What makes Canadian immigrant life real? The cultural quirks, the fun amidst everyday struggles, the multi-generational adjustments? “Kim’s Convenience” has been all this and more. As the curtain falls on a show loved by people around the world, NCM looks at what makes “Kim’s” special and why shows like that should be the norm rather than the exception.
View More Fans Bid Tearful Adieu to “Kim’s Convenience”
CBC reporter Salimah Shivji discusses her experience as a foreign correspondent in India in an interview with NCM.
View More “I am itching to get back to India soon,” says CBC’s Salimah Shivji
Race relations activists and observers say it is time to take off the masks that prevent people from acknowledging that systemic racism exists and police brutality happens.
View More Challenging Views on Systemic Racism, Police Brutality in Canada
The last time anybody studied the demographics of Canadian newsrooms was in 2004. It showed that only 3.4 per cent of reporters were non-white, writes the author of the study, editor and academic John Miller
View More Canadian Media Incapable of Covering Race
When Carleton University asked reporter Judy Trinh to give a talk on diversity in the journalism industry to students in the journalism and communications program, she said yes. She suspected why the university had asked…
View More A Less-than-Diverse Media WorkforceWhen you turn on your TV, answer your cell phone or read an advertisement online, chances are more and more likely that the same company is behind all three services. By both historical standards and…
View More Niche, Ethnic Media Struggle to Compete
Welcome to the debate about the debates. The world of federal election leaders’ debates as we know it went kaboom last week, when the Conservatives walked away from an understanding with the Big Three television…
View More Harper’s Debate Move Opens New Avenues for Media CoverageIn the early ’90s, Ryerson University professor emeritus John Miller conducted a study on the visual representation of minority groups in Canadian newspapers. He looked at which section photos appeared in, how many featured people…
View More How Stats and Hiring Strategies Can Help Address Newsroom Diversity
Is politics ‘broken’? For a growing number of Canadians, the answer appears to be ‘yes’ – and there may not be an easy fix. The CBC posed this question during its inaugural ‘CBC Asks’ public…
View More Canada Earns ‘C’ for Political Engagement
Imagine the shock I felt when I looked at a document that was sent to me this year: a photocopy from a register in British Columbia’s archives listing Adrienne Louise Poy, age nine, female, together with the rest of…
View More Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship