Prime Minister offers apology to descendants of the No. 2 Construction Battalion

Prime Minister offers apology to descendants of the No. 2 Construction Battalion

By Lincoln DePradine Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doesn’t want the contributions of Black military men, who served the country more than 100 years ago, to be “overlooked and forgotten’’, and he has issued an apology to them for the racism they experienced during the First World War. However, for many Blacks, racism in the Canadian […]

Drake’s Ovo festival is on. Good news – it doesn’t clash with the Carnival

Drake’s Ovo festival is on. Good news – it doesn’t clash with the Carnival

  Lebron to host Daylight Party at Lavelle poolside By Stephen Weir Is it good news for the Toronto Caribbean Carnival or is great news for Drake? The Toronto based singer traditionally holds a multi-day music festival at Ontario Place in and around the Caribana weekend. Some years the timing of the start of his […]

Black Scientists’ Task Force warns against letting down your guard against COVID

Black Scientists’ Task Force warns against letting down your guard against COVID

By Lincoln DePradine Black community members were severely impacted by the Coronavirus and, with thousands of them now participating in mass festive summer activities, a call is being made for people to exercise caution against getting infected with COVID-19. “We’re still in the pandemic,’’ warned Dr David Burt, co-chair of the Black Scientists’ Task Force […]

Prime Minister Trudeau kicked off Children’s parade amid cheers

Prime Minister Trudeau kicked off Children’s parade amid cheers

By Stephen Weir The Prime Minister of Canada has gotten a lot of ribbing from his critics for his new hairdo (some say it looks like Jim Carrey’s hairdo in Dumb and Dumber), but that did not faze the thousands of children who took part in Saturday’s Junior Parade. When CBC announcer and MC for […]

Pannist Joy Lapps releases her “Girl in the Yard” album

Pannist Joy Lapps releases her “Girl in the Yard” album

By Lincoln DePradine Recording artist and award-winning steel pannist and composer, Joy Lapps, continues a summer tour this weekend in Toronto, where she’ll perform songs from her newly released album titled, “Girl in the Yard’’. “It’s been a long time coming,’’ Lapps commented on the musical album, telling The Caribbean Camera it’s aimed at putting […]

Kiddies Parade of the Bands was hot, hot, hot in Malvern

Kiddies Parade of the Bands was hot, hot, hot in Malvern

Photos and article By Rebecca Kerr The sun was blazing hot, the loud, pulsating, infectious sounds of Soca music echoed thru the streets in Malvern as thousands of junior masqueraders, their parents, relatives and friends chipped, danced, jumped and waved for the return of kiddies’ carnival 2022. Thousands lined the street to welcome back The […]

Founder of PACE Canada dies at 94

Founder of PACE Canada dies at 94

Mavis Elaine Burke who founded Women for PACE, renamed PACE Canada, an organization initially set up to assist early childhood education in Jamaica, died on July 7 last at a nursing home in Markham, Ontario. She was 94. Burke who was born in Cuba to Jamaican parents, grew up in Jamaica and came to Canada […]

You’re invited to Pan Fantasy’s fund raising event next Tuesday July 26th

You’re invited to Pan Fantasy’s fund raising event next Tuesday July 26th

This year the Pan Fantasy Steel Orchestra will be celebrating 35 years of making beautiful music and to remember in the west end community in which the players played their first notes together. Since then the band has become one of the most successful bands in Toronto, winning eight Pan Alive competitions. Now they are […]

Trudeau shows up at Caribbean children’s carnival in Scarborough

Trudeau shows up at Caribbean children’s carnival in Scarborough

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a surprise visit to the Caribbean children’s carnival in Scarborough on Saturday. As masqueraders got together in Malvern for the 45th anniversary of children’s participation in the Toronto Caribbean carnival, the unexpected visitor from Ottawa along with several of his MPs and Ontario MPPs were welcomed to the event. The […]

Promoting peace through basketball

Promoting peace through basketball

Eight youth basketball teams took to the courts of a Lowertown park in Ottawa last Saturday for a tournament held in the memory of two young Black men shot and killed last summer, just minutes away. Dozens came out to watch the “Peace in the Streets” tournament in Jules Morin Park, which honoured 20-year-old Loris […]