It’s time for richer nations to change the way they deal with global health crises like COVID-19 and monkeypox, say some of the experts who attended the recent international AIDS conference in Montreal. “It’s about greed and it’s about power and it’s about a system that is deep-rooted in generations and millennia of racist attitudes […]
By Sonia Courtney After attending all of the major events at the Toronto Caribbean Carnival 2022 as a media representative, I would like to point out to the organizers of the festival some areas which require their urgent attention. First of all, the King and Queen show at Lamport Stadium. The stage appeared to […]
You have seen him on The Porter, Canada’s largest Black-led TV series, and if you take the Underground Railroad Train this Sunday night, you will be joining the series writer/actor/producer Arnold Pinnock on another critically important train ride. Another much celebrated Toronto Black actor, Conrad Coates will be sharing speaking roles right beside Pinnock. The […]
Google, the multinational company that focuses on search engine technology, highlighted the steel pan, the national musical instrument of Trinidad and Tobago, on Tuesday. Its “Google Doodle Tuesday” coincided with the 71st anniversary of the Trinidad All-Steel Pan Percussion Orchestra’s (TASPO) performance at the Festival of Britain, which introduced the steelpan and a new music […]
By Eleanor P. Sam Some years ago, I listened to two young Black colleagues joshing. One, who was born in a Caribbean nation, commented to the other, born in a West African nation: ‘you guys sold us, so you shouldn’t be given a chance to celebrate August 1st.’ This back and forth continued for a […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon Recently a 49-year-old citizen of Jamaica, who I will refer to as Ricardo, was a former permanent resident of Canada and was successful in the Federal Court in having a negative humanitarian and compassionate application for permanent residence set aside. The facts of his case are as follows: He first arrived in […]
A special 20th anniversary edition of late Toronto writer Austin Clarke’s award-winning novel The Polished Hoe will be published this fall. The new edition, published by Dundurn Press, will feature a foreword by Clarke’s former roommate, writer and professor Rinaldo Walcott, as well as a new cover commissioned from Toronto visual artist Shawn Skeir. Skeir’s […]
Nаdègе St-Phіlірре, a рrоmіnеnt TV hоѕt and weather presenter оn Quеbес’ѕ TVA tеlеvіѕіоn nеtwоrk ѕіnсе 2006, died lаѕt Sаturdау evening, аftеr she hаd been dіаgnоѕеd with cancer for thе ѕесоnd time in hеr lіfе lаtе last уеаr. Tributes роurеd in frоm several оthеr Quebec tеlеvіѕіоn personalities аnd рublіс fіgurеѕ, аѕ thеу bесаmе аwаrе of St-Phіlірре’ѕ […]
Photos and article By Rebecca Kerr The sun was blazing hot, the loud, pulsating, infectious sounds of Soca music echoed thru the streets in Malvern as thousands of junior masqueraders, their parents, relatives and friends chipped, danced, jumped and waved for the return of kiddies’ carnival 2022. Thousands lined the street to welcome back The […]
By Lincoln DePradine Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn’t want the contributions of Black military men, who served the country more than 100 years ago, to be “overlooked and forgotten’’, and he has issued an apology to them for the racism they experienced during the First World War. However, for many Blacks, racism in the Canadian […]
