The deadly COVID-19 virus has changed many routines and negatively impacted many traditions, including a Caribbean Mother’s Day event held annually in Ontario. For 19 years, well-known Jamaican actor Oliver Samuels has been entertaining Caribbean nationals in the province with a Mother’s Day show. And for his 20th-year show in 2020, he was scheduled to […]
A 13- year-old violinist from Vaughan, Ontario will perform at one the most prestigious concert venues in the world – Carnegie Hall in New York City. Lincoln Haggart-Ives has been chosen to perform before hundreds this June after his mother entered him in the American Protege Music Competition. “I couldn’t believe it, I thought I […]
Theatre Shorts By: Stephen Weir The Obsidian Theatre, Canada’s leading culturally diverse theatre company is now going through a major change. After twenty years, the theatre’s founder and CEO has retired. He has been replaced by a young African Canadian director who will take over the running of the company in August. Philip Akin has been acting […]
