By David Jessop Middle-ranking powers are emerging as important policy arbiters. They are seeking global outcomes that better respond to their own interests as China and the US become the dominant global economic actors, each offering competing approaches to development. This will not just further reorder the post-cold-war world but will make the Caribbean’s regional […]
Former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, who seemed to have taken the vow of silence when it comes to commenting on political matters, must be tempted to speak out on Premier Ford’s plans to build houses on the Greenbelt. It was McGuinty, then premier in 2005, who passed a law to protect 800,000 hectares of what […]
Black community disagrees London’s police union says it’s time to bring back a program that places police officers in schools, but a parent and activist argues the move would be step back for London’s Black community. The London Police Association has posted an online petition arguing that the student resource officer (SRO) program should be reinstated. […]
OTTAWA — Former governor general Michaelle Jean was among dozens of high-profile signatories to an open letter issued last week calling for international help for Haiti. The letter in French, with the title “Taken hostage, Haiti is dying” argues that Haiti needs help to avoid becoming a failed state. The signatories include Senegalese President Macky […]
Montreal’s Moise Bombito, a junior defender at the University of New Hampshire, has been selected third overall by the Colorado Rapids at the MLS SuperDraft. Bombito was named 2022 America East Defender of the Year and a second-team all-American selection, after helping lead a defence that ranked third in the NCAA with a 0.5 […]
The government of Barbados is considering plans to make a wealthy Conservative MP the first individual to pay reparations for his ancestor’s pivotal role in slavery. Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, recently travelled to the Caribbean island for a private meeting with the country’s prime minister, Mia Mottley. A report is now before Mottley’s […]
Six institutions from Argentina, Brazil, Haiti, México and Perú will receive research grants for topics related to Tuberculosis and other opportunistic infections in advanced HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and Human T cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV-1), which may cause a type of cancer. These grants of around 30,000 dollars are provided as part of the […]
A retired London, Ontario, teacher and vice principal is travelling to her native Nigeria this week for the grand re-opening of her childhood elementary school. Liz Akano runs a non-profit called Educate the Children, where she has been raising money for nearly two decades to rebuild the school. “I went home to visit my home country in Nigeria […]
Black advocates say they are happy Halifax police forces have committed to keeping street-check data for now, but are calling for a real plan to safeguard the records for years to come. The heads of both Halifax Regional Police (HRP) and Halifax RCMP spoke to the city’s Board of Police Commissioners Wednesday about concerns that […]
It was supposed to be a program to help Black federal civil servants suffering from the trauma and stress of racism — but it was itself hit by allegations of racism before it even began. Black federal civil servants who are developing a mental health action plan for their colleagues say they’re facing anti-Black racism from senior government […]
