Category: Indigenous issues

Choosing to talk with cancer

Senior CBC reporter Jody Porter is drawing on multiple sources of energy to help navigate her own cancer diagnosis. Among them, family, a new dog and the strength witnessed from countless women she’s encountered over her more than twenty years as a journalist in Canada.

In a RRJ exclusive, veteran Indigenous reporter Jody Porter reflects on the strength she’s found in the women she’s met, and how cancer has caused change

When reconciliation talks arrive at j-school

First-year journalism students at the College of the North Atlantic don orange for Orange Shirt Day, an annual event that recognizes the harm of residential schools in Canada. (

Journalism student Tyler Mugford and his first-year teacher Jonathan Crowe talk deep on residential schools

Charged journalist says Canadian press freedom still under attack

Justin Brake appears in a video on the YouTube channel for the Independent. Brake is facing charges relating to his coverage of an occupation of the Muskrat Falls construction site in Oct. 2016. (Courtesy the Independent)

As anti-Muskrat Falls demos pop-up across Canada, Justin Brake says he’s still being “dragged through the courts” for Labrador coverage.

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