In tonight’s top story: Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth is facing calls from the Indigenous community to resign over the decision not to search a landfill for the remains of three murdered Indigenous women. As Melissa Ridgen explains, other police departments have performed searches that are more complex.

Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party has passed its controversial sovereignty act, but removed a provision which would have given Premier Danielle Smith extraordinary powers. Eric Sorensen explains why the act is still causing controversy despite the changes, including how Indigenous leaders see the act as a threat to their rights.

WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from a Russian prison in exchange for arms dealer Viktor Bout. As Farah Nasser explains, while this is the news Griner and her family have been desperately waiting for, another American, former U.S. marine Paul Whelan, is still languishing in a Russian prison.

Plus, John Gosse, a geoscientist researcher with Nova Scotia’s Dalhousie University, is part of an international team credited with unearthing the world’s oldest ever DNA sample, found in a recent expedition to Greenland. Ross Lord looks at the doors this could open, and the glimpse at life two million years ago.

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