Quebec’s Bill 40: Educational Conflagration Opinions

Quebec’s Bill 40: Educational Conflagration

Bill 40 is viewed as a hurried bill with accompanying negative consequences for Québec’s public schools… On October 1, 2018, a general election was held in Quebec. It was...

Dr. Kamau Braithwaite: A Caribbean man of letters Caribbean News

Dr. Kamau Braithwaite: A Caribbean man of letters

Remembered as titan of Caribbean Literature by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Motley Contact Staff With the passing of Dr. Kamau Brtaithwithe on February 4, the Caribbean lost one of...

Remembering Tony “Tiger” Teemal Community News

Remembering Tony “Tiger” Teemal

Contact Staff News of the passing of Raymond Tony Teemal spread across our community like a wildfire on the hills of the northern range in Trinidad and Tobago and...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH: HERE AND NOW
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: HERE AND NOW

Rosie AWORI On January 29, a cross-section of Montrealers gathered at Salon Urbain, Place des Arts for the launch of Black History Month 2020. at the Place des Arts....

Carla Beauvais turns advocacy and organizing into empowerment
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Carla Beauvais turns advocacy and organizing into empowerment

Contact Staff The way Carla Beauvais sees it, Black History Month comes as a reminder for us as a community to get our act together: to reflect and figure...

Koffee’s Blessings  From on High
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Koffee’s Blessings From on High

The youngest and the first female solo act to win the Grammy for the Best Reggae Album Contact Staff Probably it’s too much of a cliché but here goes:...

Mamba Mentality Lives On
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Mamba Mentality Lives On

Rosie Awori Let’s remember Kobe Bryant. The 6 foot 6 inch scoring machine was the first guard to be drafted from high school into the NBA in 1996 as...

Elysia Bryan-Baynes signs off at Global TV
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Elysia Bryan-Baynes signs off at Global TV

Egbert Gaye After 17 years at Global Television in Montreal, it comes with some satisfaction for Elysia Bryan-Baynes in her decision to step away from a profession she loves...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2020 Opinions

BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2020

Lots of talk, yes, but does anyone care, is anyone listening…? With all due respect to the civil rights icon, anyone and everyone born in the decades of the...