42 Years a Community Landmark
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42 Years a Community Landmark

Ramdas West Indian Food Contact STAFF As the owner of one of a handful of West Indian stores in Montreal, you’d think that Mr. Raymond Ramdas would be troubled...

Welcome the Syrians but allow the Haitians to stay Opinions

Welcome the Syrians but allow the Haitians to stay

Call on the Trudeau government to impose a moratorium on the deportation of refugees Contact Staff With the country in the grips of anticipation in trying to accommodate 25,000...

No English speaking Blacks Among Charter of Rights awardees Opinions

No English speaking Blacks Among Charter of Rights awardees

In the struggle long before the charter of human rights institutionalized On December 10, the Quebec Human Rights Commission will parade 40 Quebecers who will receive the 40th Anniversary...

TAXPAYERS’ LAMENT: GOUGING  IS THE CITY’S PLEASURE Opinions

TAXPAYERS’ LAMENT: GOUGING IS THE CITY’S PLEASURE

What’s in your wallet? So there they were, Mayor Denis Coderre and his right-hand man, Executive Committee President, Pierre Desrochers, both looking glum as they delivered another annual tax...

Music will overflow at 30th Vision celebrations
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Music will overflow at 30th Vision celebrations

Legendary singer Jackie Robertson and boxing champ Otis Grant will receive awards Contact Staff Music will flow in an endless supply when the Black Theatre Workshop’s celebrates the 30th...

Ed Robinson at MCSO December 19
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Ed Robinson at MCSO December 19

His hits include Don’t Let the Sun Go Down and Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door Contact Staff In his 20 years or so on the reggae circuit, Ed Robinson has...

IT’S HARD TO KILL AN IDEA Opinions

IT’S HARD TO KILL AN IDEA

As the bombs rain down in the Middle East… With recent terrorist events in San Bernadino, California, Paris, Mali, Ottawa and the bombing of a Metrojet airliner over the...

Help Available to young mothers Community News

Help Available to young mothers

From parenting workshops to back-to-school to employability programs Contact Staff As the new coordinator of the Au Futur program at the Jamaica Association, community worker Susan Hamilton has her...

The Thing About Christmas
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The Thing About Christmas

In the previous issue, we talked about how our Caribbean Christmas traditions are slowly disappearing. I was attempting to create an awareness of a Caribbean Tradition that provides an...

Who stands on guard for “We”? Opinions

Who stands on guard for “We”?

Lost Identity My regular readers know that I have been extremely critical of issues that affect us as a community and Canadians at large. It has always been about...