It is a source of great satisfaction for our newspaper every year to see more and more opportunities for all to participate in and to benefit from Black History Month. February is the month that enjoys the signal honour of being so designated, thanks to the pioneering efforts of the Honourable Jean Augustine and to […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon It was announced last year that Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) will resume intake of new applications to sponsor parents and grandparents starting Jan. 2 at 8 a.m. It was required that applications be individually packaged and sent to the Case Processing Centre, Mississauga (CPC- M). The release also stated: “CPC-M accepts […]
By Glen Ford Like all historical dramatic films, Selma is a political work, reflecting the political views of the producers. Oprah Winfrey is one of those producers, in addition to playing one of the characters in this version of the Selma story. Her handwriting – that is, her conservative Black political worldview – is all […]
By Michael Lashley Conspiracy theorists are quite a talented lot. Their theories are so versatile that they can be fact, fiction or entertainment. Who knows? Sometimes they may even succeed in being a combination of all three. Please bear with me as I begin my journey of speculation. I choose to start that journey with […]
By Norman ‘Otis’ Richmond Hollywood has never been kind to Africans in the United States or anywhere else on this small planet we call earth. Donald Bogle captured it beautifully in his 1973 work, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. Fast forward 42 years and very little […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon Immigration law stipulates that all foreign nationals who hold a permanent resident visa and are seeking to become a permanent resident must at the time of their examination inform the officer if: He / she has become a spouse or common-law partner or ceased to be a spouse, common-law partner or conjugal […]
Our time for self-help is now, right here in front of us. We are seeing concrete examples of ways in which we can free ourselves, our federal politicians and our country from going around in circles, painfully unproductive circles. The dizzying effects of that not so merry go-round are equally split between apathy and despair. […]
By Mehdi Hasan Dear liberal pundit: You and I didn’t like George W Bush. Remember his puerile declaration after 9/11 that “either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”? Yet now, in the wake of another horrific terrorist attack, you appear to have updated Dubya’s slogan: either you are with free speech […]
By Michael Lashley First, the good news. There is a general perception that Canada ranks reasonably well in the international ratings of caring, charitable and giving countries. Our not-for-profit sector occupies a significant segment of our economy, when compared with that of other countries. I am personally pleased with the large number of individual initiatives, […]
Nothing justifies the large-scale violence and killings inflicted on the staff of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and on the persons present at the hostage-takings that followed the initial attack of Wednesday Jan. 7, 2015!! That being said, there are much broader issues surrounding our original question: Why are Paris, France and much of […]
