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By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist On Wednesday December 18, 2019, President Donald John Trump, the 45th and current president of the United States, became the third president, after Andrew Johnson and William Clinton, to be impeached. President Trump is accused ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Come January 20, (the third Monday of the month) Dr. Martin Luther King Day will be celebrated in both Canada and America. Every year, along with our American neighbours, we go through the ritual of ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist I have been conducting some ongoing observations, which I will share, but with a warning that my manner of communication may be construed as being somewhat direct. However, understanding is requested, for I am just ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist On December 19, the day after US President, Donald J. Trump, was impeached by the House for abuse of power, the Democratic presidential candidates held their final debate of the year at Loyola Marymount University ...

What can you do on the first day of a New Year that you were not capable of doing 12 months ago? By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist The great Roman Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, cautioned that as humans we cannot control ...

Remember that the holidays can be a toxic time of the year for some By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist It is that time of the year when we get inundated with Christmas special reruns, inundated with holiday cheer, remakes of ...

By Roberta K. Timothy Guest Writer As soon as I entered Elmina Castle (the dungeons) in Cape Coast in Ghana, I felt haunted by over 400 years of brutality and the enslavement and genocide of millions of African and Indigenous peoples. ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist The movie Harriet — the first feature length film to capture the most quintessential female abolitionist, suffragist and activist in American history — may have been succinctly used by Hollywood to propagate longstanding myths, playing ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Writer Electronic nicotine-delivery systems, electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), or vapes, are a relatively new product category, which first emerged in Canada in 2004. E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that mimic the smoking experience, using an inhalation and heating ...

By Annan Boodram Guest Writer A few days ago, a Guyanese-American man murdered his wife and then hanged himself. According to a co-worker of the deceased, “It was noted that Dojoy (the wife) would tell her friends that Budhidat (the ...