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 lawyer Fernando Belton, the plaintiff, whose identity remains protected by a court order, has brought forward a lawsuit to address what he perceives as unjust […]
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 Adriana Jackson was bored. So she started a small online business, selling accessories such as bows, headbands and scrunchies. Adriana also gives credit to both […]
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 now as I write this, I do not understand why news of his passing has shaken me so much. Both personally, and as the current […]
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 reflect a more accurate account of police stops in the city, using the open-data research initiative to collect information about the nature of the stops […]
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 gathered in Pierrefonds-Roxboro for an event geared specifically toward teenagers and other youth. Kayla Johnson, a 16-year-old high school student, said she feels she has […]
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 this year. Holness, the 37-year-old political activist and community organizer who once played professional football for the #Allouettes, made the announcement outside City Hall last […]
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. A news release from IRCC notes that last August, Immigragtion Minister Marco Mendicino had announced the government’s intention to implement this special measure and that […]
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 working in the health-care system during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frantz Andre, who advocates on behalf of asylum seekers, says the decision has heightened the feelings […]
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 killed on Oct. 29 in Montreal’s Cote-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grace borough. The Bureau has set up a command post in the neighbourhood to receive information about the shooting. […]
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 is based on a bylaw adopted by New York City and would be the first in Canada to address the use of facial recognition technology […]
