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
Community News

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
Community News

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...

Otis takes success as far as he can
Special Features

Otis takes success as far as he can

  The evening is as good a time as any to reach Otis Grant, the retired professional boxer who now runs a gym in Dorval as well a foundation...

In the Midst of Fearbola
News

In the Midst of Fearbola

Ebola Crisis: Africa stays strong while world dithers Egbert Gaye The panic over the much-dreaded Ebola virus is almost full-fledged in the United States and slowly making its way...