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

March 23, 2026 · 4 min · SIIIOCULI

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

March 23, 2026 · 3 min · SIIIOCULI

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

March 23, 2026 · 3 min · SIIIOCULI

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

March 22, 2026 · 8 min · SIIIOCULI

Since the Beginning of Time — Who Really Decided?

Colonization built the pillar of difference. But before pointing at a man, a color, an era - you need to understand how that pillar was constructed, and why it is still standing today. Since the beginning of time, there has been a tendency

March 22, 2026 · 4 min · SIIIOCULI
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