Rachel Bendayan primed and ready for Outremont
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Rachel Bendayan primed and ready for Outremont

By-elections on February 25 Contact Staff In the 2015 federal elections, Rachel Bendayan, a young lawyer born and raised in the Cote des Neiges area staged a spirited contest...

Why we should donate blood
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Why we should donate blood

BHM annual Blood drive on February 16. Bring a friend with you Contact Staff Ultimately, at some point in our lives we or someone dear to us may need...

Duke and CBC celebrate BHM  with The CONTACT
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Duke and CBC celebrate BHM with The CONTACT

Contact Staff Black History Month celebrations took a special turn this year with the return of one of its alumni, Duke Eatmon, to the offices of the CONTACT on...

Money to assist with eye care and  to buy computers for students
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Money to assist with eye care and to buy computers for students

Campaign launched to raise funds for primary school in Kingston Contact Staff Following a 2017 visit by Jamaica’s minister of Local Government and Community Development, the Honourable Desmond A....

CRY-CRY BABIES… OR MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING? Opinions

CRY-CRY BABIES… OR MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING?

by Rasta KEITH Come to think of it, there seems to be nothing more racially offensive and culturally insensitive than a white person painting his or her face in...

Protest and Pedagogy: Jan. 29 –February 11
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Protest and Pedagogy: Jan. 29 –February 11

Two week of events to commemorate The Sir George Williams Affair Contact Staff As the cliché goes: fifty years ago on February 11, 1969, something happened on the Ninth...

BLACKOUT
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BLACKOUT

A dramatic creation and interpretation of the Sir George Williams Affair By Nancy Oliver-MacKenzie Blackout is an appropriate title for this new interpretation of the Sir George Williams Affair....

Celebrating 50 YEARS of Black Cultural Contributions and Artistic Excellence
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Celebrating 50 YEARS of Black Cultural Contributions and Artistic Excellence

BTW A STAR IN THE NORTH: VISION  GALA 2019 OPENS BLACK HISTORY MONTH Dr. Clarence Bayne It started in Arthur Goddard basement on Milton Avenue, a half block from...

Honoring The Queen Maker Dawn McNichols
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Honoring The Queen Maker Dawn McNichols

By Gemma Raeburns After years of staging pageants and fashion shows in the City of Montreal, Trinidadian-born Dawn McNichols is about to get her due. On Sunday, March 10,...