In 2013, the Anishinabek Nation honored Porter with the Debwewin Citation Award, one of the few non-Indigenous journalists to receive the award for excellence in reporting on Indigenous issues. In 2011, she won the Radio and Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Adrienne Clarkson Diversity Award for her “Common Ground Café” series, in which strangers got together to cook and discuss race relations in Thunder Bay. Throughout her career, Porter has received numerous awards and recognition for her work on Indigenous issues and social justice in northern Ontario. She is pictured to the right with Indigenous eccentrics Tina Munroe, Michelle Derosier and Ma-Nee Chakaby after the four spoke at a 2021 event in Thunder Bay about policing and public safety.
While she was out of work due to her cancer, Porter apparently took part in events and interviews, as well as writing essays and academic articles to combat racism in Thunder Bay, Ontario and improve the quality of journalism. She did it boldly, long before anyone else did. “As a settler and as a white woman in our communities, she was not afraid of that. “She had remarkable visionary abilities,” Derosier said, adding that she told stories that forced Canadians to confront their own history and the oppression of indigenous peoples at a time when others were either not looking or were afraid to do so. Porter moved to Thunder Bay in 2000 to continue this work at CBC. She believed in what she was doing,” Angekoneb said in an email to CBC News.
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She was a professional journalist in every way: tough, determined, sincere, honest and sincere. It was a time when Wawatay News ran into many problems just trying to stay afloat, but Porter’s work helped turn things around, Angekoneb said. In this photo, Porter, in her cycling jacket, was loving her motorcycle, walking outdoors, and spending time with friends and family. Porter’s friends remember her as a fun person with a sense of humor and an infectious laugh. About boarding schools, the last of which have only recently closed,” she wrote in her essay.
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“I began to cover stories from those communities: about houses without drinking water, about overcrowded houses, full of disease, mold and grief. Anjeconeb recalls hiring Porter for the position “hours, maybe even minutes” after her interview.ĪT 2020 essay she wrote for Maisonneuve magazinePorter said it was during this time that she began visiting the indigenous peoples in the region and “got the education I was missing.” Garnet Angekoneb, an Anishinaabe elder and former journalist, was the interim executive director at the time. She briefly worked as a journalist in the Northwest Territories before moving to Sioux Lookout, Ontario in 1998.Īt Sioux Lookout, she was the editor of the Wawatai Native Communication Society, an independent, self-governing media organization dedicated to stories about the 49 First Nations that make up the Nishnawbe Asuka Nation in northern Ontario. Raised in southern Ontario, Porter graduated from Centennial College with a degree in journalism. She will do it, and she will do it with such grace, sincerity and love.” Her early career “As a storyteller, I often came to her in the early days of our relationship with stories, whether they were something that was supposed to be part of the story, or was it just a story that I wanted her to keep. Michelle Derosier (left) says her friend Porter (right) held and told stories with “grace, sincerity and love.” In this photo, taken in May 2022, they are working on Derosier’s upcoming claymation film titled “The Boy and His Loss”, narrated by Porter.
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