[WATCH] “We are not a homogenous group”: INNterview with Professor Carl James on Africentric schools, educational reform for Black students

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. — Langston Hughes, “Dreams” As our society adapts to what we call “the new normal,” it leads us to reflect on what we […]
Kenyan woman morphs plastics waste into material stronger than concrete

UN award winner innovates recycling process that creates bricks with amazing strength
UAE makes history as first Arab country to go to outer space

Hope, the unmanned probe, travelled 300 million miles to reach Mars’ orbit. The two-year mission comes with a $200 million price tag.
Ontario mom fined $880 for having her in-laws babysit their grandkids

By her account, she was dropping her children off to their grandparents’ house for childcar
Supporters rally and round dance to help Mi’kmaq lobster fishers fight for treaty rights

TORONTO—Promptly at 3:46 PM on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, upwards of a hundred participants of First Nations’ Land Defenders formed a multi-layered circle at the north-west quadrant of Yonge-Dundas Square. Encouraged by mild Fall weather, the considerable turnout slowly grew under the watchful gaze of a significant police presence. Forty-five minutes before the event began […]
[WATCH] Randy Hillier hosts secret gathering in defiance of lockdown measures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSMnlomN8po&t=886s Despite large gatherings being declared illegal by the government, a crowd of a hundred gathered to hear speakers Randy Hillier, Rocco Galati and Maxime Bernier on the COVID-19 measures. At 10:00am on October 21, 2020, an unmasked crowd was gathered north of Queen’s Park Boulevard, at the rear of Edward the VII’s equestrian statue. […]