This thesis reconstructs Indigenous activism in the era of Red Power, 1972-1976, by examining three newspapers, the Native Youth Movement (NYM), The Native Voice (TNV) and The Native People (TNP). By linking these newspapers, the overarching themes…
This article studies the attitude expressed by Winnipeg's Polish language press towards Jews and Ukrainians in the period between World War I and World War II. Both the Catholic Gazette and Czas (Time) responded patriotically to attacks on Polish in…
This article adopts a communication infrastructure model in mapping the flow and meaning of ethnic media in Vancouver and their interaction with local, national, and global conceptions of a public commons. A communication infrastructure consists of a…
Despite setbacks and cutbacks, Canada leads the world in northern and Aboriginal communications. This book provides a comprehensive survey of communications in the circumpolar region, focusing on the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic but also looking at…
In December 1993, during a time of political struggle, four young Cree leaders who disagreed with the way the James Bay Agreement was negotiated founded The Nation, a bi-monthly James Bay Cree newspaper. Born in a society in which journalism hardly…
For several years, the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages has received many complaints about federal institutions’ failure to use the official language minority press when placing advertisements in official language majority newspapers.…
Explains the reasons behind the 25 September 1918 Order-in-Council prohibiting the printing of "any publication in any enemy language," with special emphasis on German language newspapers in Western Canada, including 'Der Nordwesten' and 'Der…