On Feb. 25, 2025, Justice Minister and Attorney General Arif Virani released, Toward Transformative Change: an Implementation Plan for Canada’s Black Justice Strategy. The plan sets a ten-year framework...

Salutations Everyone, I hope you’re all enjoying the start of summer! Montreal is a beautiful city—minus the constant construction—and it’s even more vibrant and alive in the summertime. There’s...

Apply the term “racist” or any similar moniker to my name, bearing in mind that I reside in Quebec and that even after a coroner’s report into the death...

Jacqueline Beckles remembers the first time she failed a course in law school. Criminal law, ironically, the subject she would later make the centerpiece of her legal career. She...

Visual artist Marc-Alain Félix uses acrylics, oil pastels, and markers to create art surrounding memory, identity, and resilience. His work explores the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, emphasizing human...

Recently I watched on television the president of the United States flipping pages and showing pictures depicting atrocities meted out to white families by Blacks in South Africa. His...

By Desirée Zagbai A new mobile app called the ‘Business Reference App’ is set to launch on May. 30, 2025, during a public event at Concordia University’s D3 Innovation...

On April. 13, 2025, The Afro Youth Summit and the Observatory of Black Communities in Quebec revealed a study highlighting the daily discrimination Black youth in Quebec keep experiencing....

Jean Parris, a dedicated advocate for women, immigrants, and nurses, was awarded the 2024 Governor General’s Award last October. This was given to her in recognition of her lifelong...

I sat down to write this article about “rest” about 3 weeks ago, and then I got some news that turned my world upside down, and made time stop...