Posted: Dec 31, 2020 8:00 AM NT | Last Updated: December 31, 2020
Ramraajh Sharvendiran is the co-host of CBC Radio s St. John s Morning Show and creator of the N.L. in Colour series.(CBC)
Over the past few months, CBC N.L. has rolled out a series entitled N.L in Colour a five-instalment series exploring the lives of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians who don t always fit into the crowds around them in this province.
It s an idea that came from my own journey here.
At the start of 2020, I was working out of the CBC bureau in Northern Manitoba, and for the entirety of my life before that, I lived in Toronto. In both those spaces I had the opportunity to live in culturally diverse communities.
Posted: Dec 17, 2020 6:00 AM NT | Last Updated: December 17, 2020
John Jeddore, from Miawpukek, sat down with CBC N.L. to talk about what it means to be Indigenous in Newfoundland.(Mark Cumby/CBC)
It was 2006, and John Jeddore, a wayward kid from a small community in southern Newfoundland, might as well have been moving to another planet. Tell them you re from Bay d Espoir. Don t tell them you re from Conne River, warned a well-intentioned relative.
Jeddore, 17, heeded the advice at first. He felt lost enough on busy downtown streets and in crowded lecture halls without the added confusion of explaining where he came from.