Media, Bill C-18, and Indigenous inclusion

Bill C-18 assumes that Indigenous storytelling is only for the Indigenous community. That’s like saying Tanya Talaga’s books can only be read by Indigenous Peoples, or that APTN’s contribution is only for Indigenous communities. Come on people, it’s not 1991 anymore.

Indigenous men, pictured drumming at a ceremony at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in Ottawa on Aug. 30, 2022. Indigenous storytelling follows cultural protocols about how all things are connected through time and space, writes Rose LeMay. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

May 1, 2023

OTTAWA—Bill C-18: An Act Respecting Online Communications Platforms that Make News Content Available to Persons in Canada, or the Online News Act, is expected to replace the archaic system of funding of news organizations from 1991. It was written in another time...

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