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“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” — Carl Bard By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist One of the headlines in today’s Toronto Star newspaper ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Demonstrations and violent riots alike, erupted across US and Canadian cities, in response to police brutality and the murder, or public lynching, of a Black American, George Floyd, in Minneapolis on May 25. Three police ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist I am watching as various classes of elites, politicians and top-ranking public figures succinctly drive this country, and its Black population, deeper into conflict and division, on account of mere interpretation and denial. The term, ...

By Liam Petterson Guest Contributor The protests against systemic racism and police violence sweeping the globe highlight the intersection between two pandemics: COVID-19 and racism. Researchers are pointing out that structural inequalities mean people of colour are hit harder by the ...

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 ...