Two teen-aged mas’ players from Whitby were adjudged king and queen respectively on Sunday at the first Junior King and Queen competition to be held in the 50-year history of the Toronto Caribbean carnival. Evan Murphy, 13, from the band, Venom Carnival, who portrayed ” Centipede Bite,” won the Junior King title. Winner of the […]
A study, released yesterday, is shedding light on the types of interactions members of the black community in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) have with police officers. More than 50 per cent of those surveyed said they have been stopped by police in public places and that number jumps to nearly 80 per cent among males between […]
This week’s question: The Ontario government announced last week in its budget that it will provide free prescription drugs to young people up to age 25.The medicines will be provided to everyone in that age group regardless of their income or their parents’ income. Should free prescriptions drugs be provided to low income people of […]
“To Wynne or not to Wynne: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to pardon the slings and arrows of some unfortunate Liberal policy decisions we don’t like, Or to take arms against her and end up drowned in the sea of troubles to be flooded upon us by Brown’s bitter […]
Guyana-born businessman Lionel M. Bedessee who founded Bedessee Imports Limited of Toronto, died on March 11 last after a lengthy illness. He was 83.. His company which is a major supplier of Caribbean food products, was founded in 1977 when there were few West Indian stores in the city. With the growth and expansion of […]
So you think you know all the countries of the world? Well, where is Vanuatu ? Or the Malvinas? Okay. So you had to scratch your head and think awhile before answering. Well, meet four-year old Isiah McDonald, a geography whiz kid who isn’t stumped for an answer when asked about any country. He can […]
This week’s question: Toronto police say that there is an eight per cent increase in the number of reported hate and bias crimes in 2016, compared with 2015, but that arrests have decreased over the same period. Commenting on the report on hate and bias crimes, released last week, Nigel Barriffee, president of the Urban Alliance […]
Toronto police report an eight per cent increase in the number of reported hate and bias crimes in 2016, compared with 2015, though the numbers of arrests have decreased in the same period. There were 145 reported cases of hate and bias crimes in 2016 and eleven arrests. In 2015, […]
Grenada-born Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Member of Parliament for Whitby, Ontario and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development, vividly recalls a conversation she had with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shortly after she attended the black government leaders’ summit in Toronto last summer. “When I returned to Ottawa, I immediately called the prime minister and a […]
This week’s question: A report, released last Thursday, found that Jamaica-born Senator Don Meredith breached the senate’s ethics code by engaging in an inappropriate sexual relationship with a young woman which started when she was 16 years old. The report found that he did not uphold the highest standard of dignity inherent to his position. […]
