Ampersand

Most Canadians don’t think twice about watching a Hollywood movie, binging a Netflix original series, or scrolling on a Meta social media platform, like Instagram or Facebook. Consuming American cont…

People in communications know that success requires more than just strong writing skills. It takes an ability to think outside the box to get the message out and exceed our goals. 

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How do you make infrastructure interesting? You tell the stories of the people using the infrastructure.

In this episode of Ampersand, we sit down with Elizabeth Shilts, the Director of Communications…

Journalists are up against a lot: paywalls, dwindling attention spans, disinformation, and clickbait, to name a few things. So, what’s the future of journalism? 

In this episode of Ampersand, we dig i…

Populist rhetoric and right wing talking points have been migrating north of the US-Canadian border since before Trump’s re-election. What can us Canadians in the for-good space do about it?

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We know digital networks create echo chambers that widen the divide in our increasingly polarized world. So, how do you break through the noise and get people to care about your cause? 

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The idea of clean energy is nothing new — the Pembina Institute has been at the centre of the conversation around the energy transition in Canada since the 1980s. 

In this episode of Ampersand we sit …

How do you make academic research accessible to policymakers, the general public, and civil society? More importantly, how do you make it resonate?

In this episode of Ampersand, we dig into this and m…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to lead the communications team for Canada’s largest international conservation organization?

In this episode of Ampersand, we have the pleasure of speakin…

It's time to move beyond reconciliation in theory — to reconciliation in action. Now what does that look like? 

In this episode of Ampersand, we are joined by the wonderfully brilliant Hillory Tenute,…

This year, ChatGPT changed the way we think about AI. A tool that’s come closer to emulating human thought than any of its predecessors seems irresistible from an efficiency standpoint. But for those…

In 2020, there was a cultural reckoning in the US and Canada around the prevalence of systemic racism. Since then, there’s been a wave of companies, organizations, and brands declaring their belief i…

As communicators trying to effect progressive change, our work often requires us to take on projects that are surrounded by deep trauma.

At Emdash we’ve had the honour of working on projects involving…

In this episode of Ampersand, we sit down with Melissa Ridgen (Managing Editor of Global News) and Maureen Googoo (Owner and Editor of Ku’ku’kwes News) to talk about how the process of decolonizing j…