Meet Queen Victoria: Queen of Great Britain and Ireland
Community News

Meet Queen Victoria: Queen of Great Britain and Ireland

Born an Egbado princess of the Yoruba people By J. Leblanc She was born in 1843 of Royal blood, an Egbado princess of the Yoruba people of Southwest Nigeria....

Black community must set our own priority Opinions

Black community must set our own priority

Lest they Forget After reading the last edition of The Community Contact, I am left with no option but to highlight yet another facet in the ongoing woes facing...

IT’S HARD TO KILL AN IDEA Opinions

IT’S HARD TO KILL AN IDEA

As the bombs rain down in the Middle East… With recent terrorist events in San Bernadino, California, Paris, Mali, Ottawa and the bombing of a Metrojet airliner over the...

Respect due to the Rt. Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey
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Respect due to the Rt. Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey

Quebec’s Toponyny Commission cast aspersions Contact Staff In 1960, Marcus Garvey was designated Jamaica’s first national hero. And today, decades after his death, his memory lives on in the...

BTW celebrates THEIR 45th SEASON in a big way
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BTW celebrates THEIR 45th SEASON in a big way

(Artistic Directors from left to right: Don Jordan, Tyrone Benskin, Quincy Armorer, Winston Sutton, Terry Donald, Clarence Bayne) Black Theatre Workshop celebrates 45 years of creating great theatre by...

Overcomers Assembly turns 10 in style
Church & Gospel

Overcomers Assembly turns 10 in style

Congregation will donate 100 bags full of school supplies to students in NDG and Ville St. Pierre Submitted by Rose Wangechi Ntone As part of their ongoing outreach program...

Revolution at the doorsteps of Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean News

Revolution at the doorsteps of Trinidad and Tobago

Raffique Shah, former rebel soldier now eminent journalist remembers the days of the revolution in T&T in 1970 Egbert Gaye On April 21, 1970, Trinidad and Tobago found itself...

Goodluck Jonathan’s ineffectiveness Opinions

Goodluck Jonathan’s ineffectiveness

PRESIDENTIAL INEPTITUDE While some of the world was preoccupied with the atrocities in Paris, France, earlier this month—the killings of 17 innocent people, most of them employees of the...

I AM JEALOUS Opinions

I AM JEALOUS

It is difficult to say that I am jealous. But I am. I am jealous about the two million or more marchers who came out in Paris to protest...

Intercultural Choir back  in a great performance
Church & Gospel

Intercultural Choir back in a great performance

By Margot Blackman On October 26, The Montreal Intercultural Choir gave a concert at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Cote-des-Neiges. It was a benefit concert, a “thank you” to...