By Stephen Weir Radio Station CKFG-FM (G-98.7) which was placed in receivership in June last year, is still up for sale. Deadline for interested parties to submit written letters of intent with respect to the purchase of the station was Friday, August 7, last. But A. Farber & Partners Inc., the court-appointed receiver of the […]
Six persons – five men and one woman- were shot outside Spence’s Bakery on Eglinton Avenue West in Toronto hours before dawn yesterday morning. The shooting in the neighbourhood known as “Little Jamaica” is believed to be “gang-related” but police say some of the people who were shot were innocent bystanders. According to the police, […]
By Lincoln DePradine A Toronto lawyer says almost four weeks after writing Steven Davidson, secretary to the cabinet of Premier Doug Ford, about Black employees’ experience of a “corrosive’’ and “toxic workplace’’ in the Ontario Public Service (OPS), he is yet to receive a response from Davidson. “Do I expect him to write me? It […]
It is not easy for young people to navigate the Canadian justice System (CJS) – especially when they aren’t white! Just someone’s opinion? Or a matter of fact? Well, it’s a fact, according to both civic and community groups. Recently, Toronto, Mayor John Tory, several community leaders, the police and spokespersons for the provincial […]
The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC), in a report released on Monday, has found that Black people are disproportionately” arrested, charged, over-charged, struck, shot or killed by Toronto police.” The findings are part of the Commission’s second interim report into anti-Black racial profiling and discrimination by the Toronto Police Service. Titled “A Disparate Impact,” the […]
Canada’s 8th annual Ride For Freedom is coming to a Smart Phone near year for 2020. Scheduled to take place on August 1, the train ride to mark Emancipation Day, will be online this year. At the Annual Emancipation Day Underground Freedom Ride in Toronto, about 1,000 people usually take a midnight trip by subway […]
Did Regis Korchinski-Paquet fall to her death from her 24th floor apartment ? Or was the 29-year old Black woman pushed? Or is there some other explaination as to how her lifeless body ended up on Wednesday last week in front of the High Park Avenue high-rise building in Toronto where she lived, after police […]
Letter from the Publisher Happy birthday to us Dear Readers, We are proud to announce that The Caribbean Camera is now 30 years old. Unfortunately, at this time , we are experiencing problems which we have never had before in the entire history of the newspaper. As many of our faithful readers are aware, back […]
While all art galleries are closed in Ontario, there is a new curated photography show on display in downtown Toronto. It’s an exhibition of the work of Jamaican-Canadian photographer Christina Leslie launched by The Black Artists’ Network in Dialogue (BAND) gallery . Although the BAND building on Brock Avenue (near Dufferin and Dundas West Streets) […]
FOCUS ON HEALTH Degenerative disc disease in the low back By Virginia Nsitem This article will discuss a case of a patient who came to my clinic with complaints of low back pain. Initial consultation A middle-aged female patient called my office and made an appointment to see me for her complaints of low back […]
