By Canadian Press

New tool launched to shine light on ethnic media coverage of election issues

Jun 18, 2019 | 1:06 AM

OTTAWA — A new tool launching today will help voters learn what federal issues are resonating in ethnic media and the potential effect on voting in this fall’s election.

Andrew Griffith, a former director general with the Immigration Department, has partnered with Mirems — a firm that monitors and translates stories from over 800 ethnic media outlets.

Together, they created a website called Diversityvotes.ca, that ties comprehensive statistics about Canada’s minority communities with ethnic media stories.

Griffith says the data will provide riding-by-riding context about who is consuming multi-lingual news stories and quantify how their opinions could influence individual races.

Andres Machalski, president of Mirems, says he hopes the initiative will allow new and native-born Canadians to have a better understand the political issues being discussed and how they resonate among different ethnic groups.

Appeal denied

Fishermen fails to get fine cut for damaging Sunshine Coast violations

1h ago

fight

One injured, another arrested after fight breaks out near Nanaimo high school football game

5h ago

spiked drinks

Watch your drinks: Nanaimo RCMP investigating spiked drink incident

6h ago

The two creators say it could also shine a light on politicians or parties that target messages to individual minority groups in the hopes of winning votes in the October election.

The Canadian Press