Report and pictures by Stephen Weir Monday. Just an hour before the CNE gates shut for the last time this year, Wendy Jones stood on the fair’s International Stage and asked an audience how they are all feeling. A crowd of 1,000 pan enthusiasts shouted back long and loud. “Hot. Hot. Hot!” Wendy Jones and […]
The first Monday in September has been an official holiday in Canada since 1894, and in the United States since 1892. But the origin of Labour Day came 20 years before that, when unions started holding parades and rallies in Toronto and Ottawa to celebrate the successful 1872 Toronto printers’ strike – the original “fight […]
By Stephen Weir The annual Dora Mavor Moore Award is the oldest and largest grouping of prizes honouring the very best in theatre, dance, and opera in Toronto. This year, the 42nd for the Awards, there are 46 different award categories up for grabs! The late Dora Mavor Moore was born in Scotland in 1888 […]
Andria Babbington: “when working people win power in our workplaces and in our communities everyone benefits” Thousands of workers marched through the streets of Toronto on Monday in support of their trade unions at the Labour Day parade which returned to the city for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We […]
Photos by Dave Douglas On August 31st Anslem Douglas wowed fans at the CNE with a big return to his adopted hometown of Toronto. The Trinbagonian soca legend rocked the CNE Bandshell stage, backed by popular jazz musician Eddie Bullen and his band, with a rousing rendition of fan favourite “Dance with You”, and closing […]
By Yolanda Marshall Alison Isaac is a Caribbean-Canadian writer and educator based in Canada. Her first children’s book, Kookumbah, revolves around Sasha’s having a tough time settling into her new school while trying to make her Caribbean mother conform to what she regards as the ‘norms’ of their new country. Her attitude […]
By Anthony Joseph I recently delved into the archives of The Caribbean Camera for the year 1998 to see what had taken place at the Caribana Festival, then organized by its founders, the Caribbean Cultural Committee (CCC). There was a media launch, then the official launch of the festival, three boat rides, the king […]
He said that he will stop singing some songs Mighty Sparrow, the undisputed Calypso King of the World, was baptized on Saturday at Far Rockaway Beach in Queens, New York. Sparrow, 87, whose real name is Slinger Francisco, was “taken into the water of Holy Baptism by Vincentian Seventh Day Adventist Pastor, Claudius Morgan.” Morgan, […]
A judge has given a church permission to remove a memorial to 18th Century slave owner, John Gordon. The plaque at St Peter’s, Dorchester, England, has been partially covered up for nearly two years while the church sought approval to take it down. The church took steps to remove the stone, which commends the plantation […]
By Carlton Joseph Abraham Lincoln: “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure; permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will […]