MENTALIZING…
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MENTALIZING…

The more l observe and listen to the premier, the more his subtle, sometimes patronizing disdain for English — the language and people — seeps into my mind, becoming...

The Tale of a Nation, Two Teens and Two Elected Officials
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The Tale of a Nation, Two Teens and Two Elected Officials

Recent events have left me sort of reeling. Story after story, socially and politically, local and national, has challenged almost all of what I have left in me. I...

We must stop viewing police from a top-down law-enforcement perspective  but instead as part of a solution to social problems.
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We must stop viewing police from a top-down law-enforcement perspective but instead as part of a solution to social problems.

On November 1, when I heard the news on the radio that a male had been pepper sprayed at close range by the Montreal police ( SPVM), that he...

Fifty years later two men exonerated for killing Malcolm X
News

Fifty years later two men exonerated for killing Malcolm X

Two men who were convicted for the murder of Malcolm X in 1965, have now been cleared of all charges by a Manhattan judge. Mohammed Aziz and the Late...

Distraught over her child’s murder
Community News

Distraught over her child’s murder

A day after her son, 16-year-old Jannai Dopwell-Bailey was stabbed to death in his school yard on Monday, October 18, Charla Dopwell heard about the video posted online that...

Balarama Holness does not go unnoticed
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Balarama Holness does not go unnoticed

“In many ways I’m the (personification) of Montreal: I am French and I am English, the child of a Quebecoise mother and an immigrant father. And I’m well-educated. I...

Keeton Clarke has big plans for the Sud-West and the city
Community News

Keeton Clarke has big plans for the Sud-West and the city

Community builder, Keeton Clarke has his eyes set on the Mayoral seat of the Sud-West borough on a Mouvement Montreal ticket. And he is looking forward to leading the...

Systemic racism: out of the mouths of babes
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Systemic racism: out of the mouths of babes

Recently I met with a former student of mine who is now an Elementary  school teacher.  She teaches a class of Grade 4 youngsters. She was anxious to share an...

Neighborhood issues on Stephanie King’s mind
Community News

Neighborhood issues on Stephanie King’s mind

Rosie Awori (LJI) Stephanie Henry King stands proudly on the foundation of her Little Burgundy upbringing. She credits the borough, which is considered one of Montreal’s first Black neighborhoods,...

Reggae superstar Jah Cure accused of stabbing promoter in the Netherlands
Entertainment

Reggae superstar Jah Cure accused of stabbing promoter in the Netherlands

On Friday, October 2, Jamaican Reggae artists Jah Cure is currently behind bars in the Netherlands, after being charged with suspicion of attempted murder, attempted manslaughter, aggravated assault or...