Caneisha Edwards playing The Flamingo Queen in Dexter Seusahai’s Paradise at the Toronto Caribbean Junior Carnival in Scarborough on Saturday. More than a dozen bands took part in the parade. Junior Carnival 2016 winners Carnival Nationz was adjudged Band of the Year at the Toronto Caribbean Carnival’s 2016 Junior Carnival Parade. Band theme: The Nest. […]
Acclaimed Barbados-born author Austin Tom Clarke who died on June 26 last, was remembered at his funeral last Friday as a man whose life ” defies summation.” Delivering the eulogy at the Cathedral church of St. James in downtown Toronto, Rinaldo Walcott, an associate professor of sociology and equity studies at the University of Toronto, […]
Members of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Toronto staged a sit-in at the Pride Toronto parade on Sunday, bringing it to a halt for about half an hour. Alexandra Williams, a co-founder of BLM Toronto, said that they held the sit-in because they wanted to hold Pride Toronto accountable for “anti-blackness.” “We are not taking any space […]
Last weekend two calypso tents opened in Toronto, heralding the beginning of the city’s carnival season. The Professionals, back at the Steel Workers Hall, saw the return of Montreal’s and St. Lucia’s Dennis James, four-time calypso monarch. James was among a strong contingent of singers returning for another exciting season. On Sunday, Kaiso Forum pitched […]
Toronto Raptors assistant coach, consultant and team ambassador Jamaal Magloire recently held his third annual all-inclusive “RSVP: Garden Galavant”. Magloire who also serves as bandleader for Carnival mas band Toronto Revellers is a tireless supporter of Caribbean culture and celebrated his birthday in fine style while raising funds for the non-profit organization, The Children’s Breakfast […]
By Gerald V. Paul Toronto Black advocate Osborne Barnwell has lashed out at managers in the public service who are perpetuating anti-black racism, ” apparently knowing that they can do so with impunity.” Barnwell was speaking at Toronto City Hall yesterday at the official launch of the campaign by justice4blacks@work, a recently- formed coalition of […]
“We are a community not by choice.” That sentiment was heard as the community put their heads together in the fight against gun violence recently at Scarborough Civic Centre. UMOVE (Mothers Opposing Violence Everywhere) and Zero Gun Violence Movement (ZGVM) held a Parents Conference with leading members of the community including former deputy chief […]
By Gerald V. Paul QUEEN’S Park – Newly minted Education Minister Mitzie Hunter is “thrilled” to be entrusted with the province’s $22- billion education system, she said in an interview with The Camera yesterday. Jamaica-born Hunter – Ontario’s first Black minister of education – pledged to continue to build on the existing foundation of goals: […]
June 11 will be a night of sheer Pan Fantasy. The steelband will celebrate 30 glorious years at Tropicana Community Banquet Hall that night with spectacular music and good times. Wendy Jones, leader of Pan Fantasy, the reigning Pan Alive Steel pan Champions, told The Camera yesterday, “We are grateful for the ability and opportunities […]
Adaoma Patterson was elected president of the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) last Sunday. Patterson, whose late father Horace Patterson came to Canada to pursue studies at the University of Manitoba in the 1960s was born in Winnipeg and, with the exception of six years which her family spent in Jamaica, was raised in that city. […]
