By Gerald V. Paul “Harvesting freedom,” a migrant farm workers caravan, which left Leamington, Ontario on September 4 last , rolled through several agricultural communities in Southern Ontario this week on its 1,500- kilometre journey to Ottawa to present a petition to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Immigration Minister John McCallum. Justicia for Migrant Workers […]
By Gerald V. Paul As Panmasters Steel Orchestra, led by veteran pannist Tommy Crichlow, belted out ‘Solidarity Forever,’ 25,000 strong marched in Toronto’s Labour Day parade in which several groups from the Caribbean community were represented. Guyana-born Hassan Yussuff, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, CLC, told The Caribbean Camera in an interview at the […]
By Gerald V. Paul Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a blockade outside the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) headquarters in Mississauga, on Wednesday to protest of the death of Abdirahman Abdi. Abdi, a Somali-Canadian man, was shot by police in Ottawa last July 24 .The shooting drew renewed public criticism of the deaths of Black men […]
Jamaican farm workers who lost all their belongings in a fire which gutted their living quarters in Brant Country, Ontario on July 28 last, have high praise for donors who came to their assistance. After the fire,33 workers at Chary Produce, a fruit and vegetable operation in Mt. Pleasant, were left with just the clothes […]
The Urban Rez Solutions launched last Thursday their ‘Just Think 1st Initiative’ to mitigate incidents of gun violence in Toronto,. Eyesers will recall that many moons ago, in this column Eyes called for the issue of gun violence to be put on the front burner, as our community was fixated on racial profiling/carding. It’s about […]
By Gerald V. Paul Jamaica’s Minister of Labour and Social Security Shahine Robinson , currently on a North American tour, met on Monday with farm workers in Mt. Pleasant, Ontario whose living quarters were gutted in a fire on July 28 last. Thirty-three workers from Jamaica assigned to Chary Produce, a fruit and vegetable operation, […]
Mrs. Clinton, does Black Lives Matter to you? Dear Mrs. Hillary Clinton, Congratulations to you as by now you would have secured the nomination as the Democratic Party’s candidate for President of the United States of America and congratulations too on your selection of Tim Kaine as your “Running-Mate.” I do have some concerns though […]
Hundreds of concerned citizens, including black activists, showed up last Thursday at the first public meeting called by the recently-formed Ontario anti-racism directorate to discuss issues related to systemic racism. Addressing the meeting, amid some heckling, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynn told the gathering at Daniels Spectrum in Regent Park that ” this is not a […]
The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) is currently drafting a new policy on racial profiling. This policy will help organizations, legal decision-makers and affected community members to better identify, address and prevent racial profiling as racial discrimination under Ontario’s Human Rights Code. This was revealed by the OHRC’s Chief Commissioner Renu Mandhane, in its 2015-2016 […]
Members of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Toronto staged a sit-in at the Pride Toronto parade on Sunday, bringing it to a halt for about half an hour. Alexandra Williams, a co-founder of BLM Toronto, said that they held the sit-in because they wanted to hold Pride Toronto accountable for “anti-blackness.” “We are not taking any space […]
