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Toronto, Ontario, November 11, 2019 – The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP), the largest service provider of its kind in Canada, is celebrating a momentous milestone, later this month, and will also honour its founders. The organization will ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist In The Mis-Education of the Negro, author Carter Woodson, acknowledged as the “father” of Black History, asserts that Blacks sometimes choose their own leaders but, unfortunately, they are too often the wrong kind. We do ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist The definition of colour has always been somewhat enigmatic, and in my opinion, nothing could be more misleading than the term, applicable to any person, who is not “white”. In today’s world the term has ...

OTTAWA, Ontario October 17, 2019 (CMC) – The government of Canada has updated the emergency status for Jamaica on a travel advisory, due to a continued high level of violent crime. In an advisory, the Canadian government noted that the ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist There is a familiar French expression, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”, which when translated says, the more things change the more they remain the same. Following the recent announcement of a class ...

By Tamari Kitossa Guest Writer In the wake of recent events during the federal election, it seems to me that if Canadians are to address the continuing significance of race and racism, we had better make up our minds to do ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, October 4, 2019 (CMC) – The Antigua and Barbuda government and the Canada-based Scotiabank have agreed to a news blackout, regarding the discussions over the sale of the bank’s branch in the Caribbean island. Antigua ...

By Gregory C Mason Guest Writer Beware of politicians’ gifts, especially during election campaigns. Most political presents involve increased spending, but a growing list of promises have to do with changes to taxation. The Conservatives and Liberals, the main contenders in ...

By Ewart Walters Guest Writer How long is the Canadian media going to continue skimming the surface issue of blackface, without plumbing the depths of the real story of anti-Black racism, race and color prejudice, and white privilege in what ...

By Philip S. S. Howard Guest Writer The news that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau performed in blackface when he was a student and a teacher has once again made blackface the topic of the day — this time in the middle ...