West Indies superstar Chris Gayle became the first batsman to score 10,000 runs in Twenty20s when he belted a typically bellicose half-century to fire Royal Challengers Bangalore to a 21-run win over Dwayne Smith’s Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League on Tuesday. The veteran left-hander, who has not played for West Indies in 12 […]
No one envies the task facing Ontario Education Minister Mitzie Hunter after the publication of the damning Report on the ugly state of affairs at the York Region District School Board. This latest review has nothing positive to say about the operations of the York School Board. And all of the negative things it includes […]
By Judy Pham A black parent who was called a nigger by a recently resigned York Region District School board trustee, has launched a human rights complaint against the Board. Charline Grant is seeking $20,000 in her claim for damages to her ” dignity and self respect.” Grant said that last November Trustee Nancy […]
THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: Since 1974, police oversight in Ontario has been the subject of more than a dozen reviews, generating hundreds of recommendations for reform. However, finding the right balance between effective policing and public accountability has proven elusive. Do you believe that Justice Michael Tulloch’s report, just released, will lead to greater transparency of […]
A Guyanese man was arrested on Saturday evening by police in the Regional Municipality of Durham, east of Toronto, and charged with the murder of his pregnant wife. Nicholas Tyler Baig, 25. of Pickering who was picked up by police in Markham, Ontario,was charged with second degree murder in the death of 27-year old Arianna […]
Trinidad-born artist Beverley Tang-Kong, manager of the Mississauga community art gallery, Imagemaker Art Prints, died on March 20 last in Mississauga after a lengthy illness. She was 62. Tang-Kong who taught art in Mississauga for several years, studied graphic design at George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto after graduating from the […]
“Racial profiling has a serious impact on the credibility and effectiveness of our police services. It has led to distrust and injustice. It must stop,” wrote Justice Harriet Sachs of the Ontario Divisional court last week. Justice Sachs was writing on behalf of a panel of judges who found that Mutaz Elmardy, a Sudanese man […]
After seven months of public consultations and private meetings, Ontario Justice Michael Tulloch last week released his report on police oversight in the province. The Independent Police Oversight Review, as the report is titled, calls for greater transparency of the province’s three police watchdogs – the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the Office of the […]
It is not at all surprising that the recently released Tulloch Report should identify so many areas in which Ontario’s system of police oversight can and should be significantly improved. The need for such surgical intervention has been frequently highlighted in the public outcry for justice, accountability and transparency in recent months and years. In […]
By Michael Lashley Mississauga and the broader Caribbean community in the GTA have lost one of their guiding lights, the late Beverley Tang-Kong, affectionately known as “Bev”. Bev passed away on March 20, 2017. On March 25, 2017, her husband Jerry and her sons Andrew and Geoffrey were warmly supported by their extended family and […]
