Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel maintains that the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald is a one-off situation. This is an outright lie. Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 times. Police killing African men and women are as American as apple pie and the FBI. It is as Chicago as Michael Jordon and Scottie […]
Three Black singers, two of Caribbean heritage and the other a Scarborough native of Ethiopian ancestry, were among this year’s American Music Awards winners last Sunday at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles. Barbados native Robyn Rihanna Fenty received the award for Favourite Female Artist – Soul / R&B. She tweeted “Congrats & thank you […]
The Caribbean community joined members of other nations at Yonge-Dundas Square last Saturday to welcome Canada’s leadership on the Syrian refugee crisis with a collective “We Welcome Refugees!” One event organizer, Fahad Al, concurred with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that “We have a responsibility to significantly expand our refugee targets and give more victims of […]
As Trinidad and Tobago’s Ken Jeffers took his seat on the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB), many such boards are seeking explicit power to enforce new carding rules – clarity as to what the boards can do. Jeffers, appointed to the board by the provincial government for a two-year term, told The Camera he appreciates […]
With the goal of creating a “world-class sport system”, the province is launching Game ON Sports Plan to “support our athletes from the playground to the podium,” Michael Coteau announced. The minister of tourism, culture and sport and formerly minister responsible for the Pan Am and Parapan Am Games in Toronto, told The Camera that […]
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world” – P. Pullman Natasha Charles, Canadian-born and Trinidad-raised winner of the 2015 Alice Kane Storytelling Award, wants the community’s help with her project Living Archive, a series of oral storytelling interviews or conversations in the Trinidad and Tobago community. “The […]
Sid Frankel, associate professor of social work, University of Manitoba, and a former director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada, asks Camera readers to “please join us this holiday season by donating today in support of Greater Futures Start Here. “By doing so you can provide the ultimate gift to a child, empower […]
At Joan Alexander & Friends’ 15th annual Soca Parang Lime last Sunday, T&T musical luminaries Joslynne Sealey and Etienne Charles exchange their respective CDs. Charles (Creole Christmas) made a surprise appearance to accompany show headliner Lord Relator. Sealey was in town to promote her CD Famous Arias. Alicia Sealey photo.
Dearly Beloved Mayor John Tory: You may recall I told you “I respect you,” after you ran and lost that election. You replied you respected me, too. One Love inna Toronto yard. And you may recall my coverage of your subsequent campaign (aside: one of my stories was so full of ‘kissy-kissy’ that the then […]
Right Reverend Claude Berkley, bishop of Trinidad and Tobago, spoke at the Church of the Nativity, Malvern, last Wednesday and shared his thoughts on the work of the church in that country’s diocese. Berkley, who was guest speaker for the 2015 Arthur Brown and Basil Tonks Dinner at the Church of the Ascension, was also […]
