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. |
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Dec 06, 2009 at 06:33 PM |
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BY JAVED ZAHEER, HONORARY EDITOR &
FREE EXPRESSION AWARD WINNER TORONTO: With the passage of time and without any doubt, the NEPMCC has emerged very strong, effective and influential and is proving as one of the most powerful platforms and voice of the ethnic community in Canada. |
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Dec 05, 2009 at 06:53 PM |
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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 December 14, 2009 TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE NEPMCC Please be advised that our monthly meeting for December is called as planned for Monday, December 14, 2009. The meeting is called from 6:00 pm to 9:30 at the committee room N#2, main floor, Main legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto On. As the work at the front of the building was concluded, the south entrance door is going to be used effective immediately. Please use it as before. |
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Dec 04, 2009 at 02:01 PM |
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NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA
Conseil national de la press et des medias ethniques du Canada.
Canada’s Other Voices Main Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Committee room N# 2, Toronto.
The meeting is called for 6:00 pm.
1. Welcome Remarks by the Chair 6:00
2. A call to order by the Chair 6:00
3. Minutes
4. Report by the President
6. Annual Get Together
a. Exhibition at City Hall, May 2010
b. Educational Seminar at the Seneca College Campus
7. Motions
a. New Business
b. New Members
8. Adjournment 9:30 |
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Dec 03, 2009 at 09:26 PM |
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Dear President Saras and VP Asha:
At this hour, I send my warm greetings and good wishes to you for successfully hosting the Ministry of Heritage Canada financed and Seneca College coordinated first ever NEPMCC Development and Training Seminar over the last weekend. It was excellent. knowledgeable, skillful and inspiring. I whole heartedly appreciate your endeavor as well as others in making this seminar a great success. The speakers, presenters and all those Seneca College students who helped immensely, I express them my heartiest felicitations and warm greetings as well. |
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Dec 03, 2009 at 09:18 PM |
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Dear Tom, I apologize for not writing sooner to thank you, but upon my return to Vancouver I had a lot of work to catch up on. Let me start by saying that the conference with all of us together was very fruitful, illuminating and informative, both morally and politically. We must now reap the fruit of this event with our experience and collective ideas and presenting ourselves to the government institutions with one grand voice like the roar of a lion and not little voices in the immense bureaucratic jungle that receives no answers. We will speak more about this in the New Year after the Christmas Holiday. Anyway thank you again for the optimal work you did and you can always count on me for moral support. Thank you and talk to you soon and I wish you the best for the Christmas season. Rino Vultaggio
Editor/Publisher
Marcopolo World News |
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Nov 28, 2009 at 05:28 PM |
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BY JAVED ZAHEER, HONORARY EDITOR &
FREE EXPRESSION AWARD WINNER
TORONTO: With the passage of time and without any doubt, the NEPMCC has emerged very strong, effective and influential and is proving as one of the most powerful platforms and voice of the ethnic community in Canada. By providing opportunity, identity and recognition to the Ethnic Media and making it really a powerful force, the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada (NEPMCC) is definitely playing the true leadership role and making the ethnic community proud. Ethnic Media’s tremendous contributions, remarkable achievements, wonderful progress and real success prove this and need proper recognition, acceptance and promotion at the Federal, Provincial and Municipal levels and by all people and communities on the basis of merit and equality. Ethnic Media too is playing very important role in the overall progress of Canada. |
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Nov 27, 2009 at 12:12 AM |
NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COULCIL OF CANADA
Conseil national de la presse et des medias ethniques du Canada
Canada's Other Voices
Office of the President
November 26, 2009
"Annual Get Together Event"
Dear friends and colleagues, brothers and sisters in the ethnic press and media:
Please allow me to express my thanks for a job well done in preparation and execution of the plans for the first educational seminar we organized in cooperation with the Seneca College and York University.
For those of you attended the event, I am sure, agree with me that it was a fantastic and successful event. |
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Nov 26, 2009 at 11:52 PM |
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R e m a r k s By Thomas S. Saras
President and CEO National Ethnic Press and Media Council
at the Gala Dinner November 21, 2009 SENECA COLLEGE Toronto On.
Rt. Hon.Prime Minister Steven Harper, Mr. David Agnew, Ministers Jason Kenney and Peter Ken, Minister Gerry Philipps of the Ontario Government, Mr. Tim Hudat, leader of the official opposition for Ontario, Mr. Dimitris Azemopoulos, Counsel General of Greece to Toronto, members of the diplomatic corps to Toronto, honourable guests of the head table, members of the board of directors of the NEPMCC, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, members of the ethnic press and media of Canada :
It is an honour and a great privilege for me to be welcoming you today to this great function, the first educational professional development conference for the members of the ethnic press of Canada. A historic first in our struggle to gain recognition and our status in this great and liberal country of ours. |
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Nov 24, 2009 at 10:44 PM |
LOCATION/LIEU: MARKHAM, ON
DATE: NOVEMBER 21, 2009
PRIME MINISTER'S REMARKS:
GALA DINNER OF THE ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR
OF THE NATIONAL ETHNIC PRESS AND MEDIA COUNCIL OF CANADA
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RT. HON. STEPHEN HARPER (Prime Minister of Canada): Well, thank you very much, Tom, for your generous introduction and for permission to speak. (LAUGHTER) I want to first of all welcome all of you. Greetings in particular to my colleagues. I want to say hello to Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney, Minister of State for the Americas, Peter Kent, and Members of Parliament Lois Brown, Paul Calandra, Peter Braid and Royal Galipeau. Greetings as well to representatives…go ahead, give them a hand. (APPLAUSE) Greetings as well to representatives, to all the representatives of other governments, including Minister Philips, Opposition Leader Hudak, and of course, Consul General of Greece, Mr. Assemopopulos. Thanks as well to all distinguished guests for being here, including our host, David Agnew, president of Seneca College. |
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Nov 19, 2009 at 08:40 AM |
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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 November 19, 2009 To ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE NEPMCC Dear friends and colleagues, brothers and sisters in the ethnic press and media: We are there. Just a day before the seminar and I want to thank you all for the support and cooperation the project received from all of you. 150 members from all across the Country are coming to Seneca College, Markham Campus, in order to participate in the first educational project for the members of the sector. A galaxy of great political personalities will be with us and many speakers like Justin Trudeau, Bob Ray, Gerry Philipps, Tim Hudak, and the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper will be with us. For the Gala Dinner on Saturday November 21, will be attended by the PM and a number of Cabinet Ministers as is Jason Kenney and Peter Kent along with some MPs of the GTA. |
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