QUEBEC — The Quebec national assembly has passed a controversial religious neutrality bill that obliges citizens to uncover their faces while giving and receiving state services. Members of the national assembly voted 66-51 in favour of Bill 62 yesterday. Tabled by Justice Minister Stephanie Vallee in 2015, it is the governing Liberals’ response to the […]
OTTAWA – Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Ahmed Hussen, has announced changes to the Citizenship Act which came into effect yesterday (October 11). Hussen who made the announcement last week, said amendments to the Act are the fulfillment of a central Liberal election platform plank that promised to rid the Act of ” […]
Toronto Police are appealing to the public for assistance with their investigation into the murder last Friday of John Trevor Paul, 32, a St. Lucia-born man who was shot in the Sheridan Mall in Toronto. Paul who lived in Toronto, was the second victim of a fatal shooting in the mall within a month. Emergency […]
A large group of supporters of the African Canadian Legal Clinic (ACLC) held a rally in Toronto on Saturday to protest the defunding of the Clinic by Legal Aid Ontario. The rally started at the front of the 52 Division Police station and made its way east to the office of Legal Aid Ontario. From […]
By Louis March Seven shootings in six days, with two fatalities. That was the tally in Toronto last week, and not one word of concern heard from political leaders at all three levels of government. Over the past three years, we have seen an almost 100 per cent increase in gun homicides and incidents in […]
Kenneth Jeffers, the lone Black member of the Toronto Police Services Board, is calling for a “stronger position” in reviewing the case of Dafonte Miller, a 19-year old Black man from Whitby who was allegedly beaten with a steel pipe which left him blinded in the left eye and with a broken nose, jaw and […]
The mothers are members of the Zero Gun Violence Movement which has held several demonstrations and led a delegation to Ottawa calling on the federal government for tougher gun laws. More than a hundred people took part in the march in Toronto on August 19 last which began at City Hall and ended at Queen’s […]
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has announced that it will withdraw funding of the African Canadian Legal Clinic (ACLC) effective September 30. Every dollar of funding currently provided to ACLC will be redirected to a new organization to provide dedicated services to the Black community, said a news release from the LAO dated August 16 last. […]
So when last did you hear about “financial mismanagement”? Remember Caribana? Was the festival not removed from the cash-starved community-based organization which had been running it, because of “financial mismanagement” and placed in the hands of a small clique who found favour with the powers that be? Is it not the same clique which has […]
By Lincoln DePradine The lawyer for a Barbadian-born refugee claimant, who spent months in jail despite not having any criminal charges or convictions, won’t say if his client’s treatment by Canadian immigration officials had anything to do with his ethnicity. “I don’t have any evidence and I can’t say for sure,’’ Subodh Bharati told The […]
