Blacks in Montreal in the Early Days
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Blacks in Montreal in the Early Days

“Back then, as Black people in Montreal we really valued each other… I remember the days when you would acknowledge every Black person you saw on the street. It...

Senator Don Meredith steps down
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Senator Don Meredith steps down

After a two-year sexual relationship with a teenage girl, Jamaican-born senator was forced to resign Contact Staff The less-than-stellar tenure of Don Meredith in the Canadian Senate came to...

Becoming a Queen of Stage and Social Media
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Becoming a Queen of Stage and Social Media

 No drama for Lettia McNickle Contact Staff In a world where some are made and others are broken by social media, 22-year-old Lettia McNickle is quickly mastering the many...

Sixteen vie for Little Miss Tiara Titles
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Sixteen vie for Little Miss Tiara Titles

Contact Staff Young girls from across Montreal are lined up to participate in the first staging of the Little Miss Tiara pageant that will be held on May 14,...

Trouble brewing at GREAVES ADVENTIST ACADEMY
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Trouble brewing at GREAVES ADVENTIST ACADEMY

Dear Editor GREAVES ADVENTIST ACADEMY is the only Adventist school in Montreal. The school has gone from being good to bad under the   new principal, since she took over...

Kamila Hinkson cops regional RTDNA Award
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Kamila Hinkson cops regional RTDNA Award

Contact Staff Less than a year after joining CBC Montreal news team, former CONTACT staffer Kamila Hinkson won a regional award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA),...

Never out of sight, but always out of mind Opinions

Never out of sight, but always out of mind

OUR PARADOXICAL CIRCUMSTANCE Late last year, a half-hour preview of Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations, which runs throughout 2017, was televised on the local CTV outlet. It was a showcase...

I Can and I Will Opinions

I Can and I Will

If you want something of value, you have to fight to get it. [Darren Hardy] It’s not about wishing that your circumstances will change, it’s about making a decision,...

On the record May 4, 2017
Entertainment

On the record May 4, 2017

“The Party’s Over”  – Prophets Of Rage –  Caroline Records This writer, who is a die-hard socially-conscious hip-hop fan, has always contended that rap music at its core is...

PAPA SAN WILL TAKE YOU ON A GOSPEL REGGAE JOURNEY
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PAPA SAN WILL TAKE YOU ON A GOSPEL REGGAE JOURNEY

Contact STAFF In the world of Reggae music, Papa San was one of Jamaica’s fastest lyrical speaking DJs in the dancehall scene for. So when he decided it was...