October 15, 2022 - It started with a few pointed questions to current Town Council members during their interviews with the new show The Decision Makers, and grew into a public conversation about how well the make-up of the Neepawa Town Council reflects the diversity of the community. NACTV continued to pursue the topic in on-camera conversations with local community members as well as in the community itself, digging into what barriers exist to broader participation in local politics. Some of them will be surmountable in time, such as the requirement for citizenship to fully participate, but others turned out to just need a little bit more information going out into the community about how and where people's voices could be heard. That was a mission that the station well happy to help fulfill, and the community took it from there. When the nominations were announced for the upcoming municipal election, we learned that at last we have our first Filipina candidate.
While the results of the election won't be known until after October 26, regardless of the result, this is an important step in the health and growth of the community and it is at least in part thanks to the work our local journalist is doing in the community.
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LJI Impact is the section of commediaportal.ca where the journalists and their organizations participating in CACTUS' Local Journalism Initiative can share their greatest successes.
Through the written stories, photos and videos you see in the LJI Impact section, you'll be able to read first hand accounts about how the presence of a community journalist is making a difference in communities across Canada through the Local Journalism Initiative and the Community Media Portal.
The Community Media Portal is a gateway to the audio-visual media created by community media centres across Canada. These include traditional community TV and radio stations, as well as online and new media production centres.
Community media are not-for-profit production hubs owned and operated by the communities they serve, established both to provide local content and reflection for their communities, as well as media training and access for ordinary citizens to the latest tools of media production, whether traditional TV and radio, social and online media, virtual reality, augmented reality or video games.
The Community Media Portal has been funded by the Local Journalism Initiative (the LJI) of the Department of Canadian Heritage, and administered by the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) in association with the Fédération des télévisions communautaires autonomes du Québec (the Fédération). Under the LJI, over 100 journalists have been placed in underserved communities and asked to produce civic content that underpins Canadian democratic life.
