Birth of a Culture: Hip-Hop

03/21/2022 The Social Eyes 0

By Maxime Beauregard-Martin The hip-hop movement was born in the Bronx, a New York borough deserted by the middle class in the 1970s. Extremely poor neighborhoods developed, populated principally by Afro-Americans, Puerto Ricans and people from the Caribbean. Inspired by the Jamaican tradition of open […] See more

Young Rappers Make Their Mark

03/20/2022 The Social Eyes 0

Bling-Bling for the Bourgeoisie By Maxime Beauregard Martin Don’t look for Calamine to sing the praises of money and material gain in her rap lyrics. This young woman of 29 is refreshing all the usual mainstream rap themes with her feminist, anti-capitalist take on things. […] See more

The Fight – Poetry

03/18/2022 Raymond Viger 0

A poem from the book Liberté – Un sourire intérieur (Freedom – an Inner Smile) by Raymond Viger An anthology of poems to meditate upon. Each poem reveals a message, an emotion. The same poem can take on a different color, depending on your state of […] See more

A Flame – Poetry

03/11/2022 Raymond Viger 0

A poem from the book Liberté – Un sourire intérieur (Freedom – an Inner Smile) An anthology of poems to meditate upon. Each poem reveals a message, an emotion. The same poem can take on a different color, depending on your state of mind. By […] See more

First Nations Behind Bars

03/07/2022 Delphine Caubet 0

The numbers are alarming. In Canada, Indigenous persons represent 4% of the population. But in jail, they represent 23% of the male prison population and a third of females behind bars. And this overrepresentation is only growing. Proof: over the last 10 years the number […] See more

The Risks of Street Social Work

03/04/2022 Raymond Viger 0

I’ve disarmed people. I’ve put myself between two people who wanted to take each other’s head off … But that’s not the worst of it. By Raymond Viger  As a street social worker, I’ve said for a long time that in my line of work […] See more

The Ostrich Strategy

02/28/2022 The Social Eyes 0

If we believe the old saying, “Bury your head in the sand,” thinking it has something to do with ostriches, we’ll miss seeing the obvious question this raises. Do ostriches really bury their head in the sand when threatened? The Rumor Detector looks into this […] See more