Maritimes

PORT HAWKESBURY - In a milestone for Telile Community Television's participation in the Local Journalism Initiative (LJI) as overseen by the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS), the work of an LJI journalist was quoted extensively in a front-page story published by one of the longest-running weekly newspapers in Cape Breton Island. It was and is an important topic for Nova Scotians - the imposition of a carbon tax on petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and home heating oil.

WINNIPEG - U-Multicultural TV has recently hired Yuliia Kovalenko, who fled from Ukraine shortly after the war started. As a journalist, hired under he Local Journalist Initiative of Heritage Canada and run by Cactus (the Association of Community Television Users and Stations), she enhances the impact of local journalism in her new city of Winnipeg.