Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic LeBlanc, Brad Johns, Nova Scotia Attorney General and Minister of Justice, have appointed 16 members to the Progress Monitoring Committee (PMC). The Progress Monitoring Committee (PMC) was formed by the Governments of Canada and Nova Scotia in response to the final report of the Mass […]
Trinidadian author and historian Michael Anthony died at his home in Port of Spain last Thursday. He was 93. In the mid-1950s Anthony left Trinidad to live in England where he worked at the Reuters News Agency and began his career as a writer. Anthony had more than 30 titles published, including novels, collections of […]
By Stephen Weir The roar from Dundas Square Park on Sunday was so loud that one could hear the noise from a block away. A live soccer game on the big screen? Nope. It was the king. King David, to be specific. Calypso great David Rudder was on the park’s outdoor stage, singing many of […]
Editorial Listen to this editorial now. Canada should stop fooling itself A recent Toronto Star reported that Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly will visit three European countries, Slovenia, North Macedonia and Albania “as part of a push to shore up Canada’s ties with countries in Russia’s backyard.” It goes on to say that the visit […]
Listen to this now. By Anthony Joseph Judging has been a perennial problem in the Toronto Caribbean Carnival. The system that is being used is one that has been around since the early 1900s when Carnival was in its infancy. It is now completely outdated. First of all, there are built-in biases in favour of […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon Canadian immigration law stipulates that if an applicant for permanent residence fails to declare their dependents, which includes a spouse, or child/ren in their application or at the time they are granted permanent residence, they cannot sponsor these dependents in the future. Let us look at a recent case where I […]
The climate change/global warning debate is fraught with argument, contradictions and sometimes outright anger. It’s a story in which you must tread softly, keep your ears to the ground, and try to tease out a position that makes some kind of sense. At least to your satisfaction. But given what is coming to pass before […]
By Margaret Kimberley Black Agenda Report Executive Editor and Senior Columnist The latest Donald Trump indictment is no cause for celebration. The oligarchs still rule, the military industrial complex still gets public money, the criminal justice system he now faces is still constructed to ensnare Black people, and the democracy said to be protected doesn’t […]
By Evelyn Bradley When I first met my friend Charlie Sark, I was on the set of a cooking show called Worth Our Salt. He looked at all of us there that day and said, “The first step to decolonizing our hearts and minds is to decolonize our palates.” He then proceeded to make me […]
Dominica aims to attract diasporans and visitors via a new initiative that focuses on the island’s top land resources. Called the The Best of Both Worlds “Luxe Land Link”- Land Offer Programme, this land link initiative will “strategically leverage the abundant land resources across three crucial areas: commercial, residential, and agricultural,” according to Melissa […]
