Nova Scotia adds $5 million to sports budgets to increase access, diversity HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s Liberal government is investing $5 million in measures aimed at making sports more inclusive, as well as more accessible to people with disabilities. Premier Iain Rankin announced the investment includes $2 million in added funding for KidSport, a program […]
Alica Hall, curator and executive director of Nia Centre for the Arts at the Here Again, At The Crossroads art exhibition at Union Station in Toronto. The exhibition was launched on Tuesday. Hall stands next to a 15 foot installation created by Jordan Sook ,a Toronto-based mixed media artist, The installation entitled Thank You for […]
Editorial This pandemic of racism We note with deep sadness that anti-Asian violence and harassment is now on the rise in the United States and Canada. Last week, six Asian women were among those killed when a gunman opened fire in three Atlanta-area massage parlours. And according to a newly released survey, nearly 1,200 anti-Asian […]
Jamaica’s Governor General lauds new poet laureate KINGSTON, Jamaica – Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen has lauded Jamaica’s new poet laureate, Olive Senior, for her work focusing on issues of the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking during a virtual investiture ceremony last week, at King’s House, the Governor General’s officials residence, Sir Patrick said Senior’s recent collection of […]
Jamaica-born community organizer Craig Wellington has been appointed executive director of Black Opportunity Fund (BOF), a partnership comprising “businesses, philanthropists, foundations and the Black community.” Wellington is a member of the Mississauga Mayor’s Black Caucus, and an advisory board member of the Black Community Action Network (BCAN) of Peel Region. He is also a former […]
ECLAC special report addresses socioeconomic repercussions of COVID-19 in the Caribbean SANTIAGO, Chile — A new, joint report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has analyzed the socioeconomic repercussions of COVID-19 in the Caribbean and the urgency of moving towards […]
Twelve community leaders to receive 2021 Harry Jerome awards at BBPA first virtual gala Twelve leaders of the Canadian Black community will be among the honorees at the 39th annual Harry Jerome Awards to held at a virtual gala on Saturday April 17. The gala, presented by the Black Business and Professional Association, (BBPA) is […]
Blacks urged to build institutions and decide on their own leaders By Lincoln DePradine Agencies that are recruiting Black community members to their board of directors,will do well, in their attempts to demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion, to choose Black people who possess “a racial consciousness’’, according to Dr Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, […]
Canadian MPs vote to condemn Atlanta mass shooting, anti-Asian racism OTTAWA – Members of Canada’s Parliament have passed a motion to condemn the rise of anti-Asian racism and racist attacks in North America, and to express its unanimous horror at the shootings in Georgia last week. The motion was introduced by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh […]
Miss Universe, Janelle Commissiong, 43 years later By Oscar Wailoo The dreary months of February and March in these northern climes are months when the winter-weary get all the time they need to reflect on life, the reawaking that comes with spring, and warm summer days. Planned or mere chance, the decisions to associate these […]
