Photo by: ©️Mark Thompson @dopecontentagency On Monday, May 23rd, the Black Business & Professional Association (BBPA), in collaboration with the York-Eglinton BIA, hosted a Community Clean-up in the Little Jamaica Community. This community has seen many challenging in the last two years, so the community chose this time to come together to show pride in their […]
The Black Action Defense Committee: “This inquest is not about laying blame. It is about ensuring that no family again goes through what the Boekwa family has gone through.” The commencement of this coroner’s inquest marks just over seven years since Mr. Marc Ekamba was killed by Peel Regional Police. On March 20, 2015, police […]
By Lincoln DePradine One of the leading Black business owners in the United States is advocating for cooperation between Americans and Canadians in achieving “economic freedom to all minorities’’, and in obtaining greater equity in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. “What I want to be is a bridge to bring people together in […]
Scotiabank and Elevate Talent announced that its fully-funded Customer Care training program is now underway. The program aims to help eliminate employment and opportunity barriers for underrepresented communities across Canada. With a successful fall pilot program that saw several graduates find meaningful employment with Scotiabank, Elevate Talent has added the Customer Care course to its […]
George Brown College in Toronto has become the first Canadian partner of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC), based at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. In making this announcement last Friday at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Centre and George Brown College, Dr. Gervan Fearon, […]
‘When we lose the older generation, we lose the stories of the things that they went through’ When Toronto artist Trevor Twells started the MakeRoom organization in 2019, his goal was to find places for emerging artists — particularly BIPOC ones — to show their art without having to go through the traditional gallery system, […]
The upcoming June Ontario provincial has given the media their first tantalizing tidbit when it was announced that former Toronto police chief Mark Saunders will be an Ontario PC candidate. Saunders will run in the Don Valley West riding, which former Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne has held since 2003. Wynne has already announced that she […]
The Barbados-born international student won a competition sponsored by Ryerson University, St. Mike’s Hospital For Jennifer Schultz, dealing with breast cancer didn’t stop when she got off the operating table. She relives the pain every time she puts on a bra that doesn’t fit properly or realizes she can’t afford the ones that can. “It’s […]
By: Breanna Schnurr The Ryerson school of journalism welcomed two incredible journalists to the tenure-stream faculty. Eternity Martis and Shari Okeke are both award-winning journalists who have focused much of their careers on centering and uplifting Black voices. Although she officially joined the faculty last July, j-school alum Eternity Martis has been an instructor with […]
Caribbean Canadian music with a cause remembered at Friar’s Music Museum By Stephen Weir Standing inside the Friars Museum beside the two curators of the new free exhibition – Rhythm and Resistance – I listen as they tell the history of the Caribbean music scene in downtown Toronto. I am being schooled about what made […]
