Exploring Theme: "Problems with the Media"

Some outlets questioned Simon’s ability to speak French after an event in Lévis, Que. CBC News: Gov. Gen. Mary Simon’s spouse, former CBC journalist Whit Fraser, is criticizing Quebec media for their coverage of Simon’s French language skills during a trip to the province in late September. In a Facebook post published Friday, Fraser wrote that when...

Makivik Corporation – In 2015, a La Presse newspaper publication published “senselessly documented details surrounding the deaths of Indigenous children and youth from across Quebec, going as far as to publish the portraits of the deceased as well as the circumstances of their death. 144 Inuit are included in the database, titled «LE DRAME IGNORÉ...

TVO – An updated edition of “Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers” by Carmen Robertson, a Scots-Lakota professor who currently holds a Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Visual and Material Culture at Carleton University. Her research centres on contemporary Indigenous arts and on constructions of Indigeneity in popular culture. The...