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TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday, June 29, 2022) — The Indo-Caribbean Canadian Association (“ICCA”), earlier this month, conducted a successful “Books for Back Home Book Drive” that resulted in “a record number of donations”, which was shipped to Guyana and Trinidad and ...

By Michael L. Van Cooten Publisher & Editor BRAMPTON, Ontario (Monday, June 27, 2022) — Joyce Temple-Smith was elected as President of the United Achievers’ Club (UAC), at the organisation’s Annual General Meeting (AGM), held June 18, for a two-year ...

By Carl E. James and Vidya Shah Guest Contributors Some parents have been raising concerns about the teaching of critical race theory in public schools in the United States. Recently, these specious claims have been showing up in Canada too. School boards ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday, June 22, 2022) — Black families in Ontario are more than twice as likely as White ones, to be referred to, and investigated, by child welfare agencies, according to a new, groundbreaking report released, last Friday. Titled ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday, June 22, 2022) — The Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) has published a report, Access Obscured, which analyzed human rights applications, filed against police services in Ontario, between 2017 and 2020. The study found that almost 270 ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Thursday, June 16, 2022) — Two members of the provincial NDP Black Caucus — MPPs Jill Andrew (Toronto—St. Paul’s) and Laura Mae Lindo (Kitchener Centre) — today, chastised the findings of the Toronto Police Service’s race-based statistics on ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Friday June 16, 2022) — Toronto Police Service (TPS) Chief, James Ramer, issued an apology, yesterday, to Black, Indigenous and racialized people, who are over-represented in use-of-force incidents and strip searches. Speaking at a news conference at police ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday, June 15, 2022) — The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is requesting the public’s assistance to locate a missing woman. Tanisha McPherson, 43, was last seen on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, at 10:50 a.m., in the Leslie Street ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Editor TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday, June 15, 2022) — Educator and philanthropist, Kamala-Jean Gopie, says an award from her alma mater, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, is very special for ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Editor TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday June 15, 2022) — Queen Victoria Public School in Parkdale, Toronto, has been renamed Dr. Rita Cox-Kina Minogok Public School. In a letter to the community, dated May 26, Dr. Debbie Donsky, ...