Over the first months of COVID, we saw some reporting that was problematic in the ways it talked about people who use drugs and CERB.
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As the coronavirus pandemic began to unfold, myself and two researchers saw that the effects of it and the efforts to control it were being distributed unequally. We know that front-line, community-based organizations (CBOs) are often the first point of contact for, and provide essential supports and services to people who are in states of emergency, using drugs, or struggling in different ways.
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In partnership with the Winnipeg Peer Working Group of the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network, I created a document for the media to help them frame the way they talk about people who use drugs when they write about them, as well as a checklist for a stigma free story.
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This panel brings together harm reduction workers, community members, academics, reporters and producers for a discussion about how meth and the people who use it are portrayed in the media.
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This magazine shares the work the Manitoba Research Association has been involved in for the past ten plus years in ways it hasn't been shared before.
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To further the conversations started by the Maclean’s article calling Winnipeg the most racist city in Canada and an article in the Guardian talking about our racist divide, I organized a panel discussion with members of the media and Indigenous community members including Niigan Sinclair, Shannon Buck, Rosanna Deerchild, Damon Johnston, and Bartley Kives.
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