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Heroine of American Revolution’s worst privateer attack on a Nova Scotian community By Yvonne SamContributing Columnist It has been said that heroes are ordinary people, who are revealed in the midst of extraordinary circumstances. If this statement holds true, then ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Friday July 29, 2022) — Jamaican-Canadian communities in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Hamilton and Niagara, will host a series of events, to mark Jamaica’s 60th Anniversary of Independence, starting July 31 and culminating on October 2022. This ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Editor It wasn’t until 2017 that award-winning stage and screen actor, writer, producer, and director, Ngozi Paul, found out that August 1 was Emancipation Day. Since then, she has committed herself to engaging Canadians to know ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) — With summer entertainment on the agenda, major cultural festivals and outdoor events are a big attraction for the province’s Black community, which is why the Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity (BSTF) ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Editor TORONTO, Ontario (Tuesday, July 19, 2022) — Dr. Mavis Elaine Burke, the founder of the Toronto-based Project for Advancement of Childhood Education (Canada) — P.A.C.E. Canada — died, peacefully, earlier this month, at the age ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday July 13, 2022) — Despite two years of virtual events, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 13th Annual University of the West Indies Toronto Benefit Awards gala was a sold-out, in-person affair that was held at The ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Tuesday, July 12, 2022) — In high school, Tenzin Choephel knew he wanted to be an Emergency Services provider. “It was either policing or firefighting,” he said. Choephel, who speaks four languages, eventually settled for a law enforcement ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Last month, Toronto’s Police Chief, James Ramer, apologized to the public, following revelation of the police’s own analysis, and what has been known to all and sundry from time immemorial. — the bias in policing, ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday, June 29, 2022) — The Indo-Caribbean Canadian Association (“ICCA”), earlier this month, conducted a successful “Books for Back Home Book Drive” that resulted in “a record number of donations”, which was shipped to Guyana and Trinidad and ...

By Michael L. Van Cooten Publisher & Editor BRAMPTON, Ontario (Monday, June 27, 2022) — Joyce Temple-Smith was elected as President of the United Achievers’ Club (UAC), at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), held June 18, for a two-year ...