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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 ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Friday July 29, 2022) — Jamaican-Canadian communities in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Hamilton and Niagara, will host a series of events, to mark Jamaica’s 60th Anniversary of Independence, starting July 31 and culminating on October 2022. This ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Editor It wasn’t until 2017 that award-winning stage and screen actor, writer, producer, and director, Ngozi Paul, found out that August 1 was Emancipation Day. Since then, she has committed herself to engaging Canadians to know ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) — With summer entertainment on the agenda, major cultural festivals and outdoor events are a big attraction for the province’s Black community, which is why the Black Scientists’ Task Force on Vaccine Equity (BSTF) ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Editor TORONTO, Ontario (Tuesday, July 19, 2022) — Dr. Mavis Elaine Burke, the founder of the Toronto-based Project for Advancement of Childhood Education (Canada) — P.A.C.E. Canada — died, peacefully, earlier this month, at the age ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Wednesday July 13, 2022) — Despite two years of virtual events, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 13th Annual University of the West Indies Toronto Benefit Awards gala was a sold-out, in-person affair that was held at The ...

TORONTO, Ontario (Tuesday, July 12, 2022) — In high school, Tenzin Choephel knew he wanted to be an Emergency Services provider. “It was either policing or firefighting,” he said. Choephel, who speaks four languages, eventually settled for a law enforcement ...