The Cartt.ca Podcast: APTN president and CEO Jean La Rose

By Bill Roberts

JEAN LA ROSE HAS BEEN CEO of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network for 17 of the channel’s 20 years. To say he’s seen a lot is an immeasurable understatement.He tells our Bill Roberts how he felt the hurt inflicted by racism as an Indigenous Canadian and how hard it has been not only to help to protect Indigenous people from harm, but their culture from the onslaught of global media which doesn’t reflect the lives of the majority of his viewers.APTN grew from a channel which, La Rose admits, didn’t really know what it was doing at first, to what...