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OTTAWA, Ontario September 4, 2019 — Law enforcement veteran, Peter Sloly, a former Toronto Deputy Chief of Police — and Partner at Deloitte, where he was the national “Security and Justice” leader — been hired as the new Chief for the Ottawa ...

NASSAU, Bahamas, September 4, 2019 (CMC) – Canada says it will provide CDN$500,000 in emergency assistance to The Bahamas, as the country comes to grip with the devastation caused by Hurricane Dorian. Dorian, considered one of the most destructive storms ...

By Jen Gilbert Guest Writer In time for back-to-school 2019, the Ontario government released a revised health and physical education curriculum. Commentators have noted that despite Premier Doug Ford having stressed the need for an overhaul, the new curriculum is ...

By Carl James Guest Writer Recent reports of the schooling experiences of Black students in elementary, middle and high school in Toronto tell a story of negligence and disregard. This disregard includes a lack of access to appropriate reading materials ...

By Mark Winfield Guest Writer The famous physicist Sir Issac Newton’s first law of motion states that objects in motion will continue in motion at the same speed and direction, unless some external force is applied to change their trajectory. ...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, August 13, 2019 (CMC) – The Antigua and Barbuda government, disclosed, on Monday, that Canada is to send a team to member countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) to collect biometrics from ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, Canada August 13, 2019 (CMC) – Canada’s immigration agency says it has launched over 800 projects, across the country, to boost settlement and integration of Caribbean and other new immigrants. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced it ...

By Michael Van Cooten Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario August 11, 2019 — Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP), Mitzie Hunter, is expected to formally announce her intention to compete for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party. According to a person, whom ...

TORONTO, Canada, August 7, 2019 (CMC) – The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) announced, today, that it will honour Trinidad and Tobago-born storyteller, Rita Cox, with its Lifetime Achievement Award later this month. It said that Cox, who chronicled the ...

TORONTO, Ontario August 6, 2019 — Last Thursday, August 1, to commemorate the 185th anniversary of Emancipation Day, Toronto Mayor, John Tory, proclaimed the entire month of August as “Emancipation Month”. “By recognizing Emancipation Day on August 1 and the ...