By Nora Loreto The Orlando massacre is heartbreaking. As details emerge about the victims, as their humanity shines through their images and stories, as we hear about the children, parents, friends and lovers they leave behind, trying to make sense of what is so obviously senseless seems futile. Mainstream media and politicians of all stripes, […]
Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) told The Camera they are pleased with the Jermaine Carby coroner’s inquest’s 14 recommendations, some of which highlighted that officers’ unconscious racial bias played a role in his death. Those recommendations were made to avoid future fatalities in similar circumstances. In what BADC representatives said was confirmation of their position, […]
By Gerald V. Paul “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it,”- Malcolm X (as seen in the ACLC office). Malcolm X’s mother Louise Little was born in Grenada, came to Canada and was eventually a follower of Jamaica’s Marcus Garvey, the […]
Former Camera columnist Tanya Walker is set to become the first Black woman Toronto bencher in the Law Society’s 219-year history. With roots in Jamaica, Walker, founder of Walker Law Professional Corporation, who was called to the bar in 2006, is expected to become a bencher this June when the current treasurer’s term ends. The […]
Toronto Police Board will soon make public the results of a Toronto police review of the fatal shooting of Andrew Loku and develop a process to release similar internal reports in the future, the board said in a media release. It is expected the new process will be implemented by June 17. But this only […]
A spokesman for the Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) said, “In reviewing the testimony from the Jermaine Carby inquest a number of troubling revelations have come up.” BADC Director Kingsley P. Gilliam said the committee is demanding that the Attorney General of Ontario bring charges against Const. Justin Chittenden, one of the officers involved. Gilliam […]
Toronto including the Caribbean Diaspora are praying for the survival of a baby boy taken at just 20 weeks by C-section as his mother lay dying of a gunshot would inflicted by a gunman branded by a Toronto Police superintendent as disgraceful and a coward. The baby is in stable condition, hospital officials say, but […]
Brampton’s first Jamaican-born city Councilor Garnett Manning welcomed the news that Court of Appeal Justice Michael Tulloch will head the review of police oversight bodies. Tulloch will lead an independent review of the three agencies that oversee police conduct in the province: the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the Office of the Independent Police Review Director […]
“For those who you who think police carding is over, I was just arbitrarily stopped and questioned by @ Hamilton Police as a city councillor in my own city,” Matthew Green tweeted. Green said that last Friday as he was waiting for a bus he was approached by two police officers in a car and […]
“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. We cannot adhere to an unjust law.” Those long-ago words by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King have the solid ring of truth to them today as Black Lives Matter strives for its cause in Toronto. An example of Black Lives Matter local chapter’s issues […]
