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  By Bonny Ibhawoh Guest Writer America’s failure to understand, acknowledge and resolve the continuing catastrophe of slavery is holding back the entire nation. Without broad public recognition that the country’s original wealth was derived unjustly through slavery, and that deliberate ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 18, 2019 (CMC) – Canada is urging non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Jamaica to submit proposals for small-scale, but high-impact, projects that align with Ottawa’s international assistance priorities. Canada’s High Commissioner to Jamaica, Laurie Peters, said the proposals ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 26, 2019 (CMC) – Guyana signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Canadian Audit and Accountability Foundation (CAAF), on Sunday, to ensure improved transparency in the management of public resources. A government statement said that the ...

By Randy Boswell Guest Writer OTTAWA, Ontario April 23, 2019 — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s threatened defamation suit against Conservative Leader, Andrew Scheer, over the SNC-Lavalin affair, is just the latest in a rapidly growing list of Canadian political mud-slinging ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario April 18, 2019 — The City of Toronto has formally recognized the United Nations’ Decade for People of African Descent, 2015-2024, and reaffirmed its commitment to its Confronting Anti-Black Racism Plan. Aina-Nia Ayo’dele ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer PEEL DISTRICT, Ontario April 18, 2019 — Trustees of the Peel District School Board (PDSB) have approved a motion, to embark on a targeted recruitment initiative, to hire Black and Indigenous teachers. The Board says ...

TORONTO, Ontario April 18, 2019 — The province’s official opposition, the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP), has formed a parliamentary Black Caucus — “Ontario’s first formal, Black caucus in a political party”. The opposition party made the announcement, in a ...

ST. CATHERINES, Ontario April 16, 2019 — After years of partnering with one another on various initiatives, Brock University and the University of the West Indies (UWI) are now considering the creation of the Institute for Canada-Caribbean Studies. The universities ...

By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator The leader of the American civil rights movement and Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr, once said: “Nothing in the entire world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Currently Quebec ...

By Michael J. Armstrong Guest Writer Ontario’s first legal cannabis shops are finally here. One challenge they’ll face is Canada’s nationwide product shortage. That’s despite repeated federal government assurances of ample supplies. Cannabis shortages certainly seem to exist. Ontario blames ...