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Blacks in Montreal have been fighting a pandemic that predates COVID-19: racism by the police. By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist “Racism is traumatic for people of color. Everything that you have to carry around anyway, as a Black person, to ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Another day in the United States of America; another White cop around; another Black man, face down on the ground; another mournful alert, about failing breath — all translated into yet, another death. Take it ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist The present pandemic is not without its accompanying ills, daily worsening with the prolongation of the imposed lockdown. This year, the Canadian Mental Health Association celebrated, from May 4 to May 10, Mental Health Week ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Even in the best of times, working in healthcare is not easy. This current pandemic has stressed our healthcare systems, causing medical care to look greatly different than what we are used to. Around the ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist While the coronavirus is non-discriminatory, Blacks are more likely to die, because they bear the pre-existing condition, known as race. It has a greater impact on those, who our society has discriminated against, for hundreds ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist As the pandemic drags on, we are all enormously happy, and grateful, for the innovative ways, by which our front-line workers — including doctors, nurses and medical technicians, who risk their lives, on a daily ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Viruses are in no way picky. They devastate neighborhoods and nations, infecting whomever they can, and the new Coronavirus is, by no means, an exception. The ravages and pain of the present pandemic is already ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist After almost two months-plus into a worldwide coronavirus lockdown, medical personnel believe that the pandemic has brought about a silent sub-epidemic of people, who need care at hospitals, but are afraid to go in. Yes, ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Let me confess, up front: I am anxious about going to public places now. I am standing in line, looking at the person in front of me, and listening to the one behind me for ...

“A nation’s greatness is judged by how it treats its weakest members” — Mahatma Gandhi By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist In the midst of the current pandemic, the words emanating from the lips of relatives, shocked Quebecers, and throughout the ...