What if everyone had the empathy, access to sophisticated information and imagination to engage in dialogue about complex issues and take action? 

Possible Canadas fellowship

In fall 2015, Discourse Media created the Possible Canadas Fellowship in partnership with the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. We worked with 10 exceptional student journalists from western Canada who collaboratively reported on the federal election with the aim of engaging their campus communities. Go to Possible Canadas to explore the results of their reporting.

Past Possible Canadas fellows:

Arno Rosenfeld, University of British Columbia

Michael Scoular, University of the Fraser Valley

Christopher Adams, University of Calgary

Michaela Slinger, Quest University

Chandler Walter, Langara College

Josie Lukey, Mount Royal University

Kate Black, University of Alberta

Alexander Kim, University of British Columbia

Kevin Rey, Simon Fraser University

Meet the fellows.

Access to Energy Journalism Fellowship

The Access to Energy Journalism Fellowship (AEJF) awarded nine fellowships to journalists around the world to support their work investigating energy access in their region.

Past AEJF fellows:

Fabiola Ortiz, IPS
In Costa Rica and Mexico, will a geothermal experiment overcome the industry’s dark past?
Mike Ives, SciDev
Why the South Pacific island Kiribati is making a big bet on solar

Andrew Mambondiyani, The Zimbabwean
In Zimbabwe, a struggle between climate change and energy poverty
Faisal Mahmud, The Independent
A solar revolution is bringing light and opportunity to the Bangladesh countryside

Felix Gaedtke, Al Jazeera
In Transylvania, energy poverty persists in the developed world
Elias Ntungwe Ngalame, Thomson Reuters Foundation
How solar energy is helping Cameroon tackle poverty

Deepak Adhikari, Republica English Daily
Can Nepal defeat its deepening energy crisis?
Christopher Pollon, The Tyee
One northern Canadian town’s four-decade battle to ditch diesel

Eric Bombicino, TVO
Why a northern Canadian community’s hopes for the future rest on one power line

Meet the fellows.