News Update:

June 24, 2008

The Centre for Culture and Communities has been gratified by the response this pilot study of BC Ethnic Media has obtained. Media infrastructure for Multicultural Diversity is an important topic and public understanding of it needs to be broadened.

We are endebted to The Honourable Joan Fraser, Senate of Canada for drawing our attention to the following:

The members of the Transport and Communications Committee of the Senate of Canada consulted extensively with representatives from ethnic media and groups as may be found in Volume 2 ( pages 32-35) of the Future of Canadian News Media report. It also commissioned a content study of some foreign-language Canadian newspapers. In particular, the final report recommended publications assistance for the start up of new magazines, and that ethnic media similarly would benefit from publication of the identity of controlling shareholders, and strengthening procedures to determine whether a periodical is Canadian for income tax purposes.

May 20, 2008 Catherine Murray

 

June 4 - 6, 2008
Urban Mediascapes and Multicultural Flows:  Vancouver's Communication Infrastructure
Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, University of British Colombia. To read more about this news go to the Press Room.

 

June 4 - 6, 2008
Cultural Diversity and Media Diversity: Challenges and Prospects
Annual Conference of the Canadian Communication Association, University of British Colombia. To read more about this news go to the Press Room.

 

Feb. 13, 2008
News Release from the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council. To read more about this news go to the Press Room.

 

January 15, 2008
The minority report: What are we reading in B.C.?

Find another story about the BC Ethnic Media Study in The Source's new year special edition. Read the story here...

 

January 14, 2008

After receiving feedbacks from some of our local ethnic media outlets up to January 14, 2008, four new entries (Punjabi Star, Voz Lusitana, Canadian Immigrant, Swedish Press) have been added to the directory.

Appendix of the final report has been updated upon request up to December 31, 2007.  Thank you for your continuous support. New updates will be added to the website only.

 

December 11, 2007

The recently released 2006 Census on Language, Immigration and Citizenship, and Mobility and Migration (December 4, 2007) confirm the growing presence of ethnic population in Vancouver.

- From 1996 to 2006, the population of Vancouver grew by 284,916 (from 1,831,665 to 2,116,581).

- 4 out of every 10 people are immigrants.

- 4 out of every 10 people have a non-official language as a mother tongue.

- 3 out of every 10 people speak non-official language at home (547,660 out of 2,097,965).

- Among the non-official languages, Chinese is most spoken at home (47%) followed by Punjabi (16%) and Korean (7%)

The project team will wait until April 2008 for the release of Ethnic Origin and Visible Minorities data and revise the publication accordingly. Thank you for your patience.