Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dube yesterday called on the Ministry of Community Safety and CorrectionalServices to save lives by requiring police to use de-escalation techniques in conflict situations before resorting to lethal force. .Dube was speaking at the release yesterday at Queen’s Park of “A Matter Of Life and Death,” an investigation into the direction provided […]
Austin Clark was born Barbados in 1934 and then went to Canada, in 1955. While in Canada he attended a university. Clark has worked as a broadcaster, a professor, and a civil rights leader. His works exhibit the poverty of peasants in Barbados and his immigrant experiences to Canada. Austin Clark died today in […]
By Gerald V. Paul Toronto Black advocate Osborne Barnwell has lashed out at managers in the public service who are perpetuating anti-black racism, ” apparently knowing that they can do so with impunity.” Barnwell was speaking at Toronto City Hall yesterday at the official launch of the campaign by justice4blacks@work, a recently- formed coalition of […]
The funeral took place last Friday of the former three-time world heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali, the self-proclaimed and for many, ‘The Greatest of all Time’, in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. It fulfilled its promise as a most watched television event, fittingly. And even though it is an invidious task to try to add to […]
By Nora Loreto The Orlando massacre is heartbreaking. As details emerge about the victims, as their humanity shines through their images and stories, as we hear about the children, parents, friends and lovers they leave behind, trying to make sense of what is so obviously senseless seems futile. Mainstream media and politicians of all stripes, […]
Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) told The Camera they are pleased with the Jermaine Carby coroner’s inquest’s 14 recommendations, some of which highlighted that officers’ unconscious racial bias played a role in his death. Those recommendations were made to avoid future fatalities in similar circumstances. In what BADC representatives said was confirmation of their position, […]
By Gerald V. Paul “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it,”- Malcolm X (as seen in the ACLC office). Malcolm X’s mother Louise Little was born in Grenada, came to Canada and was eventually a follower of Jamaica’s Marcus Garvey, the […]
Former Camera columnist Tanya Walker is set to become the first Black woman Toronto bencher in the Law Society’s 219-year history. With roots in Jamaica, Walker, founder of Walker Law Professional Corporation, who was called to the bar in 2006, is expected to become a bencher this June when the current treasurer’s term ends. The […]
Toronto Police Board will soon make public the results of a Toronto police review of the fatal shooting of Andrew Loku and develop a process to release similar internal reports in the future, the board said in a media release. It is expected the new process will be implemented by June 17. But this only […]
A spokesman for the Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) said, “In reviewing the testimony from the Jermaine Carby inquest a number of troubling revelations have come up.” BADC Director Kingsley P. Gilliam said the committee is demanding that the Attorney General of Ontario bring charges against Const. Justin Chittenden, one of the officers involved. Gilliam […]
