Opinion: Canada’s newsrooms continue to exhibit exclusionary practices, and I have personally felt the impact of this

The lack of diversity in Canadian media isn’t just a data point; it’s a lived experience for journalists like me

As a Sikh journalist in Canada, I often find myself fighting two battles. The first is external, against systemic inequities in newsrooms that fail to accurately reflect the communities they serve.

The second is internal—a persistent feeling of imposter syndrome that questions, “Do I really belong here?”

Recent findings from the Canadian Association of J…