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Black Montrealers, blindsided by new provincial street check policy, say it needs rewriting
Defunding police isn't the answer, there's a fundamental imbalance that must be fixed
It's Time To Stop Calling Diverse Groups Of People 'Minorities'
My Quebec: Black, anglophone and feeling doubly unwelcome
Tired of systemic racism and the refusal to name it
Biography
Yvonne Sam is a retired head nurse and secondary school teacher who has spent decades writing on social issues for media worldwide. She graduated from McGill University with a Master’s Degree in Education, Concordia University with a Diploma in Adult Education and from Athabasca University in Alberta with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. She also holds the title of State Registered Nurse, State Certified Midwife and State Registered Mental Nurse from England, having resided there for over thirteen years.
She is a regular columnist for the local community newspaper Montreal Community Contact, and this is the medium used to touch the lives of so many individuals and families through her incursive forthrightly columns on family life, community, educational and social issues.
To her literary accomplishments, Sam published Life's Many Faces, a book of poetry, won the Editor’s Choice Award from the National Library of Poetry in the US, and has publications in Quill Books of Harlingen, Texas. Her most recent book, Behind the Scenes in Nursing, is awaiting publication. She is the recipient of the 2014 Governor General of Canada Caring Citizen Award and nominee for the 2019 Quebec Prix de la Justice.