Coteau announces Black Youth Action plan An Ontario Black Youth Action Plan with a four -year funding commitment of $47 million, aimed at increasing access to supports and opportunities for Black children and youth , was announced on Tuesday by Michael Coteau, Minister Responsible for Anti-Racism. The Action Plan is part of a broader three-year […]
Grammy award-winning singer Rihanna ( Robyn Rihanna Fenty)has been honoured by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations for her philanthropic work to improve cancer treatment in her native Barbados and in support of education projects. Rihanna who has set up a college scholarship program to help students from the Caribbean further their studies […]
This week’s question: A report released last week by the University of Toronto’s International Human Rights Program indicates that since 2011, Canada has housed more than 200 Canadian children in detention in Toronto’s Immigration Holding Centre. Should children, Canadian or non-Canadian, be confined in immigration detention facilities? Jasmine Gabriel Professional Track and Field Athlete I […]
HAMILTON, Ont. – Several outstanding members of Hamilton’s black community were honoured on Saturday evening at the annual John C. Holland Awards presentation at LIUNA Station. This year’s event marked the 21st edition of the awards presentation named after Holland who served as pastor of Hamilton’s Stewart Memorial church known for its connection to the […]
A report released on Thursday by the University of Toronto’s International Human Rights Program (IHRP) calls on the Canadian government to implement urgently alternatives to the detention of children rather than confining them in immigration holding facilities or separating them from their detained parents. The report titled Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in Immigration Detention notes […]
By Meegan Scott Blacks are headed towards a more persistent state of social and economic decline, if not the collapse of black communities. This is the story presented in all the major reports on economic wellbeing and the racial wealth gap— that I have read. Predictions of our future as a cataclysm is highly probable. […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Country singer Willie Nelson, the children of the late reggae icon Bob Marley and comedian Whoopi Goldberg are just a few of the growing number of celebrities publicly jumping into the marijuana industry and eyeing the California pot market, which is expected to explode after voters legalized the recreational use of weed. […]
This week’s question: At recent events in Toronto to celebrate Black History Month, various speakers complained that not only were African Canadian children overrepresented in Ontario’s child welfare system but that African Canadians who come in contact with the system are treated differently than their White counterparts. How do you feel about these claims? […]
By Judy Pham Black Lives Matter Toronto was praised for its activist role in the community at a Black History Month Symposium last week at York University. The two-day symposium on ” The Evolving Meaning of Blackness in Canada ” held on February 17 and 18, explored Black identity in the Canadian context. The […]
Canadians have once again good reason to hang their heads in shame. A whole caucus of politicians has failed to support a motion in Parliament aimed at roundly condemning an act of blatantly racist violence. The motion in question was motivated by the recent violent attack at a mosque in Quebec, in which a White […]
