KINGSTON, Jamaica – The University of the West Indies (UWI) is to become the world’s first climate smart study university offering degrees and certificates at all levels, the Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles announced last week. Sir Hilary, addressing the UWI Mona Campus Council meeting, said that discussions have already been held with representatives […]
“You are the future now.” So said Kenneth Jeffers, Chair of the Toronto Police Service Board, to a large number of young people at the Service’s Black History Month celebration held last week at the Jamaican Canadian Centre in Toronto. ” We must acknowledge that the time to effect change, work together and make a […]
By Stephen Weir North Is Freedom, a photography exhibition about the legacy of the Underground Railroad, opened on Sunday at the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA) in Brampton. The exhibition tells the story of the descendants of African Americans who escaped slavery by fleeing to Canada in the early 1800s. An estimated […]
For the cynics among Toronto’s mas’ aficionados, the reclaiming of the Caribbean carnival by the Caribana Arts Group (CAG) which has been discussed time and time again, has been dismissed as unrealistic – or just so much “ole talk.” It will never happen, many mas’ makers say. As one longtime carnival bandleader put it, the […]
OTTAWA – Louis March, Founder of the Zero Gun Violence Movement (ZGVM) in Toronto, told the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence on Monday that young people are saying it is easier for them to get a gun than a job. ” The young kids have spoken to us regularly,.. Imagine a […]
By Lincoln DePradine A new event on this year’s Black History Month calendar is a youth-focused gathering in Toronto that chief organizer and host, Claudene Neysmith, says is designed to inspire young people to be “innovators and risk-takers’’. “I also hope that it inspires them to become positive role models in their respective communities,’’ said […]
The Alvin Ailey dance company Taking the audience to the place of deepest grief and holiest joy By Stephen Weir In the world of contemporary dance, what goes around really does comes around, especially for the Alvin Ailey dancers. Last weekend, the venerable American company kicked off their 60 anniversary 21-city tour in Toronto (their […]
HAMILTON,Ont.- Israel Crooks, the founder of an art project, who has mentored at-risk youth by helping them “articulate their experience through painting,” was among more than a dozen “accomplished individuals,” who were recipients of this year’s John C.Howard Awards. The annual Awards recognize African-Canadian achievement and contribution among youth and adults in the city […]
By Lincoln DePradine A Dalhousie University professor says Canada’s political leaders, at all levels of government, ought to offer an apology to African Canadians for slavery and other inhumane acts against Black people. Dr. Afua Cooper, speaking in Toronto last Sunday, noted that while other groups have received apologies for acts of discrimination and racism, […]
By Stephen Weir More than fifty-two million people – many of them Toronto students – have visited the Ontario Science Centre. So it was only fitting that students were invited to attend the Centre’s 50th anniversary party last Friday. While the students were engaged in some “mad-scientist looking experiments,” Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Michael […]
