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When Amazon Left Quebec, the Premier Talked About Hockey

On January 22, 2025, Amazon announced it was shutting down all seven of its Quebec warehouses. Over 1,700 permanent staff and 250 temporary employees were being let go (The Globe and Mail) - with the real number of affected workers, includi

A Small Gesture. A Big Statement

It was not a grand moment. No cameras. No audience. No reason for anyone to perform anything. Two female officers responded to the call. Both Caucasian. They arrived, assessed the situation, took the report. Standard procedure. The kind of

The Story That Could Have Been Told Differently

Think about how easily this story flips. Same SAQ. Same neighborhood. Same theft. Change one detail - the appearance of the person walking out with that bottle - and suddenly there is a news segment. A tweet that goes viral. A comment secti

First Hours on the Job. First Thief. Not Who You Expected.

First day. First hours. New post, new branch, new faces. The neighborhood is majority Black. Afro-Caribbean, Haitian, Congolese, Jamaican - a community that has been in Montreal long enough to know exactly how they get treated when they wal

The Guard Is There. But Don't Expect Much.

There is a uniform. There is a badge. There is a person standing near the entrance, arms crossed, eyes scanning the room. It looks like security. It feels like security. It is, by every legal definition in the province of Quebec, almost ent

The Vampire in the SAQ: Who's Really Stealing in Montreal?

There is a story nobody in Quebec wants to tell out loud. Not because it is complicated. But because it destroys a narrative that too many people have been comfortable with for too long. It happened in a SAQ branch in Montreal. A neighborho

The Corruption Nobody in Black America Wants to Name

There is a version of Black America that is celebrated loudly. The protest signs. The hashtags. The viral dances. The slogans on T-shirts that sell for forty dollars. And underneath all of it, a community that has been robbed twice - first

"America Has Never Even Visited My Country." — The Most Expensive Sentence You Can Say Out of Ignorance.

It sounds like a comeback. It reads like confidence. It is one of the most historically incorrect statements an African citizen can make - and the consequences of not knowing this are not academic. They are alive right now, in your country,

"I Would Never Live There." — The Statement That Insults the Wrong People.

An African citizen declares they would never live in America. Fair enough. But who exactly did they just talk about - and did they mean to? “I’ve always said - where they don’t love me, I’ll never set foot there to live. Maybe tourism. But

Of Course They Respect You. You're Making Them Rich.

Foreigners smile at Africa. They speak softly. They bring cameras and handshakes and development programs. And then they leave with everything that was under the ground. The respect was never for the people. It was for the inventory. Someon