Will it happen again? Will someone portrayed on-screen by Aboriginal actor Adam Beach be quickly dispensed with, leaving us next to no time to really know his character? According to our guest this week, it's been somet...
2016-08-12 07:03:50 +0000 UTC View PostWhen loved ones die, there’s no question who suffers most—their families. And of those who pushed hardest for the newly-launched National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls<...
2016-08-05 03:46:31 +0000 UTC View Post
According to the WHO, food security is “when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.” In Canada's north, food access and affordability are critical issues—for many Indigenous communities in particular—and government su...
2016-07-29 14:21:56 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on the program: Inaction on the Indian Act. Derided for
decades, it’s hung in there as one of Canada’s oldest laws. Now there
are hints from the federal Justice Minister that its days could be
numbered... just not right away. Joining us with her thoughts on the
delayed ...
After an epic editing session, I am proud to share the latest MEDIA INDIGENA podcast, which is, hands down, one of my favorite conversations as a journalist—ever. For the next 40 minutes, listen to broadcaster Jesse Wente hold court on the personal and political impacts of Indigenous interactions...
2016-07-17 00:32:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Fresh off our week at the Podcast Movement conference in Chicago, the team behind MEDIA INDIGENA 'checks in' on our progress 18 weeks into the show. We share our experiences, lessons and successes—including our ultimate, larger vi...
2016-07-12 19:53:07 +0000 UTC View PostA new report out of Ontario paints a disturbing picture of the disparity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal families when it comes to rates of investigation and removal of children. Sadly, it's a situation all too common across Canada. We hear what the executive director of an Aboriginal-run chil...
2016-07-01 02:17:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This week: the fight for funding of Indigenous languages. Despite the best efforts of the Canadian government to wipe out the roughly 60 Aboriginal languages in this part of the world (what some call deliberate linguicide) those ancestral tongues are not yet stilled. But this is no time for com...
2016-06-26 20:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostQuick note to let you know this week's episode of mediaINDIGENA, all about Indigenous public health, is now ready for your listening pleasure! Thanks to Alycia Fridkin and Nancy Laliberte for being my awesome guests. We recorded our conversation on-site in Toronto at Public Health 16, the annual con...
2016-06-16 20:25:50 +0000 UTC View Post
"Contaminated, hard to access or toxic." According to a new
report, that’s what all too many First Nations endure when it comes to safe, quality drinking water—in some cases, for decades...
2016-06-09 00:25:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's episode has just dropped: an update on the coroner's inquest into a series of Indigenous student deaths in the Northwestern Ontario city of Thunder Bay.
Our guest is Jody Porter, a journalist with CBC Thunder Bay who's covered this story for years, including the inquest.
Listen now:
Quick note to say that episode 11 of MEDIA INDIGENA is now posted for your on-demand listening pleasure! See if you noticed a little twist to the format this time around. Here's the synopsis: This week we take a long look at a provocative poll recently published by the Washington Post abou...
2016-05-24 08:19:14 +0000 UTC View PostTo the supporters of MEDIA INDIGENA: A note such as this is long overdue from us and, I must confess, will be way too short. But know that it will not be the last: it shall be followed up in reasonably quick succession by more messages, and on a more regular basis. Some 11 weeks into the podcast,...
2016-05-21 21:11:02 +0000 UTC View Post