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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 ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 8, 2019 (CMC) — Barbados’ Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, left here for Canada, where she will hold talks on environmental and financial issues. She travels to Canada to meet with senior officials of McGill University, to discuss ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, April 8, 2019 (CMC) – An Air Canada flight was forced to make an emergency landing at the Grantly Adams International Airport, on Saturday, following a medical emergency, in which 94-year-old German man died, on board. The authorities ...

MISSISSAUGA-MALTON, Ontario April 8, 2019 — The immediate-past President of the Ontario Black History Society, Nikki Clarke, was selected, unanimously, by local riding association members, as the New Democratic Party’s (NDP) candidate for the Mississauga-Malton riding, to run in the ...