While scam artists continue to reach their victims by telephone and in person, they have also latched on to online platforms, particularly social media, to target a new demographic: Millennials and Generation Zed. Despite being Internet-savvy, Millennials and Generation Zed have such an outsized presence online that they have become natural targets for fraudsters.
The role that communications professionals play, as part of a non-partisan professional Public Service, in helping the government communicate in two directions with Canadians and, indeed, with the rest of the world, is incredibly important to the rest of the country.
| Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
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During this hearing, we will review two applications submitted by Leclerc Communication. The first one is a request for authorization to acquire commercial radio stations CHOI-FM of Quebec City and CKLX-FM of Montreal, both owned by RNC Média. The second is a request to amend the CKLX-FM conditions of licence to transition from a predominately spoken word format to a music format. . Without being subject to a condition of license to that effect, CKLX-FM currently offers exclusively sports-oriented programming.
We have to apply the lessons that we learned from the past ten years and face the challenges ahead in pieces, whether it is about recruitment, staffing, learning and development, meeting culture or changing the way we think, and who is brought into conversations. A lot of it is about mindsets, cultures and expectations and those require engagement and dialogue.
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
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Thank you, Peggy [Schmesier, assistant professor, University of Saskatchewan], and thank you to everyone involved in organizing this Women in Science Speaker Series.