Canadian Heritage Minister Melanie Joly told a gathering at the TAIBU community health centre in Toronto on Thursday that Canada’s strength is founded on ” our respect for rights and freedoms, on our welcoming open society and our diverse multicultural character.” And she said there is no better time to reflect and build on this […]
Ontario’s education minister Mitzie Hunter has ordered an “urgent review” of the York Region District School Board which she said failed to adequately address governance and equity issues. In a statement issued last Thursday, the minister said she has appointed two people to conduct the review: Patrick Case, a law professor and former trustee with […]
By Judy Pham Three candidates from Toronto’s Caribbean community are among 29 now in the final phase of campaigning for city councillor in the byelection in Scarborough- Rouge River. Advance polls open this weekend. The three from the Caribbean community are Jamaica-born Bev Dixon, a retired social worker, Kevin Clarke, a community activist and interim […]
There are two reasons that will explain the delay in the delivery of the top quality, modernized policing being proposed for the benefit of the people of Toronto. The first reason is implicit in the comprehensive nature of the Report and Plan of Action released and laid before the Board of the Toronto Public Service […]
By Meegan Scott February-Black History Month- is that time when we focus on the successes, struggles, and oppressions faced by Blacks and other people of colour. It is also a time when we revisit the atrocities committed against our forefathers, freedom fighters, and heroes. Yet we fail to take time out for introspection, to look […]
Toronto Mayor John Tory has called for action to deal with disproportionately higher rates of incarceration, unemployment and child protection cases in the Black community. He issued the call at the weekend at the launch of ” community conversations,” an initiative aimed at fighting anti-black racism. The launch took place at Ujima House, Canada’s first […]
How should we react to the constant contradictions and the unpredictability of US President Donald Trump? The governments of Canada and of the countries of the Caribbean have refrained from trying to fight fire with fire in this unstable era of the Trump presidency. Isn’t it ironical that our governments’ most effective strategy vis-à-vis the […]
Our inheritance from Martin Luther King Jr. includes a number of fundamental principles that are still applied by civil rights campaigners the world over. Bearing in mind that the United States celebrated Martin Luther King Day on Monday, it is timely and appropriate to re-affirm some of the main aspects of King’s social and political […]
CASTRIES, St Lucia — The opposition St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) has announced it will review every economic citizenship granted by the ruling United Workers Party (UWP) under new citizenship by investment programme (CIP) rules recently promulgated by Prime Minister Allen Chastanet. The SLP expressed its “deepest concern” with the actions of the Chastanet administration, […]
Trinidad-born economist Winston Chandarbhan Dookeran last week received the Prevasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA) from Indian President Pranab Mukherjee for outstanding public service in the practice of development and diplomacy. Dookeran who served in the former Trinidad and Tobago government of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar as foreign minister and finance minister and is a […]
