Canada: Clout

Ethnic Press Dept: The ethnic press also wields clout inside the Prime Minister's Office, where, more than ever, the industry is viewed as a coveted conduit to the multicultural vote, according to CTV. The man who represents 540 of the publications says many of these editors scrape by on tiny budgets and still have a lot to learn about Canada and while minority-language publications remain anonymous to most Canadians, their combined readership is in the millions -- more than the country's largest daily newspapers. Canada's ethnic newspapers and magazines -- often one-person operations typed up in the homes of recent immigrants -- are now hoping to raise their game even higher. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.