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By Sharry Aiken and Sean Rehaag Guest Writers The recent Ontario budget included a 30 per cent cut to legal aid. This will cause hardship for many low-income residents of Ontario, who are disproportionately drawn from racialized communities. Refugees are among ...

By Bruce M Biccard Guest Writer The in-hospital maternal mortality rate following a Caesarean delivery in Africa may be 50 times higher than in high-income countries. These were the findings of the African Surgical Outcomes Study that followed more than 3500 ...

    By Russell Cobb Guest Writer During the Cold War, socialism was portrayed as a gateway drug to communist orthodoxy. The crisis in Venezuela has resurrected tired old tropes about “pinks” and “useful idiots” who start out as democratic socialists, ...

By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator Here goes America once again! Suddenly the Democratic media complex has decided that former Vice-president, Joe Biden, has a creepiness problem. My immediate remonstrance is: Why now? What happened during the eight years, ...

By Charles Mwewa Guest Columnist There is a distinction between preaching and lecturing. Both are methodologies for speech delivery. Both are intended to impart new or existing knowledge, or to reiterate already available knowledge. Both involve the application of the ...

By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator The Democrats should not look askance, but start working work on improving their 2020 chance. Both the judge and the jury are out. Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, did not find that the Trump ...

By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator Once the news, about the college admissions scandals sting, Operation Varsity Blues, broke, the scheme — wherein rich parents have been accused of paying a college preparation organization to take tests for students ...

By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator Between May 2016 and April 2017 the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) put in motion a policy to provide 78 police officers with body cameras, as a means of ...

By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator The book, Hidden Figures, made its impact on the world in 2016. Authored by Margot Lee Shetterly, it relates the phenomenal, real-life account of four Black women — Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine ...

By Roberta K. Timothy Contributing Writer “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” ― Audre Lorde (Sister Outsider) Last year at the Golden Globes, many Hollywood actors got on stage in ...