Accountability
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Accountability

The video that circulated after police was called for an altercation following a party on de Maisonneuve west early Sunday morning October 16, was troubling enough. The young man...

Optimista kicks off with The Black Cop
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Optimista kicks off with The Black Cop

Montreal’s Yellow Pad Sessions (YPS), presents OPTIMISTA an ambitious multidisciplinary art project intended to inspire and encourage during uncertain times through a celebration of human spirit. The series takes...

Reduce violence on Montreal streets
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Reduce violence on Montreal streets

Along with the reports and headlines’ domination of the marked rise in violence on Montreal streets, comes the tired narrative that combating the problem requires greater funding for police...

MONTREAL VENDORS EXPO on July 30
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MONTREAL VENDORS EXPO on July 30

With the increasing number of job losses and uncertainties in the job market due to the pandemic, many Montrealers have been putting on their entrepreneurial hats and are setting...

Policing Blacks: The Reality And Truth Lies Within Its Root
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Policing Blacks: The Reality And Truth Lies Within Its Root

Last week Toronto’s Police Chief James Ramer apologized to the public, following revelation of the police’s own analysis, and what has been known to all and sundry from time...

Shizzle remembered as helpful and popular
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Shizzle remembered as helpful and popular

News that a motorcyclist died in an accident on Courval Street, near Hickmore Street and Highway 13, in St Laurent early Sunday morning, May 29, took on a sense...

THE ANSWER IS: MASS  IN-CAR-CE-RA-TION…..
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THE ANSWER IS: MASS IN-CAR-CE-RA-TION…..

In the ever-popular T.V. quiz show Jeopardy the moderator gives the answers and the contestants ask the questions. e.g. Ans. It is the most popular language spoken in Canada....

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is right for the U.S. Supreme Court
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is right for the U.S. Supreme Court

On Monday, March 20, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson , a 51 year old Black woman stood in front of the judiciary committee of the United States Senate at her...

WAR: HUMAN AND NATURAL PHENOMENA AND MUSIC?
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WAR: HUMAN AND NATURAL PHENOMENA AND MUSIC?

In either circumstance there’s nothing to like. Each has the capacity to generate chaos: disrupting daily normal human life and activities by being chaotic and destructive, deadly and more....

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

At this time of year, I can hear certain people of every ethnocultural background, except the obvious one, stifling big yawns as they hear talk in the media of...