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 […]
By Jasminee Sahoye A telecommunications company in the Caribbean is injecting some $1M over a five-year period into an incubator programme to help filmmakers from the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora in North America further develop their skills. Canadian-born, John Reid, CEO of Flow, a broadcasting company, whose parent company is Cable and Wireless Communications, […]
By W. Andy Knight The Caribbean Community ( CARICOM) held its 37th regular Heads of Government meeting in Guyana from July 4-6, 2016. The meeting was chaired by the Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit. It is fitting that this meeting was held in Guyana which is celebrating its 50th year of independence from […]
Acclaimed Barbados-born author Austin Tom Clarke who died on June 26 last, was remembered at his funeral last Friday as a man whose life ” defies summation.” Delivering the eulogy at the Cathedral church of St. James in downtown Toronto, Rinaldo Walcott, an associate professor of sociology and equity studies at the University of Toronto, […]
Violence in vulnerable neighborhoods in Toronto and the problems which his own grand-daughter faced in finding work moved retired physics professor Allan Carswell to provide funding through a charitable foundation that will create more jobs this summer for youth at risk. The funding will come from the Carswell Family Foundation which Professor Carswell established several […]
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 […]
On 23 June 2016, the British people voted in favour of leaving the European Union (EU). The referendum vote was a close one – 52 per cent to 48 per cent. A recent poll in the United Kingdom has indicated that there has been some buyer’s remorse. About seven per cent of those who voted […]
In a spectacular blaze of colour, under a blazing sun, Toronto Caribbean carnival 2016 was launched yesterday at Nathan Phillips Square. Officially opening the festival was Toronto Mayor John Tory. Onstage were more than 100 models in costume from no fewer than 12 mas’ bands as the rhythmic sounds of soca, the steelband and tassa […]
August 17, 1946- July 2, 2016 SAN FERNANDO, Trinidad – Former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning died at hospital here on Saturday. He was 69. He died of acute myeloid leukemia, his family said in a statement on his official Facebook page. Manning who was the longest serving Member of Parliament […]
