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Karl Nerenberg and Parliamentary Bureau

Parliamentary Bureau: Why support a Karl Nerenberg to head up a Parliamentary Bureau for the rest of us ? Here are seven reasons:, according to Rabble. 2. He speaks the language or more precisely the languages . Karl is fluent and does work in English and French. Plus after a few decades he can decipher political-speak very well. 3. He rocks. Don't take our word for it. He has won a Gemini award, a Best International Documentary Series award from "la communaut des televisions francophones" , a CBC Radio Award for Best New Series C'est la vie , and recently was awarded the Canadian Ethnic Media Association Award for Best Television Documentary 2013 for Never Come Back, a film exploring the persecution of the Roma people in Eastern Europe and their struggles to be accepted as refugees in Canada and Here at .ca we strongly believe that Canada needs more independent reporting coming out of Parliament Hill. In 2011, frustrated with the coverage of Parliament and the Prime Minister Office, we crowdfunded a journalist to report on the Hill for the rest of us. Our readers came through and we sent Karl Nerenberg to do the job. Read his reporting in our Hill Dispatches. Our reporting is not funded by corporations, governments or foundations: we need community support to keep our Parliamentary Office open you can give your support right here, right now . 1. He no newbie. Karl brings 25 years experience, including eight years at the producer of the CBC show The House , to Parliamentary Bureau. He has written scripts for documentary films and long-form television reports for such shows as Le Point and Actuel on Radio Canada television and The Journal on CBC-TV. Karl also founded and, for five years, edited the magazine Federations: What new in federalism worldwide . He knows how to get the scoop. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.