MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA – Marianna Naturals Corp. is pleased to announce that it has been approved as a Best Buy Marketplace Seller as of May 17th, 2021. Contrary to everyone’s belief, Best Buy boasts various products other than electronics in their marketplace including skincare. With over 250 million annual visits and 2.3 million orders per year, the Best Buy platform is an excellent opportunity for driving revenue and increasing growth and awareness for the brand.  Read More

MONTREAL -- In a push to be more diverse, the Longueuil Police Service wants to recruit more officers from minority communities, a strategy that the police chief hopes will also build trust among youth. "We always have to try to build some bridges between us and the youth, sometimes [there is] a lack of trust. So it's our responsibility as a police department to be able to get closer and closer to the community," police chief Fady Dagher said in an interview with CTV Montreal. "We need diversity in the police force."  Read More

Self confidence is key. It is not about how you look on the outside, it’s how you feel on the inside. That sounds so cliché right but the energy you give off when you are self-confident is really powerful and attracts others, money and big opportunities! As a part of our series about how technology will be changing the beauty industry over the next five years I had the pleasure of interviewing Heather Marianna, who originally skyrocketed in popularity with the launch of her Beauty Kitchen YouTube series in 2012, where she showcased simple DIY beauty recipes made with common kitchen household ingredients. She quickly generated a powerful following of more than 3 million viewers.  Read More

PAR LIGUE DES NOIRS DU QUÉBEC, FÉVRIER 2, 2021 Le fait qu’un avocat ait récemment été victime de profilage racial n’est que la partie visible de l’iceberg. Il y a eu d’autres victimes de profilage racial depuis la nouvelle politique d’interpellation du Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM). Cette politique n’était qu’une façade et une insulte à l’intelligence des citoyens et des élus. En 2020, la Ligue des Noirs du Québec et plusieurs élus ont été contraints de contester publiquement le contenu déficient de la nouvelle politique d’arrestation policière du SPVM. La problématique demeure en 2021. Dans le contexte où le SPVM était visé par le profilage racial pour discrimination systémique, le directeur de la police du SPVM a déclaré publiquement en 2019 qu’il faudrait du temps pour changer la culture policière au Québec :  Read More

PRESS RELEASE THE AARON RAND SHOW Monday, December 28th 2020 - 6:24 pm Dan Delmar in conversation with his Most Fascinating Montrealer's of 2020 on the Aaron Rand Show over the holidays. Fo Niemi is the co-founder and executive director of the Center for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR) and Joel DeBellefeuille is an entrepreneur who was at the centre of a racial profiling case for nearly a decade before ultimately winning the case in recent weeks.  Read More

Still, Premier François Legault continued to deny its existence in Quebec. Author of the article: Marian Scott • Montreal Gazette Publishing From worldwide protest over the killing of George Floyd to a scathing report on racism and discrimination at the city of Montreal, 2020 marked a long overdue awakening on systemic racism. But that awakening had its limits, as demonstrated by Premier François Legault’s continuing refusal to acknowledge systemic racism, or in fact even say the words. Here are some of the defining events in a year when issues of racism and discrimination moved to centre stage:  Read More