By Stephen Weir Mascots can go as bare as they dare at the world’s largest indoor lake, but all other performers have to wear bathing suits. The Toronto International Boat Show is on until Sunday afternoon down at Exhibition Place. Hundreds of new boats are on display, and of course, there is Lake Wow. The […]
By Lincoln DePradine Ontario, beginning next year, is introducing curriculum changes for kindergarten students to make the province and Canada a “global leader’’ by “emphasizing literacy and math skills in the classroom’’, education minister Stephen Lecce has said. “We, as Canadians, have to do better. We need to be the gold standard. And, it is […]
A statue of Lincoln MacCauley Alexander, Canada’s first Black Member of Parliament and the first Black person to hold a viceregal position in Canada, was unveiled at Queen’s Park last Sunday. The son of Caribbean immigrants, Alexander who was born in Toronto, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War. He […]
Nerene Virgin was born in 1946 in Hamilton, Ontario, and traces her roots to escaped Maryland slave Thomas John (Howard) Holland. Virgin was a Canadian journalist, an actor, educator, author and television host, best known for her role on the children’s television series Today’s Special. She died last Thursday at the age of 77. In […]
Energy Minister Vince Henderson says the Government of Dominica is ready to begin construction on a 10-kilowatt geothermal power plant to supplement the supply of electricity from the Dominica Electricity Company (DOMLEC). The Dominica government is said to have invested nearly US$50 million, so far, in geothermal research and Henderson said, on a recent radio […]
Toronto teenager Sheriauna Haase was born with a congenital limb reduction and faced the usual childhood taunts reserved for kids with such handicaps; bullying being prime among them. It got worse in public school. Fortunately, Haase found strength in the unwavering support of her family, especially her mother. “(My family) would just always lift me […]
At the closed of 2023, the Federal Government announced that a temporary policy that removed the 20-hour limit on international students’ work hours will come to an end. The 20 hours cap was removed in November 2022 as a way to help address a Canada-wide labour shortage, allowing students to work more than 20 hours […]
By Lincoln DePradine An academic scholarship has been established in the name of an African-Canadian, who spent much of his adult life as an educator and in promoting African history and achievements. Professional accountant Eric Rudolph Wickham, who died last November, was a Centennial College business instructor, who also developed a groundbreaking general education college […]
By Stephen Weir Does Brandon Randolph know something we don’t? In an interview this week with the Caribbean Camera, prior to his upcoming performance with the famed Mark Morris Dance Group this Friday night at the downtown Meridian Theatre, he expressed a slight concern about our weather! Brandon Randolph has a place on St. Croix […]
By Stephen Weir In a significant development for the Canadian radio landscape, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has announced a pending application by Neeti P. Ray’s CINA Radio Group to acquire three AM stations from Bell Media. The stations in question are CHAM and CKOC in Hamilton and CKWW in Windsor, for the […]
