Monthly Archives: June 2016
Canadian Journalism Foundation recognizes innovative collaboration and data work on Moving Forward project Discourse Media co-founder and CEO Erin Millar, director of business development Debbie Douez and academic collaborator George Poulos. TORONTO, ONT. — Discourse Media is the winner of the 2016 Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) Innovation Award for our work on Moving Forward! The win was announced at the CJF awards gala in Toronto, Ont. on June 16, 2016. Discourse Media’s…
Six-week investigation found no evidence of meeting in First Nation where B.C. government claims community voted 244 to three in favour of LNG development proposal, and raises questions about whether legal obligation to “free, prior and informed consent” was achieved LAX KW’ALAAMS, B.C. — Despite B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s repeated claim that the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation voted in favour of a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on Lelu Island in…
What is journalism doing to carry out reconciliation with Indigenous peoples? This was the question I was invited to ponder earlier this month at “Reconciliation Journalism,” a conference sponsored and hosted by the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation on Wasan Island, Ont. But what are Indigenous people doing to understand journalism? That is my overriding thought after attending. The small conference brought together journalists, academics and community activists to discuss and…
In a recent post for the Toronto Star, Ry Moran of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation asked, “What makes us Canadian?” “From beer commercials to first-year political science classes, this question has echoed throughout much of our history. For many years, we carefully built the narrative that we are a peace-loving peoples — true, north, strong, and free. We are these things. I believe that. But we are…
