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By Jack L. Rozdilsky Guest Contributor On Sunday at 7:23 a.m., residents of the Greater Toronto Area were abruptly awakened by an alert issued by Ontario’s Emergency Alert Ready System stating: “An incident was reported at the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. ...

By Constantine Gidaris Guest Contributor A 2019 surge of gang-related shootings in Toronto motivated the Ontario government to commit $3 million to double the number of Toronto Police surveillance cameras in the city. The Toronto Police could now go to 74 ...

TORONTO, Ontario January 10, 2020 — Operation Black Vote Canada (OBVC) — established in 2004 as a non-profit and multi-partisan organization that supports the election of Black people to public office — has launched its inaugural 1834 Fellowship program. Named ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Well, here we are, right smack bang into another New Year and the start of another decade, coinciding with the Quebec government’s desire to launch a new identification system for its citizens to use, in ...

ONTARIO, Canada Monday, January 6, 2020 — The first batch of 2020 Jamaican farm-workers departed their homeland, and arrived in Canada, last Friday. A total of 228 workers will be arriving, between January 3 and today, to take up employment opportunities ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Readers, forgive me if I fail to reflect any change in my approach now that 2020 has arrived. In fact, in the name of progress and enlightenment, I have resolved to be even more brutally ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 31, 2019 (CMC) – Police are investigating the murders of Canadian-based Guyanese, Vivekanand Narpatty, 71, and another person, after their decomposing bodies were found at the now-defunct Sun Splash Hotel in Corentyne, east of here, last Friday. ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Writer On December 18, Quebec’s Public Security Minister, Geneviève Guilbault, announced the commencement of an overhaul, aimed at modernizing and making Quebec’s police forces more answerable and accountable. At a news conference kicking off the consultation ...

OTTAWA, Ontario December 20, 2019 — Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, met with Allen Chastanet, the Prime Minister of St. Lucia and current Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on Wednesday, to discuss the longstanding partnership between Canada and St. Lucia, ...

By Michael Van Cooten Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario December 17, 2019 — On a wet, relatively-warm December day, last Saturday, hundreds mourned as they witnessed the burial of one of Toronto’s unsung heroes, Ronald “Jimmy” Ashford Wisdom, at the Highland Memory ...