By Lincoln DePradine More than 200 people showed up at the Jamaican Canadian Centre last Friday evening to “meet, greet and support ” Black candidates in the June 7 provincial elections in Ontario. Twenty-one candidates were invited to the event but just over a dozen were present. A few of them, including two government […]
Adaoma Patterson, an adviser with the strategic planning team in the Human Services Department in the Region of Peel, has been re-elected President of the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) for a second term. Patterson has served as president of the JCA since 2016. Also re-elected last week for a second term to the JCA’s Board […]
By Stephen Weir /Photographs by Don Moreland The sexy fishnet stockings and tights and the angel wings from the adult carnival costumes launches in Toronto have been put away and now it’s the children’s turn to show their stuff on stage. This weekend there are three junior costumes launches – Tribal Carnival and Sunlime Mas’on […]
About 200 people -mainly in the 50-plus age range – took a musical trip down memory lane last Saturday night at the sixth annual presentation of Nostalgia at the Metropolitan Centre in Scarborough. Don Silver Fox Ali and his band serenaded the audience with calypso classics, Indian hits and other popular numbers of yesteryear at […]
By Lincoln DePradine “Change’’ was one of the words repeatedly used by three of the candidates contesting the Scarborough North riding in the June 7 Ontario general elections. Dwayne Morgan, a published author and one of Canada’s leading spoken word artistes, is making his first bid at elected politics as a candidate for the New […]
Conrad “Terry” Gibbs who served as Grenada’s Consul General in Toronto from 2002 to 2006, died at the Scarborough General hospital on February 27 last. He was 76. After graduating from Presentation Boy’s College in Grenada, Gibbs went to St.Lucia where he taught at St. Mary’s College. He later earned a bachelor’s degree from Inter-American […]
OTTAWA – The 20I8 federal budget, tabled on Tuesday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau. in addressing multiculturalism, noted the “challenges faced by Black Canadians.” It said ” recent domestic and international events, like the rise of ultranationalist movements, and protests against immigration, visible minorities and religious minorities, remind us that standing up for diversity and […]
hang February 6 -25, 2018 The Berkeley Street Theatre 26 Berkeley St. (King and Parliament) Toronto REVIEW By Stephen Weir A big part of Black History Month in Toronto is celebrating the Diaspora on “the boards”. This month, Canada’s leading Black theatre organization opened hang, a very dark comedy that is a #MeToo take on […]
A “retired” Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) bus, now out of service for several months, is expected to be ” soon back on the road.” But it will not be picking up regular passengers. Instead, it will become a mobile shower for the homeless. Dominica-born Deborah Daniel, a program manager with a Toronto organization of women […]
I recently received a letter from a regular reader of my column who wanted advice on a matter of serious concern. I have since informed her that because of the seriousness of the issue which she raised in her letter and for the benefit of other readers, I would like to discuss the matter in […]
