After suffering a setback as a teenager that nearly halted her career before it even started, Deanne Rose rebounded to play a starring role for Canada at the last two Olympics. Rose had aspirations of playing professional soccer while growing up in Alliston, Ont. But she made the decision in 2014 to quit the sport […]
By Lincoln DePradine Jamaican-born Caffery Vanhorne, who is co-hosting a new Canadian television show focusing on home design and renovations, says he brings his Caribbean background to the weekly program on HGTV. The TV show, which premiered this past Tuesday, is titled “Styled”. It’s co-hosted by Vanhorne and Nicole Babb. “Coming from a West Indian background, […]
A statue honoring Mary Ann Shadd Cary was unveiled in Windsor last Thursday. Cary, an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher and lawyer, was the first Black woman in North America to establish a newspaper. Born in 1823 in Wilmington, Delaware, Cary and her family worked to free enslaved people as part of the Underground […]
By Stephen Weir Forgot how busy summer is in the city of Toronto? The weekly Caribbean Camera carnival list begins here. With the Covid Pandemic apparently in retreat, Carnival event planners have quickly booked event halls, outdoor concert venues and even amusement parks for every weekend of the spring and summer all beginning this weekend. […]
By Lincoln DePradine One of the leading Black business owners in the United States is advocating for cooperation between Americans and Canadians in achieving “economic freedom to all minorities’’, and in obtaining greater equity in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. “What I want to be is a bridge to bring people together in […]
By Yolanda T. Marshall Annually, one in five Canadians battles with a mental illness. According to CAMH, the disease burden of mental illness in Ontario alone is 1.5 times higher than all cancers put together and over seven times that of all infectious diseases. Reports of poor mental health are higher amongst the lowest income […]
In north Scarborough, Canada Post is building a mail processing centre that will open early next year. It’s the largest zero carbon-producing industrial project of its kind in Canada. The state-of-the-art facility will be able to process a million packages a day, and have them ready for dispatch in four minutes. Last Friday Canada post […]
Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath says affordable housing will be a priority for her party, if it wins the provincial elections come June 2. In an interview with The Caribbean Camera while on the campaign trail last week, Horwath noted that the NDP plans to partner with municipalities and other “providers” to build 100,000 housing […]
Guyana Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira told an audience in Toronto last week that she is sanguine about Guyana’s prospects despite the recent challenges posed by flooding, COVID, etc. Oil and gas offer real opportunities for Guyana to fulfil the promise of a better life for every citizen. But she cautioned that […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon A 39-year-old Canadian citizen who I will refer to as Abu was recently successful before the Immigration Appeal Division (IAD). The negative decision on his sponsorship application made on behalf of his 32-year-old spouse, who is a citizen of Sudan (who I will refer to as Gammy) was quashed and the appeal […]