carisse’s patient records has uncovered troubling details about her years inside the hospital.
Dawn Carisse spent a decade in Ontario's North Bay Psychiatric Hospital before vanishing in 2001 - one of six patients still missing.
Uncovered records show what happened behind closed doors.
APTN Investigates: Under the Evergreens by Brittany Guyot – Airing October 31, 2026
What would it take to do something so evil as to spread a deadly disease on purpose? For descendants of survivors of a catastrophic smallpox epidemic, the answer is easy. Greed | Story by Rob Smith. aptnnews.ca/?p=296794
Christopher Curtis is an award-winning journalist and co-founder of The Rover, a news website based in Montreal that has led the way in covering the ongoing crisis in Kanehsatà:ke.
The 1862 smallpox epidemic devastated B.C.'s Indigenous population, killing an estimated 20,000 people.
Historical accounts now suggest the death toll was much higher – and spread intentionally.
APTN Investigates: Weapon of Genocide by Rob Smith - Watch: youtu.be/Se06f_pSz5o
The Frank Poole expedition brought smallpox into Tsilhqot'in territory in 1862. Tom Swanky, author of multiple books on the 1862 epidemic, believes Poole inoculated his men with smallpox.
When a person is inoculated, as opposed to vaccinated, they are protected from getting sick from the disease but remain highly contagious.
APTN Investigates: Weapon of Genocide – Watch tonight: youtu.be/Se06f_pSz5o
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Ahead of an all new episode of APTN Investigates, we caught up with Video Journalist Rob Smith to discuss the estimated historical accounts of the smallpox epidemic that devasted the Indigenous population in B.C. in 1862.
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Albertans voted no to separation but how the referendum unfolded might have left a lasting impact on the province’s relationship with First Nations.
Hear how on the latest APTN News InFocus. Listen: youtu.be/ACjBzrqslfY?si=Md1d…
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Now that Albertans have voted to stay in Canada, what comes next for Indigenous Peoples in the province?
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Chief Roger William, among others in the Tsilqot’in leadership, pushed for and obtained exoneration for six chiefs found guilty and hanged for murder in 1864.
The chiefs went to war believing smallpox had been introduced into their territory on purpose.
Over the last two years there have been more than 30 suspected arsons all involving the booming cannabis industry in the small Mohawk community of Kanehsatà:ke, just 50 kilometres west of Montreal.
APTN Investigates: Devils on the Loose – Watch the full episode: youtu.be/W_Z3l9baRBc?si=nBFT…
