By David Jessop Recently, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Visa and many more premium providers of global web services, temporarily went offline. This was because they had indirectly suffered the effects of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Dyn, a largely unknown intermediary that enables web users to access the addresses of major […]
Several Black youth, mental health researchers, frontline workers and MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes will share their stories about mental health, recovery and support at the Black Health Alliance’s Mental Health and Youth forum on Saturday. Venue for the forum is the North York Civic Centre Council Chamber (5100 Yonge Street). The event runs from 9 a.m. […]
Mary Lihua Zhang Immigration consultant Only those undocumented immigrants who have no criminal records and who have been working and paying taxes for 10 years and more in Canada, should be granted permanent residence. This is aligned with the ultimate objective with respect to our immigration law which is to permit Canada to pursue the […]
Members of the Caribana Arts Group (CAG) will meet on Saturday at Metro Hall in Toronto to discuss several outstanding issues affecting the future of the organization and its role in the 50th anniversary celebration of the Toronto carnival. One of the hot button items for discussion is the proposal made recently by the Festival […]
By W. Andy Knight Caribbean Canadians are watching the US presidential election campaign in the same way a bystander might gravitate to a gruesome car crash. Many of us have relatives in America and as a result we have a lot at stake in the outcome of this election. In any event, as Canadians we […]
EXCLUSIVE By Gerald V. Paul Mystery surrounds an injured Trinidad farm worker who gave The Caribbean Camera an exclusive interview on Tuesday, and then seemed to have vanished into thin air. Soon after Kevon Smith spoke with this reporter at the Eaton Centre in Toronto, he could not be reached. He gave this reporter no […]
By Gerald V. Paul The “Harvesting Freedom”caravan, organized by activists from Justicia for migrant workers, which left Leamington on September 4, arrived in Ottawa on the weekend with its petition calling on the federal government to grant migrant farm workers permanent resident status. The activists were planning to present the petition to Prime Minister Justin […]
Toronto City Councillor Michael Thompson says he is disappointed that no concrete action has yet been taken on his proposal for the establishment of a registry to document the arrival of children entering Canada as immigrants. In an interview on the weekend, the Jamaica-born councillor told The Caribbean Camera that he was still awaiting word […]
As Barbados marks the 50th anniversary of its independence this year, its heroes are being honoured. Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart spoke of several of them on Saturday in his keynote address at the ninth annual Errol Barrow Memorial dinner at the Markham Convention Centre in Toronto. He noted that 2016 is an important year […]
By Gerald V. Paul Canadian Olympic sprinter Andre De Grasse was honoured on Sunday by the City of Markham with a grand Homecoming celebration at which an announcement was made by Mayor Frank Scarpitti that a street will be named after him. Wearing his three Rio Olympic medals , De Grasse, a resident of Markham, […]
