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Former Toronto Star columnist Desmond Cole, Mi’kmaw lawyer and TMU professor Pam Palmater and journalism professor and novelist Angela Misri are among the conference participants with recent books on sale at Reimagining Political Journalism at Carleton University. [Photo \u00a9 RPJ News Team]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

RPJ News Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carleton\u2019s weekend conference on the future of political journalism featured a range of panelists who\u2019ve authored books in recent months and years \u2014 including bestsellers and national award winners \u2014 that were showcased on site by Ottawa-based Octopus Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just two days before the Friday launch of Reimagining Political Journalism<\/em>, conference panelist Niigaan Sinclair \u2014 author and Winnipeg Free Press<\/em> city columnist \u2014 was named the 2024 winner of the Governor General\u2019s Literary Award for non-fiction for his collection of a year\u2019s worth of newspaper pieces and other writings titled W\u00eenip\u00eak: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sinclair, who also participated in a pre-conference online discussion in June that paved the way to this weekend\u2019s in-person event at Carleton, described the book\u2019s collected articles as a portrait of \u201cthe complexities of this place \u2014 in all of its good, bad, and in-between \u2014 and together suggest that what is found in this little prairie city says a lot about the future of the country it resides in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mission accomplished, concluded the GG awards\u2019 judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winnipeg Free Press city columnist Niigaan Sinclair was recently named as 2024 winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction for his published collection of articles and other writings, W\u00eenip\u00eak: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre. [Photo \u00a9 RPJ News Team]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA deep dive into the city of Winnipeg through the lives and worlds of its original inhabitants, W\u00eenip\u00eak is a necessary and important book: profound, difficult and expansive,\u201d the GG\u2019s peer assessment committee concluded in awarding Sinclair this year\u2019s prize. \u201cNiigaan Sinclair accomplishes the near impossible by creating a compelling and nuanced whole out of a series of newspaper columns. W\u00eenip\u00eak unearths histories of colonial violence, grounded in the wisdom and experiences of those who survived and survive it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sinclair\u2019s new book was just one of about a dozen publications on sale at the conference books table featuring authors who have also engaged in the weekend\u2019s conversations about the present and future of political journalism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Moscrop<\/strong> is a freelance writer, author, and podcaster covering Canadian and US politics. His work has appeared in major news outlets in Canada and around the world, including the Washington Post<\/em>, the Globe and Mail<\/em>, and the Guardian<\/em>. His first book Too Dumb for Democracy? Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones<\/em> was released in 2018. He also runs a popular Substack cleverly titled David Moscrop<\/em>. He lives in Ottawa. Too Dumb for Democracy <\/em>explores why we make disastrous political decisions and whether our stone-age brains are equipped for democracy in the era of social media and relentless news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ottawa-based political columnist David Moscrop is also the author of Too Dumb for Democracy, explores social media and relentless news cycles have led to disastrous decisions by voters. [Photo \u00a9 RPJ News Team]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Desmond Cole<\/strong> is a journalist, activist and author based in Toronto. His work focuses on struggles against state violence, particularly local policing. He has produced works for live news radio, podcasts, magazines, and newspapers in Toronto and across Canada. Desmond\u2019s 2020 book, \u201cThe Skin We\u2019re In, A Year of Black Resistance and Powe<\/em>r,\u201d is a national bestseller. In June of 2024, Desmond received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Ontario Tech University for his work combating anti-Black racism. The Skin We\u2019re In <\/em>punctures the na\u00efve assumptions of Canadians who believe we live in a post-racial nation and reveals in stark detail the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Candis Callison<\/strong> is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, jointly appointed in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. She is the author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts<\/em> (Duke U Press, 2014) and the co-author of Reckoning: Journalism\u2019s Limits and Possibilities<\/em> (Oxford U Press, 2020). Candis is currently working on a long term research project about the role of journalism and media in Arctic and northern regions. She is a member of the T\u0101\u0142t\u0101n Nation and a regular contributor to the podcast, Media Indigena<\/em>. Callison\u2019s book Reckoning<\/em> explores journalism\u2019s longstanding representational harms, arguing that despite thoughtful explorations of the role of publics in journalism, the profession hasn\u2019t adequately addressed matters of gender, race and settler colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Candis Callison is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous journalism, media, and public discourse and an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, and the author of How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts (Duke U Press, 2014) and the co-author of Reckoning: Journalism\u2019s Limits and Possibilities (Oxford U Press, 2020). [Photo \u00a9 RPJ News Team]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Pam Palmater<\/strong> is an award-winning Mikmaw lawyer, Indigenous rights advocate, educator and public speaker from Eel River Bar First Nation. She works through various mediums including podcasts and documentary films. She holds four university degrees, including a doctorate in law focusing on Indigenous rights from Dalhousie University. She was named one of Canada\u2019s Top 25 Movers and Shakers and Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers. She currently serves as professor and chair of Indigenous Governance at Toronto Metropolitan University. Palmater\u2019s book Warrior Life <\/em>explores how unlawful pipelines are being built on Indigenous territories, how the RCMP are making illegal arrests of land defenders on unceded lands and how anti-Indigenous racism permeates the internet. Palmater wades through media misinformation and government propaganda to get at the heart of key issues lost in the noise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duncan McCue<\/strong> is an associate professor at Carleton University\u2019s School of Journalism and Communication and has also been an award-winning CBC broadcaster and leading advocate for fostering the connection between journalism and Indigenous communities, McCue is working with Carleton colleagues to launch a new journalism skills certificate on the ground in Indigenous communities. McCue was with CBC News for 25 years. In addition to hosting CBC Radio One\u2019s Cross Country Checkup, he was a longstanding correspondent for CBC-TV\u2019s flagship news show, The National. His book Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities<\/em>., provides practical advice for students and professional journalists trying to build meaningful relationships with Indigenous communities. His first book, The Shoe Boy<\/em>, is a work of fiction that tells the story of a 17-year-old Anishanabe boy who was raised in the south joins a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carleton University journalism professor Duncan McCue, the longtime CBC broadcaster, is the author of Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous Communities and The Shoe Boy: A Trapline Memoir. [Photo \u00a9 RPJ News Team]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Angela Misri<\/strong> is a Toronto journalist and novelist and an assistant professor of journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University. Angela worked at the CBC for 14 years before becoming the Digital Director for The Walrus. She writes about digital journalism, technology, politics and pop culture for many different media outlets,  including the Globe and Mail, CBC, The Walrus, Global TV, and is the author of seven novels, including 2020\u2019s The Detective and the Spy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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