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Oil battle rallies Canadian-Ecuadorian community
Canadians know oil and the controversy that follows it as well as they know hockey and poutine. And now that Neil Young’s cross-country tour is supporting a First Nation’s lawsuit against Shell, the flames are being fanned once again. Yet, what many Canadians may not know is that for more than 20 years, indigenous communities…
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Pride House offers safe haven for athletes
What makes a home? A roof over your head or a place where you can let your guard down and be yourself? When New Zealand speed skater Blake Skjellerup arrived in Vancouver, B.C. to compete in the 2010 Olympic Games, he was newly outed, after opening up to his family six months earlier about his…
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Television Journalism Stories
Students in the Graduate Program of Journalism in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western produce stories in all media – video, audio, print and online. Here are a few examples of the visual story telling they did this past year. Jeremy Copeland is the TV journalism instructor for the Journalism Program at Western.…
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Thumbing a ride–online
It’s a night clear enough to see the stars as over 200 strangers light a bonfire and settle in for a good old-fashioned campout. But when they lie on their backs and stare up above them, it’s not the stars they see — it’s the thousands of glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.…