Project Description:

The Montreal Media Co-op is looking for a student, preferably in Journalism or Communications, to undertake a research and writing project for the upcoming semester. The student would be expected to work with members of the MMC is researching one or several topics through various means, including Access to Information Requests, archival research and interviews. While familiarity with journalistic research methods is a plus, training will be provided to the student as well.

The research will revolve around a clear topic with the goal of publishing at least one in-depth investigative piece. The topic will be defined based on the needs identified by the MMC and take into account the student's research interests. Possible topics include: Housing and homelessness Poverty rates/anti-poverty programs Environmental initiatives on Montreal island Police brutality/killings and accountability Women, queer and trans- issues in Montreal Race and racism in Montreal.

Project Description:

The main purpose of the research is to compile a list of as many deaths cased by the police in Canada in 1987 as possible.  The list should include the names of police victims and the circumstances surrounding the killings.  This also includes people killed whose names have not been released.              

The results would be put on our website www.22octobre.net, and widely disseminated throughout different cities across Canada.  At various stages of the project we would do press releases announcing the research results, as no undertaking like this has been completed as of yet in Canada.              

Project Description:

Black Rose Books would like to commission a study (10-15 page document) on the use and impact of social marketing platforms such as facebook and twitter in the Canadian publishing industry, and particularly for the small press. We would also like a guide to best practices that could be implemented. We would use the study to help create a marketing strategy using social media, allowing us to get our ideas out to a larger audience.  It empowers small presses with the tools required to compete in an increasingly concentrated publishing industry.   

This project has the possibility to be broken down in the following ways:      

Project Description:

Food security around the Concordia community is a big part of the People's Potato mandate. Even though our daily lunch servings at our soup kitchen are open to anyone (not only students but also members of the community), the homeless do not always have access to the university. Last year we attempted to address this by offering sandwiches 2 times a week outside between Guy and Atwater metros. Since we are not specialized in feeding the homeless, we are re-evaluating how effective our street serving initiative has been and whether we can be more efficient by supporting (through resources) other groups which specialize in tackling hunger on the streets. Homelessness remains an issue around Concordia and still needs to be addressed.

Research Description:

The Tiohtiake Tsi Tetsionitiotiakon Sustainability Rooted in Heritage placename mapping project will involve First Nation heritage contributions by some 50,000 individuals in the greater Montreal region who identify themselves as First Nation.  We are contributing to a compilation which has been avoided by colonial regimes for some 450 years.  We are all indigenous peoples originally from every place on earth but have been alienated from the sustainable gifts of this heritage by exogenous colonial aggression. 

A Semantic Wiki-Web Media approach will allow for participant interactivity and collaboration on developing and implementing sustainable 'indigenous' (Latin = 'self-generating') livelihood, welcome and abundance for the population of the whole region.