Posted by Melissa Wah
Features
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Her responses to my questions are quick, the more angry she gets the more he curly hair bobs around round. She talks so quick that sometimes she slips from English back in to French. “She said I would never be accepted into that family because I am French,” said Michelle Gallant, about her boyfriend’s mother, [...]
Posted by Melissa Wah
Features, This Week's Edition
Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Like a chameleon the Internet is always changing and shifting,which means the way we communicate is always changing too. Twelve years ago there was only a select group of people who controlled the content on the Internet. Only those who could afford to hire a technology expert, trained in HTML coding, controlled the content on [...]
Posted by Melissa Wah
News, This Week's Edition
Sunday, January 24th, 2010

There was a surprising calmness in Vanessa Michel’s voice, so calm that one might forget what we were talking about. She says it’s her faith that is helping her in the wait to hear from her sister who lives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “I am a devote Christian, so I am really praying. That’s the only [...]
Posted by Melissa Wah
Opinion, This Week's Edition
Friday, January 22nd, 2010

The tone for the Internet has already been set. Free and fast. If your product is not, people will simply find somewhere else to get what they want. So this business model of charging for online news content is going to leave publishers looking like Enron. Just yesterday, The New York Times told readers that [...]
Posted by Melissa Wah
Uncategorized
Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Next week The Beacon’s Ayat Abed Isaid will have an exclusive radio interview with Abousfian Abdelrazik, where he will talk about the time he spent in prison and his journey to freedom. Check back Wednesday for the full interview.