Ontario Education Minister Mitzie Hunter warns that York Region District school board cannot move forward until trustee Nancy Elgie resigns. Angry York residents had demanded Elgie’s resignation for calling a black parent a nigger. The parent, Jamaica-born Charline Grant said that during a public meeting last November, Elgie used the racial slur which was […]
Black people in Canada are at greater risk than others of developing chronic medical conditions that can be traced to lifestyles, lack of proper nutrition, employment and physical activities. So says Liben Gebremikael, the Ethiopia-born Executive Director of TAIBU Community Health Centre in the Malvern neighbourhood in Toronto. (TAIBU is a greeting in Swahili which […]
Greg Fergus, the Liberal MP for Hull-Aylmer, Quebec, tells a story of what it was like as a black person growing up in white Montreal. Speaking at the Malvern Presbyterian church in Toronto on Saturday at a celebration to mark Black History Month and the 150th anniversary of Confederation, he recalled an incident when he […]
By Meegan Scott There is a sentiment within and outside the black community that blacks do not know how to love. That we do not know how to love in a way that can sustain long lasting romantic unions, family harmony; and peaceful communities. But the Black Language of Love is rich in verbal and […]
Every human being on the face of the earth who has already passed the standard age for admission to primary school should see and hear the History lesson delivered by Mallence Bart-Williams at TEDx Berlin in 2015. It is no secret that, in spite of decades of multiculturalism as official government policy, Canada still has […]
The final report of the Transformational Task Force on policing in Toronto, released on January 25 last, has drawn widespread comments in Toronto’s Caribbean community. While many in the community welcome the idea of a “neighbourhood-centric” approach to policing and a change in police culture recommended in the “Action Plan: The Way Forward,” as the […]
A Toronto-based folk and spiritual choir will join more than a dozen persons, many of them professional and business leaders, who will receive “awards for excellence” at the 32nd annual gala of the African Canadian Achievement Awards (ACAA) organization. The gala will be held at the Jane Mallett Theatre (inside the St.Lawrence Centre for the […]
Ontario’s education minister Mitzie Hunter has ordered an “urgent review” of the York Region District School Board which she said failed to adequately address governance and equity issues. In a statement issued last Thursday, the minister said she has appointed two people to conduct the review: Patrick Case, a law professor and former trustee with […]
Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade, called on a gathering at the annual Ontario Black History Society (OBHS) brunch on Sunday to rise up and fight injustice and create “a future that has humanity, compassion and peace.” “Rise up, lock arms with our brothers and sisters and ensure that injustice never […]
Kaiso aficionados, community leaders, representatives of cultural organizations and friends of the late Dick Lochan packed the hall of the Chinese Cultural Centre in Scarborough on Sunday to bid farewell to the man popularly known in calypso circles as ” De Juiceman.” Lochan who often presided at calypso shows as MC, would himself have been […]
