New Canadian Media and Ethnic Media Diversity

Canadian media: New Canadian Media, a news site dedicated to Canadian immigrants, recently released its Ethnic Media & Diversity Style Guide, according to NOW Magazine. Their coordinators did not feel it was necessary to acknowledge the humanity of Black people by capitalizing the B. Capitalize the proper names of nationalities, peoples, races and tribes," the guide reads. "Ex. But according to Canadian media, I’m just an adjective – a descriptor, a colour, 'black’ not ‘Black.’You see, in all of the inches written about Black Lives Matter Toronto and Black people in Canada, from CBC to the Toronto Star to Maclean to NOW Magazine, the 'B' in ‘Black people’ is always in lowercase. Aboriginal peoples, Arab, Caucasian, French-Canadian, Inuit, Jew, Latin, Negro, Asian, Cree. The Canadian Press Style Book, the journalist bible, advises the same: "black ."‘Negro' is a pejorative name for Black people, and not the name that Black people use to identify themselves. Note that black and white do not name races and are therefore lowercase. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.