Mrs. Sylvia Ella Forde (nee Warner) (Barnes) February 10, 1930 – September 10, 2022 At the noble age of 92, Mrs. Sylvia Ella Forde (nee Warner) (Barnes) passed away...

By Nompumelelo Moyo (LJI) As the congregation of St Paul’s Anglican Church in Cote des Neiges welcome their new spiritual leader after the retirement of Archdeacon James Bennett, the...

Wilton “Jun Jun” Geoffrey Moore Jr Sunrise: October 21, 1951 – Sunset: August 16, 2022 It is with immense grief and sadness that we announce the sudden passing of...

Thirty-eight years ago when Archdeacon James W. Bennett introduced himself to Montrealers on the pulpit of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Cote des Neiges, the Black and Caribbean community...

Faybee’s at McKenzie Park on June 24 The Saint Jean Baptiste (Quebec’s national day) celebration is a day for many in our community to get outdoors and enjoy some...

Cue strains of Bob Marley’s ‘One Love’ with wisps of smoke carrying the smell of jerk seasoning and other delightful scents in the mid-summer sunshine and breeze on the...

By Gemma Raeburn-Baynes This year’s Spice Island Cultural Festival is back at Vinet Park in Little Burgundy on July 9. Organizers say the two-year hiatus gave them an opportunity...

It’s easy to describe Florence Phillips-Westmoreland as a people’s person, after all her readily discernable effervescence combined with her gift of gab make it pleasurable for anyone to engage...

Rosie Awori (LJI) Grace Kasoki Katahwa’s goal was clear when she entered the nursing field a decade or so ago: “I wanted to ensure that when I wake up...

Historian Dorothy Williams once described Montreal’s Black community as “a vibrant, multicultural, multilingual consisting of Blacks from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, Canada and Latin America.” She went on say...