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By Neil ArmstrongContributing Editor BRAMPTON, Ontario (Wednesday, March 8, 2023) — A Jamaican-Canadian professor wants Black Canadians, who have succeeded in life, to reimagine how they can help others, who are not their relatives and, in doing so, generate wealth ...

OTTAWA, Ontario (Monday, February 20, 2023) — Shalene Curtis-Micallef was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada, last week Monday. She had served as Associate Deputy Minister of the Department of Justice Canada, since September 1, ...

OTTAWA, Ontario (Friday, February 17, 2023) — Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, concluded his visit, yesterday, to Nassau, The Bahamas — where he attended, as a special guest — the three-day 44th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of ...

By Neil ArmstrongContributing Editor TORONTO, Ontario (Friday February 17, 2023) — Several construction trade unions and partnering organizations are collaborating with Afroglobal Television, to honour the No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during World War 1, as the highlight ...

By Neil ArmstrongContributing Editor TORONTO, Ontario (Friday, February 17, 2023) — An eminent group of Black scientists in Ontario has proposed that the provincial government adopt its vision of “an evidence-informed public system approach that supports the equitable health, wellbeing ...

By Yvonne SamContributing Columnist BackgroundThe Universal Negro Improvement Association, a Black nationalist organization, was founded in July 1914 by Marcus Garvey in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1916, Garvey moved to Harlem, in New York City, and two years later, established the ...

By Neil ArmstrongContributing Editor OTTAWA, Ontario (Friday, February 3, 2023) — When Sharon Burey attended her swearing-in ceremony at the Senate of Canada in December, she was accompanied by another Jamaican-Canadian, Senator Rosemary Moodie, and Senator Marc Gold. In November, ...

By Neil ArmstrongContributing Editor MONTREAL, Quebec (Thursday, February 2, 2023) — Air Canada says its increase in fees for additional checked baggage on flights from Kingston, Jamaica, to Canada and the U.S. is, in part, to encourage customers to “pack ...

By Neil ArmstrongContributing Editor TORONTO, Ontario — Businessman, former publisher, and human rights activist, B. Denham Jolly, was lionized at the Jamaican Canadian Association recently, for his contribution to the Jamaican Diaspora in Canada and philanthropy. He was one of ...

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 ...