Ontario’s Education Equity Action Plan, a new three-year strategy which aims to reduce systemic barriers and ensure that all students in Ontario can reach their full potential, was released on Thursday by Education Minister Mitzie Hunter. The minister described the plan as ” a powerful blueprint that will strengthen our publicly funded education system.” The plan […]
More than 4,500 students and their families showed up at the Durham District School Board’s Education Centre in Whitby last Thursday for the Board’s first annual “Welcome Back to Learning ” BBQ. Held just a few days before the students were due to return to classes for the new term, the event created a great […]
By Carlton Joseph On Monday, mainstream media applauded the president for his hostage news conference at which he read from a teleprompter. The media claimed he was “presidential” and ranted and raved at how well he delivered his speech. I was flabbergasted. Why are these supposedly intelligent broadcasters so gullible? This is third-rate acting at […]
By Lincoln DePradine It’s rare to find young people anywhere in Canada and the Caribbean who want to pursue a life in politics. Jamaican student Daren Miller, who has just ended a visit to Canada, is an exception. “I am really going to be going into politics,’’ said Miller, a Jamaican Youth Ambassador, and also […]
Okay readers. Quick now. What do you get when you put 65 horses and 124 performers on a 17,500- square- foot stage with a 58,000-square-foot big top, 70 tons of rigging and 40,000 gallons of water? What you get is an extraordinary performance of Odeysseo by Cavalia Last Friday I had the pleasure of witnessing this performance in Mississauga next to […]
There can be no doubt that respect for the rules is the most important factor in the prevention of drowning during school outings. This is the critical issue underlying all the questions being raised after the recent drowning of student Jeremiah “Jerry” Perry during a school outing to Algonquin Park. The pain of all the […]
A Trinidad-born woman and her husband were found dead last Thursday in New Mexico. The bodies of Ursula Tammy Kokotkiewicz, 32, who lived in Brampton and had moved to the United States, and husband, Jacob, 31, who served in the US army, were found with gunshot wounds to the head. Their bodies were found in […]
Fifty years after Jamaican historian Robert Hill graduated from the University of Toronto, he returned to his Canadian alma mater to receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree ” “for his transformative scholarship in black history and Pan-Africanism.” Hill, a professor emeritus at University of California, Los Angeles, is considered the world’s leading authority on […]
About 70 students are expected to attend Canada’s first Black Graduation celebration at the University of Toronto next week. The event will be held at Hart House on the St. George campus on June 22, the final day of convocation at the University of Toronto. Graduates will already have received their parchments at one of […]
Kenneth Jeffers, the lone black member of the Toronto Police Services Board, has called for the suspension of the School Resource Officer program after deputations by several persons who spoke at Tuesday’s board meeting of the negative impact of police presence in schools. Through the program, police officers are now stationed in 75 schools across […]
