This fourth edition of our special project, “Bridging the Mainstream-Ethnic Digital Divide in COVID-19 Literacy,” focuses on the economic impacts of the pandemic on immigrants and visible minorities, as covered in ethnic media in comparison to mainstream media.
View More What an Inclusive Recovery from the COVID-19 “Economic Firestorm” Could Look Like
This third edition of our special project “Bridging the Mainstream-Ethnic Digital Divide in COVID-19 Literacy” focuses on the unique challenges faced by temporary residents, migrant workers, asylum seekers and international students.
View More About “Cheap Immigrant Labour” and Student “Cash Cows”
Remarks by the Election Commissioner, Yves Coté, on the potential for foreign meddling, also received coverage in Chinese
View More ‘Foreign Meddling’ in Election? No Big Deal for Ethnic Media
In at least one instance, an ethnic media organization weighed in with commentary wondering why it has taken the government so long to wake up
View More Multicultural Media Sound Alarm Over ‘Fake News’
Leading the charge for the Italian community is none other than former Liberal federal immigration minister Joe Volpe
View More Liberal Battle in Montreal Riding Pits Old Guard Against Ascendant CommunityIf you’ve ever travelled or worked abroad, speaking and listening in a language that isn’t your own, you know the feeling of lying down at night exhausted. Your brain worked all day fumbling from one…
View More Canada’s (M)other TonguesInside the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market on Halifax’s waterfront you’ll find a stack of the Dakai Times newspapers. Printed in Chinese and English, the quarterly newspaper is a tiny nod to the growing immigrant population…
View More Ethnic Media in Nova Scotia: A Niche Need Waiting to be FilledCanada’s commitment to send troops to Latvia to strengthen NATO in its stance vis-à-vis Russia has reverberated in the ethnic media with at least 55 stories over the last two weeks. Most reports were in…
View More Nuanced Reporting on Canada’s NATO Commitment in Latvia
On Friday, Mar. 4, I attended the 18th National Metropolis Conference, hungry for new information and curious to find out whether my area of expertise – ethnic media – was covered. The forum subtitled “Getting…
View More Ethnic Media – a Missed Topic of the Metropolis Conference 2016The refugee crisis in Germany has flooded the media with coverage on the diverse aspects of the situation, from negotiations among European nations about refugee flows, registration and distribution to the logistics of housing the…
View More Syrian Refugee Crisis in Europe – Implications for Canada