One hundred and ten year-old Jamaica-born Dora Skeen received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday Ms Skeen, the oldest known resident of Scarborough, Ont., received the vaccination at her home as a result of the coordinated efforts of MPP Mitzie Hunter of Scarborough- Guildwood (left) and the Scarborough Health Network. Dora Skeen, […]
Toronto Police are investigating a report of hate mail which was sent to Newtonbrook Secondary School in North York over its new course addressing anti-Black racism. On Feb. 17, last, the school received an envelope with no return address. Inside, was a copy of a newspaper article about the school’s new course on deconstructing anti-Black […]
After a seven-week strike, workers at Tropicana Community Services (TCS) in Toronto are back on the job. The workers have ratified their first collective agreement and ended their strike just two days before Christmas. Raymund Guiste Executive Director of TCS, said that the unionized team members ratified a three-year collective agreement and that the contract […]
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. […]
OTTAWA — Bill Blair, the federal public safety minister, says fewer than 10 asylum seekers have been turned back to the U.S. since the historic shutdown of the border. Blair provided the figure to the House of Commons on Monday, noting it has been almost a month since the Canada-U.S. border closed to all but […]
Immigration Matters Sukhram Ramkissoon Couple who entered third marriage succeeds at immigration appeal hearing I have been asked by a reader, a Canadian citizen who was previously married and divorced, whether he can sponsor his spouse who herself was previously married and divorced. Like him, she has entered into her third marriage. Well, of course, […]
Covenant Funeral Homes celebrates 4th anniversary in Black History Month Canada’s first Black-owned funeral home Covenant Funeral Homes Inc. (CFH) is Canada’s first Black-owned funeral home, and is celebrating its 4th year of operations. Founder of CFH, Luann Jones says she began the business following a car accident over 20 years ago, “That brush with […]
By Stephen Weir Pianist Sean Sutherland thinks the time is right to show Canadians that not only are there Black classical musicians in this country who perform at the highest level of the art-form, but that there are Black classical composers creating enthralling music that deserve to be heard. Sutherland has put it all together […]
Since the system was implemented, the few emergency alerts that have screamed from our cellphones, usually in the still of the night, have been mostly about missing children. The news often evokes feelings of sadness and the hope that the child is found unharmed. So far it’s always had a happy ending. But last Sunday […]
Well-known Jamaica-born barber Ronald Ashford Wisdom, popularly known as Jimmy, died on Thursday of a suspected heart attack. He was 72. Wisdom collapsed at his home in North York and was rushed to Sunnybrook Hospital where he was pronounced dead, his daughter, Ninfa, told the Caribbean Camera. She said her father who was born in Montego Bay, […]
