Toronto’s Africentric Alternative School has hit a rough patch with enrolment but experts and officials caution that the concept is “an incubator of ideas” and participation will “ebb and flow”. While some parents are dissatisfied, students generally praise the school for its teaching which they say gives them a sense of African-Canadian identity. Enrolment stands […]
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 […]
According to a recent Federal Court ruling, Mr. Warssama, a Somalian now age 51, came to Canada in 1989 and his refugee claim was denied. However, he later got a ministerial permit which allowed him to apply to remain in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. Due to his failure to keep his address current […]
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 […]
The community is invited to a benefit dinner to launch Scarborough Hospital Foundation’s Caribbean Philanthropic Council at JC’s Banquet Hall, 1686 Ellesmere Rd, Scarborough, on Dec. 3 at 6:30 p.m. The council’s mission is to provide preventative health care measures unique to the Caribbean community. The council will carry out this mission through fundraising events […]
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 […]
