Editorial On Monday, Toronto Mayor John Tory proclaimed March 1-5 as Black Mental Health Week. Readers will no doubt recall that last year, the City of Toronto launched the first Black Mental Health Day in partnership with TAIBU Community Health Services. But this year, as a news release from the City of Toronto points out, […]
A new US initiative for the Caribbean is needed By David Jessop When the economies of the Caribbean and Central America finally exit the pandemic, most will be in crisis. As a recent IMF review of The Bahamas put it, recovery to pre-pandemic levels ‘will likely take years’ and the ‘downside risks loom large’. The […]
FOCUS ON HEALTH I Injured my back…Do I need surgery? By Virginia Nystem One of my patients recently visited my office after suffering a slip and fall accident on her driveway. She slipped on ice, fell on her back and immediately experienced low back pain, right leg pain and numbness. She visited the emergency department […]
Immigration Matters By: Sukhramn Ramkissoon Do not lie on your immigration and citizenship application forms I recently had a telephone conversation with a reader of my column who said that he was speaking on behalf of a friend who is now a Canadian citizen. He told me that his friend had ” some criminal charges […]
Editorial An ‘action plan’ to address gun violence Louis March, the founder of the Zero Gun Violence Movement (ZGVM) of Toronto, must be tired hearing himself say the same thing over and over, year after year. But March is a man with a message – an important message that bears repeating. And he is determined […]
COMMENTARY Biden is in no position to lecture anyone about democracy By Carlton Joseph Delivering his first major foreign policy statement at the recent G7 summit, President Joseph Biden named China as the most serious competitor of the United States. He insisted that the United States will confront China’s economic abuses, counter its aggressive, coercive […]
Black history month and beyond our Black lives (and votes!) matter By Jill Andrew As February wraps up for another year, Black History Month events will begin to wind down. However, for those of us who live proudly in our Black skin day in and day out, we remain the embodiment of Black history, Black […]
Will the new WTO Director-General be able to revive multilateralism ? By David Jessop A few days ago, the Nigerian-American economist, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was appointed to lead the 164-nation Geneva-based World Trade Organisation (WTO). As the first woman and the first African to hold the post of Director-General, she now has the daunting task […]
EDITORIAL Stay healthy and safe and take the vaccine So the mighty COVID-19 has kept the pre-lenten carnival revellers off the streets of Trinidad this year. The spectacular Trinidad carnival after which the Toronto mas’ extravaganza is modelled, would have been held this week but alas the unrelenting coronavirus did not allow it. And in […]
By Carlton Joseph The second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump ended last week with an acquittal. The 57–43 margin wasn’t enough to convict him under the Constitution. However, 57 senators voted to convict, including seven Republicans, making it the most bipartisan impeachment trial in the history of the United States. Prior to the trial, […]
