Studio Canek

Studio Canek is a small multimedia company based in Ottawa, Canada, with roots in Latin America and the Caribbean. We produce digital media for journalism, education, and communication about and for parts of the world overlooked by the dominant media corporations. We also help people tell their own stories online through workshops and elearning. We're always looking for new collaborations that excite and inform!

eLearning

We produce online courses that capture the excitement of learning in-person, the visual engagement of a great movie, and are as hard to put down as a good book. We use clear, accessible language, bright cheerful design and a wealth of original multimedia.

Northern Entrepreneurship

Our contributions to an online course for northern and native entrepreneurs in Canada.

Articulate templates

Slide templates for a large Articulate Storyline project, demonstrating visual design and content types

Pwoteksyon Bo Lanme

An eight-module course on covering coastal resilience for Haitian Journalists, making the latest academic information available in French and Creole.

Especies en Peligro

A Spanish-language course about endangered species aimed at community journalists and environmentalists in the Caribbean.

RadioAction

Experience the thrill of telling exciting real life stories in sound.

Science through storytelling

We help children learn science and engineering with hands-on projects and a storytelling twist.

Interactive

Sometimes the best tools for learning are your fingertips. Enhance understanding and communication with our games, maps and graphs you can touch, explore and play with.

The aerosol double whammy

What happens to the climate if human aerosol emissions increase? Observe the "double whammy" impact of temperature change and climate sensitivity.

The many routes to Mexico

Listen to the stories of migrants from Asia and Africa as they cross the perilous Darien Gap, en route to Mexico. Published by Periodistas de a Pie.

Neglected Waters

Visit Haiti's Trois Baies Marine Protected Area, find out about the native flora and fauna and the growing threats to their ecosystems in this interactive 3D map story.

Animation

We produce hand-drawn animated explainer videos that break down complex subjects into bright, colourful parts. Expert script writing and narration tie them all together.

The Life of Ice

Learn about the lifespan of ice, from tiny frazil crystals to meters-high pressure ridges, and how that lifespan is getting shorter thanks to climate feedback loops unique to the far north.

Mangrove and you

Watch how mangrove protects beaches, homes, sea life coral and you. Then watch what happens when mangrove disappears (In Haitian Creole and Spanish).

Leadership on the land

Short videos that find business leadership lessons from northern native life.

Podcasts

Building on the best traditions of radio journalism, we produce podcasts that take listeners on a sonic voyage, with up-close interviews, sounds from the field and gripping personal stories. We also teach others to tell their own audio stories through in-person and online workshops.

Vidas Cruzadas

Follow the journey of two brothers as they cross a continent to reach their parents, and meet other migrants along the way.

Haiti Untold

Audio stories from Haiti in Creole, French and English: a day in the life of a handicapped Port-a-Prince resident; a field trip with a plastic bottle recycler; insights into Haiti's booming urbanization; trailing a trafficked child to the Dominican Republic and more.

Stories from the edge of the sea

These folks get up to some really cool stuff. Studio Canek shows them how to share it with the world... through a podcast.

Blog

Studio Canek to co-produce a workshop for Haitian journalists on coastal resilience

Nov. 7, 2022

Studio Canek receives funding to co-produce a workshop for Haitian journalists on coastal resilience

The personal e-learning classroom

July 30, 2025

Memories of good times in the classroom led Studio Canek to create our own content authoring software over lockdown

Interview: Haiti's environmental reporters

Dec. 6, 2022

What is it like to cover the environment when politics, poverty and football dominate the headlines? We talk to Patrick Saint-Pre, co-founder of the Haiti Climat news agency.

Interview: Haiti's online classroom

Dec. 19, 2022

Interview with Alexandrine Benjamin, who helps produce the colorful videos teaching Haitian kids everything from science to soccer etiquette.

Interviewing farmers - a "field" guide

Aug. 15, 2025

These guides were made to help community radio journalists get exciting, personal interviews with farmers that go beyond the everyday Q&A about crops and fertilizers.

Using machine learning to find patterns in Mexico's "forensic crisis"

Dec. 19, 2022

We run 30,000 records of unidentified bodies through a natural language processor

Partners

Our team

Conrad Fox is an award-winning journalist and producer. He has reported from Mexico, Central America and Haiti, with his work appearing on the CBC, NPR, BBC World Service and other outlets. He is dynamic and creative instructor, and has taught journalism, English, robotics, soccer, physics and anthropology in classrooms, lecture halls, boardrooms, mud huts, playing fields and online. He is also a developer, specialized in Python and the web.

Rosi Rodriguez is a social anthropologist with specializations in education, migration and the environment. She has spent more than 30 years involved in education of children and adults, in formal and informal settings. She was co-founder of the first indigenous-led community development organization in Southern Veracruz, bringing together dozens of communities through workshops, events and educational activities. She is still happiest seated in front of a palapa with a group of neighbours, sharing thoughts and experiences.

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