On Saturday, October 8, dozens of models will be sashaying across the runway at the Schofield Hall in TMR Egbert Gaye Every year, when the Rip The Runway Montreal crew gets together to plan their annual Fashion For A Cause show, one of their biggest concerns is which charity should benefit from their efforts. “Raising awareness to causes that we feel aren’t getting enough recognition has been our mission from our very first year in 2012,” states Janice Small-Wright, one of the founders of the highly popular annual Thanksgiving weekend fashion show. Since then they have donated well over $18,500 …

She will use resources to explore the future of transnational labor laws Egbert Gaye As she continues to break new grounds in her efforts to shine the spotlight on transnational labor law and development, McGill University Law professor Adelle Blackett now has the resources that come with the 2016 Trudeau Fellowship award to take it to another level. Professor Blackett is one of five Canadian intellectuals to earn the prestigious fellowship awarded by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in recognition of “their productivity, their commitment to communicating their findings to the public, and their ability to imagine innovative solutions to …

This entrepreneur has big plans for the humble patty Egbert Gaye “Patties will always be an ethnic snack… it will always be a Jamaican patty, but I intend to introduce it as a mainstream snack food just like pizza or souvlaki here in Montreal,” so says Mr. Ray South who recently opened PattyMon Restaurant at the corner of Cote des Neiges and Cote St. Catherine roads. “Just as it is in Toronto and Vancouver where people will go and buy two patties and a drink for lunch.” “And as you can see, from the location of my restaurant, close to …

As they have been doing for the past five years, the mature set will meet on Thanksgiving Sunday, October 9, for another get together where friendship and camaraderie will be celebrated in the midst of beautiful music and nonstop dancing. Organizers call it the ideal old-school reunion, flavored by old-school music all night. That is what the Graduating Class has come to represent for partygoers in this town. This year the gathering, which usually attracts well over 500, will be at Jet Night Club, 2020 Crescent, in the heart of downtown Montreal, and organizers add that the evening will be …

The Montreal International Black Film Festival brings Barack and Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou and Black Lives Matter to a screen near you. All will be Breathtaking Egbert Gaye The way Fabienne Colas sees it, everyone committed to diversity and justice for all is obligated to lend a voice to the cause. So this year she is using the spotlight of The Montreal International Black Film Festival to focus on issues of race, inequality and the elevation of human rights. “Today, more than ever, we want to challenge the many inconsistencies, inequalities, and injustices that still claim many victims. Colas, president …

The place for those working towards high school diploma Egbert Gaye Call it the little school that could. It has no name, just two teachers, one or two administrator and a handful of students all joined together in the pursuit of making dreams come true. The initiative is called the Community Academic Achievement Program (CAAP) and it’s operated jointly by the Cote des Neiges Black Community Association and the EMSB.. Kidel Reid, is the  education program coordinator.  He says although they are just offering classes in French and Math, the  school  is a viable pathway to getting a high school …

On September 11 an opportunity to celebrate Egbert Gaye Community matters. Because whether we like it or not, community defines who we are and how we’re defined by society. And on Sunday, September 11, a cross-section of the Black and Caribbean community will gather at the Crowne Plaza Hotel to pay tribute to a group of men and women who have had a hand in firming up the foundation of what we have in place today. These men and women, some French-speaking, others English-speaking, come from all walks of life and have distinguished themselves by the impact they have had …

Pastor Joel and Mrs. Mrynelle-Sandra Anderson:an uplifting force at Montreal West Church of God of Prophesy By Egbert Gaye Up at the Montreal West Church of God of Prophecy, which is nestled just outside the de la Savane Metro, on the edge of Town of Mount Royal and Cote des Neiges, there seems to be a free flow of love sprinkling the congregation there. Ray Johnston, who has been at the church with his wife and family going on 30 years, acknowledges the “good vibes” and places it directly at the lap of two individuals, Pastor Joel Anderson and his …

Discord among congregation forces United Church Presbytery to install a supervisor and a chairperson Egbert Gaye It’s going on 120 years since 26 men and women of faith founded a place of worship, where “respect for person” and the dignity of Black people would flourish. That place, Union United Church of Montreal, stood for a long time as a symbol of our community’s diversity and resilience. But these days the foundational pride of ownership and the protection of dignity are threatened by ruptures in the congregation and a floundering leadership that might be at the root of the discord. It …