Canada’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced last Monday a temporary cap on new student visas. mill Miller said the number of new visas handed out this year will be capped at 364,000, a 35 per cent decrease from the nearly 560,000 issued last year. The number for 2025 will be set after an assessment of […]
The Senate will launch a study next week probing complaints of racism at the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC). Sen. Thomas Bernard, deputy chair of the Red Chamber’s human rights committee, said that ever since it was first reported complaints of workplace discrimination made by Black and racialized employees of the CHRC, she’s been hearing […]
By Rebecca Kerr There is an adage “it takes a Village to raise a child”. That was evident on a cold brisk wintry morning in February when approximately 150 students from Driftwood Public School, Warden Woods Public School and John McCrae Public School boarded a Via Rail Train bound for Ottawa, the Nation’s capital as […]
The Unknown Comedy Club has announced The Underground Comedy Railroad, a five city stand-up comedy tour February 4-20, 2023 visiting Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario. These showcases will celebrate the 11th Anniversary of The Underground Comedy Railroad, an annual tour that has traveled across Canada for Black History Month since 2012. Beginning February 4 in […]
Minister Ahmed Hussen makes the announcement and also declares Black History Month theme: “Ours to Tell.” Today, people in towns and communities across Canada will take a moment to recognize the life and legacy of the Honourable Lincoln Alexander. A trailblazer in his own right, the Honourable Lincoln MacCauley Alexander was born in Toronto. Years […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday the appointment of Michael H. Tulloch, a judge of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, as the new Chief Justice of Ontario and President of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. He replaces George R. Strathy who retired last August. Trudeau described Tulloch as “a highly respected member […]
The City of Ottawa says it’s covered the Notre Dame D’Afrique statue in what appears to be tarp until it’s able to start restoring the statue’s face and hands, which were painted white by someone in an act of vandalism. The Notre Dame D’Afrique (Our Lady of Africa) statue stands in front of the Richelieu-Vanier Centre in Richelieu-Vanier Park along Pères-Blancs […]
Ottawa-Gatineau’s Black and Arab populations third behind Toronto and Montreal. Ottawa is also the sixth-fastest growing municipality in the country. Brampton is the fastest growing municipality in Canada. Ottawa-Gatineau still has the third largest Black and Arab populations in the country, according to 2021 census data released by Statistics Canada last Wednesday. There are […]
Justice Minister David Lametti urged senators to pass the Liberal government’s proposed legislation on mandatory minimum penalties, saying the bill would target the overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous people in the criminal justice system. Twenty mandatory minimum penalties would be removed from the Criminal Code if the legislation passes, Lametti said during a hearing of […]
Born in Jamaica, she immigrated to Canada at age five and grew up in Toronto Leslyn Lewis announced on Tuesday, March 8th, that she will be entering the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race, becoming the second candidate to do so after Pierre Poilievre. “I’m running to lead our party and our country based on […]
