The Conversation Canada

Don't miss this compelling piece by Maria Cheung of University of Manitoba and Kawser Ahmed of The University of Winnipeg that delves into how members of diaspora communities are affected by foreign interference. This analysis is part of our collaboration with The Green Line, a Toronto news outlet that investigates the way Torontonians live to help young and underserved citizens thrive, and its ongoing series on issues confronting diaspora communities. Read the story below:

🌸 🌺 Just in time for spring: OISE alum Jacqueline L. Scott, a current doctoral candidate, sat down with podcast 'Don't Call Me Resilient' to discuss the colonial roots of gardening. https://bit.ly/44Iskgm via The Conversation Canada

Great turnout for a session at Western University today, with Editor-in-Chief Scott White, Science + Technology Editor Nehal El-Hadi (joining virtually) and a wide range of #WesternU academics with so many great ideas that we will turn into interesting stories for The Conversation Canada: https://lnkd.in/dNwySxUd

Don't miss this insightful piece written by Susitha Wanigaratne, PhD, a senior research associate at the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children at the University of Toronto, on the socioeconomic and health-care challenges facing immigrant and diasporic communities — and how more electoral participation could help. This analysis is part of our collaboration with The Green Line, a Toronto news outlet that investigates the way Torontonians live to help young and underserved citizens thrive in a rapidly changing city. https://lnkd.in/gQkDdJt9

Many fearless Palestinian voices have been reporting on the war in Gaza through their own social media channels and through partnerships with some news organizations. These are people like Motaz Azaiza, Hind Khoudary, Bisan Owda and Plestia Alaqad. But their narratives struggle to find resonance in western newsrooms. On this week's episode of Don't Call Me Resilient, host Vinita Srivastava is joined by associate professors of journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University, Sonya Fatah and Asmaa Malik. Together they discuss the complexities of media bias and the quashing of Palestinian voices in western newsrooms. We delve deep into the core of journalism – its power, its biases, and its potential for change. The allegations against western media raise a lot of questions. What is the role of the news media in reporting on war and conflict in other countries? Who is a reliable source? And what constitutes independent and objective journalism — or does it even exist? Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gdYznXTi #GazaCrisis #MediaRepresentation #PressFreedom #Podcast #DontCallMeResilient

Attention #DontCallMeResilient listeners in Vancouver! Join us for a live recording of the podcast next week with host Vinita Srivastava in conversation with Karrmen Crey, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University and author of ‘Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada.’ The event is next Tuesday, April 23, (doors at 6:30pm, events at 7:00pm) at Iron Dog Books (2671 E Hastings St, Vancouver, British Columbia V5K 1Z5). Copies of Karrmen’s book will be available to buy and get signed! Link to register: bit.ly/dcmrlive Hope to see you there!

🎧 Dive into the complexities of refugee policy in Canada with episode 5 of season 7 of #DontCallMeResilient. Host Vinita Srivastava is joined by Christina Clark-Kazak from University of Ottawa as she sheds light on prejudiced policies faced by asylum seekers from Gaza and Sudan. #DontCallMeResilient #Gaza #Podcast https://lnkd.in/gQjhUxWR

🎙️ Just dropped! Don't Call Me Resilient! 🎧 dives into Beyoncé's groundbreaking new album, Cowboy Carter. From country to 90s pop to 70s rock, this genre-defying work honours other Black musical legends, and challenges the segregation we still see and hear in the music industry today. Today’s episode gets into all of it, with two expert scholars  who were also personally awaiting this album's drop. Featuring SongData Jada Watson who intimately knows the country charts and Alexis McGee, author of From Blues to Beyoncé. Listen now! https://lnkd.in/danjw9mP #DontCallMeResilient Vinita Srivastava

"If carbon pricing via taxation is the mainstream, what would be a truly radical approach to the climate crisis?" In The Conversation Canada, UVic Philosophy professor Peter Dietsch discusses Bill C-372's proposed ban on fossil fuel advertising: https://ow.ly/6Ixe50QYcs4

According to economist Amartya Sen, famine is a function of repression. It springs from the politics of food distribution rather than a lack of food. On today’s episode of Don’t Call Me Resilient, we unpack how for centuries, starvation has been effectively used by colonial powers to control populations, to acquire land and the wealth that comes with that. Host Vinita Srivastava is joined by scholars James Daschuk, associate professor at University of Regina and Janam Mukherjee, associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. They discuss the decimation of Indigenous populations in the Plains of North America –  and the 1943 famine that took three million lives in Bengal, India, which was then under British rule.   Tune in now to listen to how starvation has been used as a tool of oppression in the colonial “playbook”. #DontCallMeResilient #FamineHistory #Podcast https://lnkd.in/dyEytZqA