In a recent development, a Black Montreal police officer has taken legal action against four provincial counterparts and Quebec’s attorney general, alleging racial profiling in an off-duty encounter. Represented by […]
Adriana Jackson runs a small, part-time business and donates to local groups. It was the spring of 2020. A global pandemic had just been declared; schools were closed, and nine-year-old […]
Last Tuesday, Kent Merchant, popularly known as Love Man Kent, of Montreal, was alive, well and in his prime. But by Wednesday, he was no longer with us. And even […]
Starting this Wednesday, Montrealers who are stopped by police, or who have been stopped in the past, can self-report their experience via an online interactive map. The goal is to […]
Two Montreal community groups held a rally in the Montreal’s West Island last Saturday to denounce acts of violence and racism close to home and abroad. Hundreds of people […]
MONTREAL – #Balarama Holness who is reported to be ” a distant cousin” of Jamaica’s Prime Minister #Andrew Holness, has announced his candidacy in Montreal’s mayoral race set for November […]
OTTAWA – Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has started accepting applications for permanent residence from refugee claimants who work in Canada’s health-care sector and provide direct care to patients. […]
MONTREAL — Refugee advocates are criticizing Canada’s decision to resume deportations before the country irons out the details of a program to grant permanent residency to asylum-seekers who have been […]
MONTREAL — Quebec’s police watchdog, the Independent Investigation Bureau, is looking for people who witnessed police shoot a Black man in Montreal last month. Sheffield Matthews, 41, was shot and […]
MONTREAL — A Montreal city councillor said he will introduce a motion shortly to restrict the use of facial recognition and other “invasive” surveillance technologies by city police. The motion […]