Members of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Toronto staged a sit-in at the Pride Toronto parade on Sunday, bringing it to a halt for about half an hour. Alexandra Williams, a co-founder of BLM Toronto, said that they held the sit-in because they wanted to hold Pride Toronto accountable for “anti-blackness.” “We are not taking any space […]
On 23 June 2016, the British people voted in favour of leaving the European Union (EU). The referendum vote was a close one – 52 per cent to 48 per cent. A recent poll in the United Kingdom has indicated that there has been some buyer’s remorse. About seven per cent of those who voted […]
In a spectacular blaze of colour, under a blazing sun, Toronto Caribbean carnival 2016 was launched yesterday at Nathan Phillips Square. Officially opening the festival was Toronto Mayor John Tory. Onstage were more than 100 models in costume from no fewer than 12 mas’ bands as the rhythmic sounds of soca, the steelband and tassa […]
August 17, 1946- July 2, 2016 SAN FERNANDO, Trinidad – Former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning died at hospital here on Saturday. He was 69. He died of acute myeloid leukemia, his family said in a statement on his official Facebook page. Manning who was the longest serving Member of Parliament […]
A family of four Armenian Christians from Lebanon who sought refugee protection in Canada, was recently successful in getting the Federal Court of Canada to set aside a negative decision made against them by the Refugee Appeal Decision(RAD). The Court ordered that their matter be reviewed by a different panel of the RAD. The family […]
Believe it or not, there is good news about the possibility of an improvement in the delivery of police services in Ontario. The bad news is that too many police officers in Ontario do not care about public opinion on this subject. In fact, many junior and senior police officers have clearly demonstrated that their […]
Today I put the question to our Caribbean community: Do we have ” Common Ground”? If we do, where were our Caribbean community media representatives when Ontario’s Ombudsman Paul Dube released his historic report titled “A Matter of Life and Death” at Queen’s Park last Friday? Yes, the Eyes Guy was the only community media […]
The Montreal Canadiens yesterday traded P.K. Subban, formerly of Toronto, to the Nashville Predators for Shea Weber to complete one of the NHL’s biggest trades in recent history. The Predators gain nearly four years – Subban is 27 and Weber will be 31 in August – and Subban’s energetic puck-moving style, which is a better fit […]
Soca superstar Machel Montano has taken his fast-paced jump up music to the White House. Strumming a cuatro, Montano, who is considered Trinidad and Tobago’s leading soca artiste, sang his 2009 hit ” Dance with you” to a delighted audience at the home of the President of the United States. He was one of several […]
Since its inception in 1995, A Different Booklist bookstore has had the distinct pleasure of launching Austin’s entire book in Canada. In 2014, A Different Booklist, in partnership with the Government of Barbados and Harbourfront Centre, dedicated a bench in the Ontario Square in honor of Austin Clarke, a Grandfather of Canadian and Commonwealth literature. […]
