Quebec’s systemic discrimination and racism hearings should be open Opinions

Quebec’s systemic discrimination and racism hearings should be open

Testimony has a greater impact if one can see and hear the person testifying. The hearings are an opportunity to heighten public awareness. The Quebec inquiry on systemic discrimination...

Racism In Your Face Opinions

Racism In Your Face

In a world where [some] Europeans think we do not belong… it’s always about Black people standing our ground and staking out our rightful place. Contrast what many described...

Charlottesville: America the Real versus America the Ideal Opinions

Charlottesville: America the Real versus America the Ideal

America’s historic embrace of the Confederate flag is indicative of a collective failure to eradicate white supremacy as an ideology, and is in great part contributory to the recent...

Stress: Our path to early death Opinions

Stress: Our path to early death

I have become accustomed to listen to early morning radio, not necessarily to be entertained, but to hear what’s in the news every given day. And three particular stations...

Our Racial Conundrum:  Intersections and Parallels Opinions

Our Racial Conundrum: Intersections and Parallels

Racism has been with us for generations and every effort to mitigate this “cancer” has failed By Bongs Lainjo In one of my articles published by the Montreal Gazette,...

After the Commission— Would Racism be in Remission? Opinions

After the Commission— Would Racism be in Remission?

Thursday, May 20, saw Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion Minister Kathleen Weil unveiling plans for the public consultation on systemic discrimination and racism in Quebec, which is scheduled to begin...

Quebec gov’t targets systemic racism
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Quebec gov’t targets systemic racism

Consultations will be launched in September Egbert Gaye When it comes to racism in Quebec, go to the facts for evidence, although much of it is anecdotal because in...

More studying and consulting Opinions

More studying and consulting

About race, racism, ethnocentrism… “Québec veut ouvrir le dialogue sur le racisme systématique…” screamed a headline on the cover page of last weekend’s Metro newspaper. It’s like a rite...

Is this exercise yet another reporting charade? Or is a change within range? Opinions

Is this exercise yet another reporting charade? Or is a change within range?

Quebec launches Public Consultation on Systemic Racism and Discrimination Yvonne Sam Finally, Quebec is moving in step with her neighbour, Ontario, in the aftermath of a 2,662-signature petition tabled...

A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES Opinions

A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES

By Rasta KEITH During the last several weeks, news of the return of an American university student to the United States after his release from imprisonment in the Democratic...