WHITBY, Ont. – Chief David Speed of the Whitby Fire and Emergency Services vividly recalls that when he was at a requiting session about four year ago, almost all the applicants in the room were white men. ” And that really bothered me and I vowed that we really needed to do something about diversity,” […]
Pickering, ON – January 3rd, 2021 – On this day our beloved Lydia Parris left this physical world and made her ascent back to the Heavenly Father. Devoted wife to Brian and mother of three: André (Kayleigh), Matthew (Una) and Danielle (Kevin); grandmother of Aria and Rémy, and daughter of the late Marie Harbans. She […]
Ontario’s Finance Minister Rod Phillips resigned last Thursday after public outrage over a Caribbean vacation he took last month in violation of his own government’s coronavirus travel warnings. Phillips admitted last week that he travelled to the French island of St Barts on December 13 last, after the legislative session ended. Federal and provincial leaders […]
By: Bianca Jacob-Stephenson Five years ago, veteran entertainer Elsworth James first began losing things, and then getting lost during walks around his Toronto neighborhood. Two years later, he faced a devastating diagnosis: dementia, a neurodegenerative condition that affects 50 million people worldwide. Now in the end-stage of the disease, James endures the ultimate loss, memories […]
Can You Hear Me Now? Former MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes tells the story of finding her voice ‘in the unlikeliest of places’ By Lincoln DePradine The story of Celina Caesar-Chavannes is both typical and unique. Born into a humble family in the Caribbean, she migrated to Canada and worked her way to measurable success. That’s […]
A Toronto police officer convicted in the brutal assault of a young man was sentenced to nine months in jail last Thursday in a ruling the victim’s lawyer hailed as historic for its consideration of systemic violence toward the Black community. Ontario Superior Court Justice Joseph Di Luca said that although Const. Michael Theriault was […]
Come Monday, we will observe Thanksgiving , mindful of the fact that we are still in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanksgiving 2020 will not be the same as in previous years as we make the necessary adjustment to the ” new normal.” Yet we have a lot to be thankful for. […]
Durham Region Health Department is urging anyone who attended a wedding on Sept. 19 last at the Caribbean Cultural Centre in Oshawa, to contact the Health Department as soon as possible The Health Department has been notified of eight cases of COVID-19 associated with this event and is having difficulty obtaining a full list of […]
Trinidadian Canadians with long memories will no doubt remember Sweet N’ Nice, a traditional San Fernando and southern Trinidad ice cream. The sweet news is that many major supermarket chains in Ontario are stocking this Caribbean- style ice cream – or about to do so. Some 80 years ago, Charles Neale was a fixture on […]
By Celina Caesar-Chavannes Over the past several days, in the midst of the protests related to the killing of George Floyd and death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto, many people have asked me this question: what does the government do now? What are the solutions to racism in Canada, Celina? As much as it frustrates […]
