Meet 11-year-old Elizabeth Bell:  A powerhouse on the baseball pitch
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Meet 11-year-old Elizabeth Bell: A powerhouse on the baseball pitch

Rosie Awori (LJI) When Jackie Robison broke the color barrier in baseball, he could not have imagined the ripple effect he created. And now decades later, 11-year-old Elizabeth Bell,...

Neighborhood issues on Stephanie King’s mind
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Neighborhood issues on Stephanie King’s mind

Rosie Awori (LJI) Stephanie Henry King stands proudly on the foundation of her Little Burgundy upbringing. She credits the borough, which is considered one of Montreal’s first Black neighborhoods,...

Meet Chanel M. Sutherland:  winner of the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize
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Meet Chanel M. Sutherland:  winner of the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize

Rosie Awori (LJI) In the socially distant silence of the pandemic last year, the brutal murder of George Floyd sparked boycotts, protests, and rallies. Discussions around race relations were...

In Desperation, Quebec Offers Nurses Big Money
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In Desperation, Quebec Offers Nurses Big Money

The aim is to get about 4500 nurses and back into the public healthcare system. To make it happen the Quebec government is ready to pump about $1 billion...

TANZANIAN WRITER WINS NOBEL PRIZE
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TANZANIAN WRITER WINS NOBEL PRIZE

Rosie Awori (LJI) The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday October 7, to Abdulrazak Gurnah for “his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and...

Montreal author Ketsia Morand offers tools for healing
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Montreal author Ketsia Morand offers tools for healing

Rosie Awori (LJI) The beginning of fall finds Ketsia Morand busy juggling her motherhood responsibilities, schoolwork and now press for her new book; When It Hurts Too Much to...

Trevor Williams’ long and glorious history on and off the court
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Trevor Williams’ long and glorious history on and off the court

Rosie Awori (LJI) Former basketball star, Trevor Williams is proud of many things. One of them is his Trevor Williams Kids Foundation, where for the past 28 years he...

Deadline for all health workers in Quebec to get vaccinated set to Oct. 15
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Deadline for all health workers in Quebec to get vaccinated set to Oct. 15

Rosie Awori (LJI) On Tuesday September 7, the Quebec government announced that all health care workers no longer have the option of turning down the vaccine. And as of...

Montrealers deliver for HAITI
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Montrealers deliver for HAITI

Rosie Awori (LJI) Days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake devastated part of Haiti’s southern peninsula on August 14, Montrealer Svens Telemaque got busy trying mobilize help for victims. Through...

IN REPENTIGNY, SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE BETWEEN POLICE AND BLACKS
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IN REPENTIGNY, SOMETHING HAS TO GIVE BETWEEN POLICE AND BLACKS

Rosie Awori (LJI) For the past five years complaints about racial profiling by the Repentigny police force (Service de police de la Ville de Repentigny or SPVR.) have been increasing. Things...