By Dr. Virginia Nsitem The annual Toronto Caribbean Carnival is just around the corner, so it is important to pay attention to some tips on how to keep your joints and muscles pain-free, so that you can participate in as many Carnival activities as possible. Waving, Jumping, Walking, and Dancing: Waving a towel, […]
By Kirk Moss Imagine you’re a kid growing up on the south-west side of rural Jamaica in the 1980’s. Reggae is blaring from all corners of the island. The giants of this cultural expression, with its roots lengthier than the contours of outer-space, echoed grandiose phrases and fantastical melodies over groovy boobastic-instruments. When suddenly, out […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon It is a well-established fact that under Canada’s immigration law, permanent residents who commit crimes in Canada can be returned to their countries of nationality because of their criminality. Let us examine a very lengthy, stressful, agonising, painstaking and compassionate immigration appeal hearing process. Andrew (not his real name) is a […]
By Roger Gibbs It will be 56 years since the Toronto Caribbean Carnival (TCC) or Caribana has been celebrated. After a 2-year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic, the festival roared back in 2022. With a new management team installed just over a year earlier, the Festival Management Committee (FMC) staged an incident-free Grand […]
By Ian Jones The Ontario Steelpan Association (OSA) was formally launched on June 26, 2003 at the Rotunda of the Scarborough Civic Centre in the presence of several representatives of the Toronto Steelpan Community – the Consul General for Trinidad & Tobago, Vernetta Calvin-Smith; Councillor Joe Mihevc (The Mayor’s Office); Keith Byer, Vice President, Pan […]
Editorial For weeks, newcomers, refugees, mostly form Africa, had camped outside a Toronto homeless referral centre looking for shelter and other amenities for survival. Last Tuesday, after weeks of argument between City of Toronto officials and their federal government counterparts over who pays for this, Ottawa finally caved and came up with $97 million in […]
The annual Albion-Islington Fusion of Taste will be back in Toronto’s west end on Saturday. And Ronnie Ramsawack, chairman of the district’s Business Improvement Association, has announced that Roti Roti, his popular eating establishment, will once again sponsor “ the world’s largest roti competition” as well as well as the usual “doubles eating competition” at […]
By Wolf Thyma Born in Haiti, I immigrated to Canada at the age of seven. Proud of my modest origins, I always tell anyone who will listen that my parents led me to study law and medicine while they worked for minimum wage in factories in Montréal-Nord. But I didn’t meet a Black doctor until […]
On inauguration day, Olivia Chow, the newly elected mayor of Toronto, delivered a powerful and symbolic message by opting for a unique mode of transportation. Instead of the traditional motorcade, she chose to ride her bike alongside a group of friends and well-wishers, embarking on a journey down Bay Street to City Hall. This act […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon James (not his real name) is a citizen of Jamaica who entered Canada in March 2018, at the Lester Pearson International Airport as a Farm Worker with a work permit which would expire in December 2018. Before his work permit expired, he retained a representative to apply for an extension of his […]
