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Why its great: American streaming service Tubi, owned by Fox, only recently came to Canada. Browsing its offering of TV and movies feels reminiscent of exploring someones DVD collection, with titles like Rush Hour, Deep Impact and Gladiator. But dont be fooled, this collection has some hidden gems, including black-and-white classics, Bollywood films and indie movies. Like CBC Gem and Revry, Tubi is ad-supported so watching for free will include the occasional commercial break.   Viewing su...

Journalist John Ware is suing Press Gangs Paddy French over a Panorama film French claimed Wares BBC documentary Is Labour Anti-Semitic? bent the truth He wrote article Is The BBC Anti-Labour? and sent it to BBC staff and other press High Court judge broadly agreed with Wares view article accused him of being a rogue journalist who had engaged in dirty tricks

There is significant room for growth in teaching Black history within Alberta schools. That’s the prevailing thought discovered after speaking with several people, younger and older, about how Black history is presented in the current K-12 curriculum. Black History Month is internationally recognized during February, but the province’s curriculum, which hasn’t changed since 2005, doesn’t mandate that any specifics be taught about Black history. It was constructed that way so teachers co...

Calgarys Decidedly Jazz Danceworks is one of two Canadian companies featured in an award-winning documentary that explores the history of jazz.

Calgarys Decidedly Jazz Danceworks is one of two Canadian companies featured in an award-winning documentary that explores the history of jazz.

Ironically, “cowboy” itself was once quite racially specific—and demeaning. And not just Anglo ranch hands. Estimates of the number of Black cowboys in the post–Civil War cattle drives range up to 6,000. A quarter or more of the cowboys during the era of the great round-ups and drives were African American, Mexican, or Native American. But ironically, “cowboy” itself was once quite racially specific—and demeaning. In antebellum Texas, when slaves were as likely to be forced to wor...

February is Black History Month, and a local illustrator and animator has been hard at work on a newly released kid-friendly video telling the story of an…

An Emotional Documentary About Canada’s Legendary Black Cowboy Is Streaming Free Now One of many formerly enslaved Black people who left the U.S. to make the Prairies home, John Ware was one of Albertas most influential cattle ranchers at the turn of the 19th century. Laila El Mugammar Updated Rodeo champion Fred Whitfield as John Ware. (Photo: Shaun Robinson) The early settlements of Western Canada I constructed in my imagination have always been white. In history textbooks...

Saint John, NB, Canada / The Wave Feb 7, 2021 9:56 AM Saint John Newcomers Centres first Black History month screening, Kenbe la, jusquà la victoire (Kenbe La, Until We Win) (submitted) The Saint John Newcomers Centre hosted its first viewing party of films celebrating black culture on Zoom in honor of Black History Month on Friday. The films will be streamed every Friday throughout February and alternate between in French and English-language audio, with respective subtitles, in support of th...

Kitson And Counter-Revolution! ‘Kitson and Counter-Revolution’ was first featured by News Line on 30th April 2015. We are producing it once again because the British state is now preparing to use Kitson methods against the working class in the UK, Ireland and elsewhere. THIS week it emerged that retired British general Sir Frank Kitson is to be sued by the widow of a Catholic worker murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1973. Eugene ‘Paddy’ Heenan was a building worker who was killed w...