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18 May 2022 Media Development 2022-2 online magazine and pdf

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] [caption id="attachment_44530" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2022/2[/caption] Media Development 2022-2 Celebrating Canada's Indigenous Media Recognising and implementing communication rights is a crucial first step towards bringing about mutual respect, greater understanding, and the possibility of reconciliation vis-à-vis the Indigenous peoples of Canada. View...

18 May 2022 MD 2022/2 Editorial

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It is indisputable – from archaeological evidence but also from mitochondrial DNA – that people had already crossed into what we now call North America some 22,000 to 25,000 years ago. That’s at least 21,000 years before Norse explorers set foot on the continent and...

18 May 2022 Communication rights for Indigenous People: A call to action

Posted at 11:28h in Media Development 2022/2

[caption id="attachment_44636" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Doreen Spence (left) mentoring at the United Nations. Photo credit Beatrice Weyrich.[/caption] Doreen Spence Acknowledgement: I am from Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta. I would like to honour my ancestors and our traditional ways of being. My sacred name interpreted from Cree...

18 May 2022 Overcoming mistrust and mis-representation: The challenge for Canadian journalists

Posted at 11:27h in Media Development 2022/2

Marites N. Sison In 2015, Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released the findings of its six-year investigation into the history and impacts of the country’s residential school system for Indigenous children, which operated for nearly 165 years. The report included “94 Calls to Action” in...

18 May 2022 Canada’s Act Respecting Indigenous Languages

Posted at 11:26h in Media Development 2022/2

Assembly of First Nations In Canada, Bill C-91, an Act Respecting Indigenous languages, became law on June 21, 2019. The legislation was co-developed by the Department of Canadian Heritage and the three national Indigenous organizations: the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)...

18 May 2022 An Indigenous peoples’ approach to climate justice

Posted at 11:25h in Media Development 2022/2

Deborah McGregor Climate change has been identified as the “defining issue of our time” by many of the world’s leading experts and the diagnosis of planetary health is dire. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has concluded that goals for achieving sustainability “cannot be...

18 May 2022 Professional training and empowerment for Indigenous communicators in Canada

Posted at 11:24h in Media Development 2022/2

Shannon Avison The Indian Communication Arts (INCA) program was one of the first programs at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (SIFC) which, when it was established in 1976, was the first Indian-controlled post-secondary institution in Canada. Forty years later, our name has changed to Indigenous Communication...

18 May 2022 Twenty films that opened the eyes of Canada

Posted at 11:23h in Media Development 2022/2

Philip Lee Why is it important to have fair and balanced representations in film, TV, and popular media? Because otherwise they can have a negative impact on people’s perceptions of others, especially women and minorities. Studies show that audiences substitute stereotypes they see on screen for...

18 May 2022 Making a Decade of Action for Indigenous Languages

Posted at 11:22h in Media Development 2022/2

UNESCO The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the period between 2022 and 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL 2022-2032), to draw global attention to the critical situation of many indigenous languages. The proclamation of an International Decade was a key outcome of the 2019...

18 May 2022 De los derechos públicos a los privilegios privados

Posted at 11:21h in Media Development 2022/2

Leonardo D. Félix Uno de los temas más recurrentes en Argentina en los últimos 20 años, en el área de comunicación en tanto servicio y derecho humano básico, está relacionado con la larga y valiosa construcción y lucha colectiva de más de 400 organizaciones (de la...