WACC and the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) on May 20 highlighted the need to provide migrants with life-saving, culturally-sensitive information as well as communication tools during a side...
Saying that the world is at a critical juncture — with challenges posed by the climate crisis, divisiveness, and other social issues — Cree Elder Doreen Spence writes in the...
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Media Development 2022-2
Celebrating Canada's Indigenous Media
Recognising and implementing communication rights is a crucial first step towards bringing about...
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...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...