Resources

Are you thinking about pursuing a PR-related career or taking your current one to the next level? Check out these helpful resources, below, for inspiration. 

USEFUL LINKS

Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) National Office
www.cprs.ca

Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communications Management (CPRS is a part of the GA)
www.globalalliancepr.org

Public Relations Society of America (PRSA)
www.prsa.org

Institute for Public Relations
www.instituteforpr.org

CNW Group
www.newswire.ca/en

Marketwire
www.marketwire.com

Associated Press
www.ap.org/

Reuters Canada
http://ca.reuters.com/

Bravo Tango
http://www.bravotango.ca/

PUBLICATIONS

Books in Communications, PR and Marketing to include on your bookshelf:

• Internal Communications in Canada, Colin Babiuk and Mark Hunter LaVigne
• In the News by William Wray Carney, Colin Babiuk and Mark Hunter LaVigne, Third edition, University of Alberta Press 2019
• Fundamentals of Public Relations and Marketing Communications in Canada, edited by William Wray Carney and Leah Ann Lymer, University of Alberta Press 2015
• The New Rules of Marketing & PRby David Meerman Scott, Seventh Edition, John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2020.
• Crisis Communications in Canada: A Practical Approach, Second Edition, Centennial College Press.
• Ethics In Public Relations: A guide to best practice by Patricia J Parsons, Third Edition, CIPR, 2016.
  
  

From the Dec 10, 2020 CPRS Reads Series, below is a list of books provided by Dr. Jerome Cranston.

For adults:

• Caste, Isabel Wilkinson
• Interrupting White Privilege, Alexander Mikulich (Editor); Laurie M. Cassidy (Editor) 
• I’m still here: Black dignity in a world made for whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
• Stamped from the beginning or How to be a an anti-racist, Ibram X Kendi
• Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience, Sheila Wise Rowe 
• A More Beautiful and Terrible HistoryPaula J. Giddings: When and Where I Enter, Jeanne Theoharis

For children & youth:

• David A. Robertson: When We Were Alone
• Doreen Rappaport: Freedom River
• Kwame Alexander: Undefeated
• Bryan Stevenson: Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice

LEARNING

University of Regina 

• Public Relations Certificate
  
• Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing

First Nations University of Canada

• Indigenous Communication Arts

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

• Graphic Communications Diploma
• New Media Communications
• Interactive Design and Technology Diploma

University of Saskatchewan

• Certificate in Professional Communication
• Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing

For more information on PR studies in Canada, please visit the CPRS National website.