Tina Turner made her mark
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Tina Turner made her mark

The world mourned the passing of Tina Turner on May 24 at the age of 83 at her home in Switzerland after a long a complicated illness. With a...

About GOLDEN HANDCUFFS and systemic racism
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About GOLDEN HANDCUFFS and systemic racism

“Golden Handcuffs” is a generic term describing a wide range of compensation plans designed to incentivize top employees to stay with the company for the long term. Following the...

City Hall responds to the uproar about Carifiesta
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City Hall responds to the uproar about Carifiesta

Ericka Alneus, is the executive committee member at the City of Montreal in charge of Culture and Heritage. She is of Haitian descent and recently had to make one...

Caren Mellow is Serious about Mental Health Awareness
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Caren Mellow is Serious about Mental Health Awareness

Nompumelelo Moyo (LJI) We all know a person or family struggling with mental health issues but Caren Mellow has a front row view having worked as a psychiatric nurse...

QBBE still on guard for our students
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QBBE still on guard for our students

The Quebec Board of Black Educators (QBBE) has long been a pillar of support for Quebec students. As the summer approaches, the organization is getting ready to kick off...

CCFA: Weaponized incompetence collides with callous disregard
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CCFA: Weaponized incompetence collides with callous disregard

The uproar that followed the recent announcement by the City of Montreal to pull the funding of the 2023 edition of Carifiesta is an interesting one. Cries of racism...

CANADIAN PUBLIC SERVICE NOT A HAPPY WORKPLACE FOR BLACKS Opinions

CANADIAN PUBLIC SERVICE NOT A HAPPY WORKPLACE FOR BLACKS

Included among the multitude of issues that are on the table for negotiations in the ongoing strike by more than 100,000 federal government workers represented by the Public Service...

Of racial nepotism and other hypocrisies
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Of racial nepotism and other hypocrisies

In his book Ethnic Conflicts Explained by Ethnic Nepotism, sociologist Tatu Vanhanen describes the term “ethnic nepotism” as a human tendency toward in-group bias or favoritism among people of...

Premier Francois Legault has mastered the politics of division
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Premier Francois Legault has mastered the politics of division

Following his Easter Monday tweet claiming Catholicism as part of this province’s heritage, Quebec Premier Francois is doing his very best to be seen as an equal opportunity offender...

Black Police Officers: To be blue and Black
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Black Police Officers: To be blue and Black

The presage Black police officers have to negotiate and reconcile on two historically distinct strivings… to be “blue” and to be “black” — in one “dark body. Before arriving...