The stage set for Reggae Fest 2016
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The stage set for Reggae Fest 2016

This summer’s Montreal International Reggae Festival 2016, the largest outdoor reggae festival in Canada, is expected to be the best one. The 13th edition of MIRF, which runs the...

Stars are born at this B-Ball Summer Camp
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Stars are born at this B-Ball Summer Camp

  Young Anthony Maxwell is a phenom with lots of potential Egbert Gaye Down at the third floor gym of James Lyng High School, a group of young, aspiring...

The big names are here for reggae fest 2016
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The big names are here for reggae fest 2016

Contact Staff This year, the best option for anyone considering the reggae fest might be to get a weekend pass. Such is the power of the line-up over the...

Trini Day: Flags for so
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Trini Day: Flags for so

As usual Trini Day in the Park was the flavor of the summer.  And party –hungry Montrealers couldn’t get enough of the calypso and soca music served  by an...

Video cameras, cell phones and the Internet are illuminating it Opinions

Video cameras, cell phones and the Internet are illuminating it

IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE Yes it is. And sometimes it “makes me wonder how I keep from goin’ under.” The words of preeminent rappers Grandmaster Flash at the...

Former Montrealer Shirley Small launching her book at UNIA
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Former Montrealer Shirley Small launching her book at UNIA

In keeping with the title of her second collection of poetry, ICONS, Shirley Small conjures memories of some of Africa’s children, the seeds and fruits dispersed across the Diaspora,...

Transport MInister made a stop-over at MR. PATTY’s BBQ
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Transport MInister made a stop-over at MR. PATTY’s BBQ

On Sunday July 17, Federal Transport Minister Marc Garneau made a surprise visit to the home of David and Madge Bailey in Cote St. Luc. The occasion was a...

Canada’s Complicity in the Slave Trade:  A Call for a Cultural Monument Opinions

Canada’s Complicity in the Slave Trade: A Call for a Cultural Monument

Opinion Some form of government-initiated intervention will not only be appropriate but timely and rewarding  By Bongs Lainjo I like to perceive slavery as the “incarceration” of human beings...

Socamatters at the Reggae Fest
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Socamatters at the Reggae Fest

Reggae music is always going to be the main part of the Caribbean musical output, but there is an argument to be made that for Caribbean people who live...

Children as observers Opinions

Children as observers

As violence begets violence, what kind of notes are they taking… America has always been regarded as the world’s television. No matter what time you tune in, or on...