How is Canadian media failing to reflect Canada’s multicultural society?

Journalist Christopher Cheung’s new book, Under the White Gaze, is a candid investigation into the state of race in Canadian media today, and a call for newsrooms to think critically about representation in all areas of coverage.

Following his acclaimed series of the same name in The Tyee, Cheung explores why reporting on race is necessary, how the language for doing so is evolving, and why intersectionality increasingly matters in stories about race. He also explains how some well-meaning reporting today perpetuates the white gaze, and weighs in on how Canada's white gaze operates differently than America's. 

Christopher will be in conversation with writer Kevin Chong. 

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Christopher Cheung is a staff reporter at The Tyee. He is interested in the power and politics behind urban change, and how Vancouver’s many diasporas strive to make a home in a city with colonial legacies. In 2021, he won the Jack Webster Award — B.C.’s top achievement in journalism — for his reporting on how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected working-class immigrant neighbourhoods. Cheung has written for a number of newspapers and magazines, with columns in the Vancouver Courier and Metro. He was born and raised in Vancouver and still lives there.

Kevin Chong is the award-winning author of several books of fiction and nonfiction. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Rumpus, and more. He currently lives in Vancouver and is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus. His most recent novel, The Double Life of Benson Yu, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.