John Robbins, an award-winning multimedia journalist, joined Bullet News as a staff writer in January 2011. He was named editor in April 2013. The veteran reporter worked in Niagara and Fort Erie for more than a decade, using his investigative skills in a wide range of beats, including local politics, health/environment, education, business and tourism. His writing has earned him six Ontario Newspaper Awards Robbins, born and raised in Niagara Falls, studied at Emmanuel Bible College and Brock University before graduating from the Journalism-Print program at Niagara College, where he earned several scholarships and awards. During his 11 years as a reporter at the Niagara Falls Review, Robbins, who was Fort Erie bureau chief from 2002-2006, was instrumental in bringing video and e-reporting skills into daily practice at the newspaper and helped build its web and social media audiences. In 2009, Robbins received an appointment to journalism-print advisory committee at Niagara College. Robbins lives in Ridgeway.
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One Comment on "READER POLL: Do you understand and support the aims of the Idle No More movement?"
Native Indians are a conquered people whose country was taken over by others. Hundreds of years ago. Accept it and get over it. Canada supported the take over of Kosovo by Albanian immigrants who have only settled there in the last 50 or 60 years en mass, and told the Serbians to leave (even though that territory was the seat of their history and culture as a peoples). I don’t understand why this is any different. And if living on reservations is like living in third world country (that is even though they accept billions of OUR taxpayer dollars), then move off the reservation and into the rest of the civilized society.