All posts on November, 2020

Contact Staff There’s still so much that’s not known about the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Sheffield Matthews during the early morning of Thursday, October 29, near to the corner of Cote St Luc Road and West Hill Avenue in N.D.G. What we have learn so far is that around 6:00 AM that morning, Matthews, who was just two days shy of his 42nd birthday appeared to be in crisis and was on the street with a knife in his hands. So far we have learnt from the Bureau of Independent Investigations (BEI), which investigates police shootings, that he appeared …

Contact Staff On Friday, November 6, by the time you’re reading this, Marlene Jennings would have cleaned out her desk and vacated her office at the English Montreal School Board, where she has been serving as the government-appointed trustee over the past year. When in November 2019, she answered the call from Education Minister Jean-Francois Roberge to take over administration of the board, the EMSB was deemed to be operationally dysfunctional with widespread allegations of in-fighting among its 14 elected school commissioners and chairperson, Angela Mancini. Jennings’s task was to take over the combined function and powers of the chairperson …

Contact Staff On November 28, Montrealers are being offered an opportunity to steer their minds away from the lingering fears of the COVID-19 crisis when the Black Community Resource Centre (BCRC) joins forces with the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, to present an evening of online entertainment featuring an extended line-up of some of our community’s most exciting performers. Organizers say the online event comes at a time when live music, which is at the heart of cultural and community life for many, has been in a precarious situation since last March, when the world went into lockdown. That’s why lovers …

Rosie Awori (LJl) The Canadian government highlighted 16 Quebec anti-racism projects, aimed at removing systemic barriers faced by Indigenous peoples, racialized communities, and religious minorities in the country. The projects are part of a $15-million Anti-Racism Action Program which funded 85 local, regional, and national initiatives, as well as outcomes-based activities that address racism and discrimination in all forms. “This program is actually about empowering enabling communities to develop the solutions that the country needs. So. as much as the government oftentimes feel that they have all the answers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and our government recognizes that Canadians have …

The man many predicted would walk the political plank surprised his detractors… for a while I stayed up late Monday night, Novemeber 2, the eve of age U.S. elections listening to election “Talk”: political analyses, conversations and discussions were the enter-tainment on just about all television screens that evening and late into the night. As usual, experts of all political persuasions stripes, particularly the two primary ones, as well as people of the multicultural and ideological demographic makeup of the country were included to have input in the/their American pastime. [America after all is a growing and increasingly multi-ethnic, multi-racial …

It may seems like the Soca parang music has deteriorated but thisyear many artist plan on putting more effort in producing more Soca Parang music. As this horrific year slowly comes to an end, many are looking towards 2021 for hope, improvements and resolutions. Unfortunately Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime minister Keith Rowley hit us with bad news In September that next year’s carnival will not be held. The announcement was a blow for the twin-island nation, which has been struggling through an economic crisis, as well as carnival lovers around the world. Trinidad & Tobago carnival is held before Ash …

It’s available to anyone who wants to use it Thank God for sanitizers. They kill germs and many of us rely on them with hopes that they would protect from colds and viruses. Now, more than ever before, due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the world has been introduced to a new level of hand sanitizing. Santizers have now been mandated as part of our regular commute and when going in and out of public places. At the onset of the news of the coronavirus, some people were buying large amounts of hand sanitizer to keep in storage. …

Hang on to your pillows—Politics do make for strange bedfellows It does not matter who wins the presidential elections, there is no exit from the roller coaster anytime soon. A lot of campaigning time was spent planning every move short of homicide that would ensure Trump the nation’s germ would not get a second term. Many voters going into the election held the belief that if Biden wins the presidency, the constant disruption, chaos, and social unrest will recede because Trump will no longer be president. Some of them actually hinged their vote on that. Those exasperated voters and every …

The original form of the N—word conjures up hate, superiority, dehumanization, lynching, marginalization, sexual and physical abuse and powerlessness, particularly on a group of people designated as Blacks. Dr. Alwin SPENCE In 1972, I attended my first post-graduate lecture and was greeted by a youthful professor who welcomed us, and immediately tried to put us all at ease. She, no doubt was younger than most of us in her class but she sounded very self-assured. In her introductory remarks she mentioned that she occasionally used the F—word, and wanted to know if anyone would be offended or would have any …

Gemma Raeburn-Baynes The Spice Island Cultural Day Association of Quebec (SICDAQ) is spreading joy among Grenadian children for the upcoming Holiday season with their Christmas Smile Project. Due to Covid-19 and the loss of many jobs in the country, SICDAQ with the collaboration of the Office of the Honorary Consul, Theodore H. Blaize, answered the call to assist children in need, in late October by shipping four barrels and six large boxes crammed with toys, books, school supplies, snacks, personal items and toiletries children’s homes and orphanages in Grenada. The items were collected from Grenadians and friends of Grenada in …