Canadian Heritage committee  It's an isolating experience to be the only one in your newsroom. It can be a lonely and difficult challenge whenever you expose the problems that you're going through and you're either gaslighted or outright ignored. This is a big part of the reason we're here today to speak abo

Canadian Heritage committee  A lot of companies were quick to note that there has been progress in terms of equity around gender parity. That has not worked out well for Black people, especially for Black women. In the end, gender parity just meant more white men and more white women. We still have not seen

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks for the question. I will just start by saying it is sometimes a bit frustrating to still have to justify the need for more racial equity in this industry. It is frustrating for us to still have to be talking about why newsrooms and this industry overall needs to be more r

Canadian Heritage committee  What I will say is that we encounter a lot of young, Black journalists in the work that we do. Our concern is that with what they encounter as they enter the industry, or the barriers they face that keep them from getting into the industry, they're just not going to want to enter

Canadian Heritage committee  Thanks so much for the question. This year and in years past, we have heard Black journalists share the stories of what they have experienced in the newsroom. Within the context of our work at the CABJ, we have been hearing from Black journalists whose stories were either buried

Canadian Heritage committee  We would definitely welcome any kind of stronger language that would ensure that if some incident of racism in the newsroom surfaces, Black journalists have some kind of assurance that it would be dealt with in a way that's a lot more meaningful than how it has been dealt with in

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, this is data from Statistics Canada, which they released in 2018, I believe. The population doubled from just around 500,000 or so in 1996 to nearly 1.2 million.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's right.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Simms. On January 28, 2020, the Canadian Association of Black Journalists issued a call to action. Joining forces with Canadian Journalists of Colour, we released a document outlining seven steps this industry must take in order to improve—

Canadian Heritage committee  As we mentioned then, there has not been research on Canadian newsroom demographics since the mid-2000s. This should serve as a testament to how much this industry has been held accountable when it comes to racial equity. The only statistics I can point to today are from a decade