Our privilege and duty is to seek and publish the truth, defend free speech and the right to equal treatment under law, capture the diversity of human experience, speak for the voiceless and engage civic debate in order to build our communities and serve the public interest.
Welcome to the new website of National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada - NEPMCC.
The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada is a non-profit organization established since 1958 (formerly Canada Ethnic Press Federation) whose mission is to promote and integrate economic, social and culture interest of ethnic communities into the mainstream of Canadian society. For more than seven decades the ethnic newspapers have been meeting the challenges of assistance, guidance and integration of millions of newcomers who have immigrated to Canada from many lands. It performed this role in full awareness of a great responsibility towards a country which has been developed by many cultural and linguistic groups.
With the influx of immigrants over the years, both the duties and the influence of the ethnic press in Canada have multiplied. Four hundred newspapers and magazines today are published all over Canada, serving more than twelve million Canadians from all over the world, including those who have been here for a generation or more but still retain the habit of reading papers in their own heritage language.
In addition to educating those who have come here to make Canada their home about settlement issues and available assistance, the ethnic press also helped them to be introduced to the democratic institutions and the new way of living. Canada, today, is in a period of socio-economic changes in a world that is rapidly becoming more internationally- oriented, looking for new markets and searching for new partnerships. In this connection, the ethnic press and the communities they serve can prove to be an important participant in the Canadian economic growth because of their ability to speak all the languages of the world, their global contacts and their global knowledge.
Through the years, the NEPMCC creates platforms of discussions with three levels of government, private and public sectors to foster and promote better understanding of the diverse ethnic groups in Canada.
Meeting Monday MAY 11th, 2009 at Queen’s Park, Toronto On. Main Legislature Building, Committee room # 2 From 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM.
1. Welcome Remarks by the Chair 2. A Call to Order by the Chair 3. Minutes of the Last Meeting 4. Introduction of the Hon. Michael Ignatieff 5. Questions and answers 6. Introduction of Rob Andrusevich (City of Toronto) 7. President’s Report 8. Committee members Reports 9. New Business/ community reports 10. End of the Meeting
NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA Conseil national de la presse et des medias ethniques du Canada Canada’s Other Voices
Office of the President
April 30, 2009 A letter from the President Dear friends and colleagues, brothers and sisters in the Ethnic Press and Media: As I explained to all of you in my previous letter, I am looking to receive from all the members of the council first their full address and second a small bio (no more than five lines) in order to be placed first in our web site and secondly to be submitted in the ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations.
NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA - NEPMCC ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE MEMBERS AND ELECTIONS FOR THE RENEWAL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Minutes of the Monthly Meeting held on March 9, 2009 at Queen’s Park, Committee Room #2, Main Legislative Building, Toronto
PRESS RELEASE [IMPORTANT] To all the members of the Ethnic Press and media of Canada
Dear friends and colleagues, brothers and sisters in the ethnic Press and media:
It is with real pleasure and satisfaction that I am in a position to inform you, today, that the Department of Canadian Heritage has accepted our application and approved the funding for the second phase of our project for the professional development of our members.
NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA Conseil national de la presse et des medias ethniques du Canada Canada’s Other Voices. Office of the President
January 23, 2009
To Hon. Michael Ignatieff, M.P. Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada House of Commons Ottawa K1A OA5
Happy New Year from the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada
Dear friends and Colleagues, brothers and Sisters in the Ethnic Press and Media: Taking the opportunity of the 1st day of the New Year 2009, I want to express, on behalf of the members of the organization and also the members of the board of Directors, our best wishes and hopes for good health, happiness and success to all of you during the 2009. ...
TORONTO: With the change in Liberal’s leadership from Stephane Dione to Michael Ignatief, a positive change in approach and policy has been witnessed and that is of 'Listening' and 'Exchanges' with all...
Dear friends and Colleagues, Brothers and Sisters in the Ethnic Press and Media: As the year is drawing to its end I want to thank you all for the trust and support we received from all of you during the 2008. It was a very successful year and your organization had the opportunity to promote the sector with the first ever exhibition of the Ethnic Press and Media at the Toronto City Hall. Thousand of people visited the exhibition and we received the best comments about the ethnic media and their achievements. ...
TORONTO: The bells are ringing and people are singing and rejoicing. Guess? Yes, it’s Merry Christmas time. Every year on the 25th of December, Christmas is celebrated in almost all parts of the world by the peace loving Christians. On this auspicious day, Prophet Jesus (PBUH) was born with a message of goodwill for the humanity and to lead people towards The Almighty. ...
