There still may be time: the deadline to nominate a candidate to receive the Paul Yuzyk Award for Multiculturalism is March 1, 2010.   The federal Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism annual award recognizes “individuals who have made exceptional contributions to Canadian multiculturalism and the integration of cultural communities and new Canadians.”
In an interesting spin, the award [...]

As some of you many know, on Tuesday, January 19, DMS President/CEO Lori Abittan will be participating in an upcoming Canadian Journalism Foundation panel, “The Rise of “Ethnic Media”.
One of the other interesting aspects of this panel, is its moderator:  the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) of Ontario’s Public Service (OPS):  Noëlle Richardson.  Some of you [...]

In some ways, the last twelve months feel like one big blur.
It’s difficult to try and capture all of DMS’s accomplishments, but some definite highlights come to mind. 
This year, our main boardroom was the site of over a dozen – many, political – editorial roundtable discussions featuring Federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, Ontario Premier [...]

With 2009 coming to a close, end-of-year lists seem to be on everybody’s mind. So, like last year, below are some of the online “wows” I discovered over the last 12 months.  Limiting this list to nine was daunting, but here’s what I came up with … in no particular ranking:
1. Journalistics Blog – is [...]

As a news consumer, I’ve been finding it a little difficult to reconcile today’s (mainstream) media cycle. Over the last few weeks in particular. To think there once was a time when reporters and journalists would file their work usually to meet one or two deadlines over the course of a day.
Today, there is [...]