Monthly Archives: October 2015

How the Bob Carty Fellowship is helping journalists listen to communities from the ground up

by Nelly Bouevitch on

*Republished from: The Canadian Journalists for Free Expression Credit: AJ Batac, Flickr Earlier this Fall, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) announced Erin Millar, co-founder of Discourse Media, as the inaugural recipient of the new Bob Carty Free Expression Fellowship. CJFE’s support gives our team at Discourse Media the resources to pursue an important project we’re calling the Diversity Source Network and Methodology. Our aim? To help break down barriers…

Possible Canadas: What do young people want Canada to be?

by Nelly Bouevitch on

The past few weeks have been laden with stalemate televised debates and numerous candidates getting kicked off of campaigns for social media faux-pas. In what little debate there has been about larger issues affecting Canada’s future, young people have been routinely left out of the conversation. The youth voter turnout rate is notoriously low and little has been done by any of the political parties to reverse the dire numbers…