Endeavouring to progress beyond the 28 Opinions

Endeavouring to progress beyond the 28

From where will the help come for the Black community? We must keep it real. Or to coin the vernacular of the young people,” Let’s keep it 100. Maybe...

A Call for Accountability Opinions

A Call for Accountability

Lack of accountability is compromising what is left of us as a people and a community Permit me to preface this article by saying a few things. Firstly, this...

Hidden Figures reveal more than Math and Numbers Opinions

Hidden Figures reveal more than Math and Numbers

Feb. 1 kicks off the whirlwind race to remember and highlight the highs and lows of African-American and Black history. Descendants of Africa have 28 days to crowd in...

WHEN GUNS BECOME THE VOICE OF MENTAL ILLNESS Opinions

WHEN GUNS BECOME THE VOICE OF MENTAL ILLNESS

Abstract: The scourge of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is running rampant and unchecked among our returning veterans, with fatal consequences. The Canadian & U. S Government, and Ministries of Veteran...

January 20, 2017… Inauguration Day or Black Friday? Opinions

January 20, 2017… Inauguration Day or Black Friday?

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President, guided America through the most devastating experience in its national history–the CIVIL WAR. Is Donald Trump the 45th President and also a Republican up...

My wish for the community Opinions

My wish for the community

Clinging halfheartedly to the age old maxim that confession is good for the soul; let me forthwith confess that I am not big on giving gifts at Christmas, Kwanzaa...

Oh! Quebec how blind can thou be? Opinions

Oh! Quebec how blind can thou be?

Yvonne Sam In Quebec the road has never been easy for any member of the human race sporting a darker pigmentation from that of the mainstream culture, even if...

Racial Profiling Opinions

Racial Profiling

Black Civil rights also matter As a preliminary step before delving into this somewhat charged topic, it is useful to define racial profiling as the Canadian populace in general...

Face to face with the stigma Opinions

Face to face with the stigma

Let us stop turning a blind eye to mental illness and address it instead Sheila is crazy” or “Joseph is a little off.” Yes, we have all heard people...

After November 8 –  What awaits the Blacks Opinions

After November 8 – What awaits the Blacks

Well the historic election of the century has come and gone.  What with all the drama!  Thanks to providence, after a truly polluted campaign fraught with name calling, hyperboles,...