Category Archives: Canadian conversations

How do we talk about success in childhood?

by Daniel Stahl on

The case for deeper reporting on education in Canada The Canadian education system faces some serious challenges. But most media outlets fail to report on those problems, Discourse Media found in our new landscape analysis, “How do we talk about success in childhood?” Reporting on education in Canada is often driven by conflicts or by political funding discussions. But the people interviewed in the landscape analysis highlight other important issues.…

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…