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TORONTO, Ontario February 6, 2020 — Over 170 Barbadians were employed last year, under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Program (SAWP) in Canada, and two new employers joined the program, helping to augment the previous year’s figures. Barbados is currently working ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist To date, no consensus has been reached by historians, regarding Marie-Joseph Angelique’s actual guilt, or innocence. On the morning of June 21, 1734, Angelique was in a chamber with a priest, a judge, a physician, ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Black people have a lengthy and noteworthy history of great kings, queens and warriors, nevertheless, in spite of all that, we still ended up being enslaved. A simple reason proffered for our finding ourselves in ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Thanks to airport racism, I am now bereft of my joy of flying. Previously, I regarded air travel as a symbol of freedom, as I was airborne almost every other month. Being at airports was ...

TORONTO, Ontario January 20, 2020 — Cameron Bailey, the Artistic Director and co-Head of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), is one of six, who will be honoured by the Ontario Black History Society (OBHS), at its annual Black History ...

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 ...