TORONTO, Ontario – A new Mainstreet Technologies poll finds 54% of Torontonians believe crime in the City of Toronto is increasing, though almost half are against the controversial practice of ‘carding’. With 2,320 respondents, the poll has a margin of ...
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ONTARIO, Canada, CMC – A judge in a Canadian court says he cannot determine whether Paul Martin, a schoolteacher, slashed his wife’s throat while on vacation in Jamaica in 2010, or whether she attacked him first and ended up injured. ...
Read More »Community Agencies Bring Holiday Cheer To Clients
Photo above is of some seniors having fun at MAPP for Seniors Caribbean Program Christmas party. Photo by Eddie Grant. By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Two community agencies in Toronto – Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention ...
Read More »Mandatory Inquests Demanded By ACLC
Photo above is of (left-right): Anthony Morgan, Paul Chapman, Dr. Akua Benjamin, and Roger-Love. Photo by Lincoln Depradine. By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer The Ontario government should make it mandatory for an inquest to be conducted anytime a Black ...
Read More »Dirty Energy Reliance Undercuts U.S., Canada Rhetoric At Climate Talks
Photo above: Young protesters at the U.N. climate talks in Lima, Peru highlight out-of-touch North American energy policies. Photo credit: Adopt a Negotiator. By Leehi Yona North American Correspondent LIMA, Peru (IPS) – While U.S. and Canadian officials delivered speeches about ...
Read More »Canadians Vastly Underestimate Wealth Gap: Landmark Survey
OTTAWA, Ontario — Canadians vastly underestimate the wealth gap in Canada and want a much more balanced distribution. This is the key finding in the first-ever survey to ask Canadians what they think the wealth distribution is and what they ...
Read More »Freedom Walk To Celebrate Mandela’s Ideals
Photo above: Members of the Committee (L-R): Tam Goossen, Brian Litvin, Zeib Jeeva, Michael Kerr (back, partly hidden), Jonathan HamiltonDiabo, Harold Brathwaite, Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, Nyameko Goso, Ramie Veerappan, Abdulsultan Madhani, Lloyd McKell, Ron Kaplansky, Jason Kandankery, Hon. Jean Augustine, Ainsworth Morgan, ...
Read More »US Expert To Audit Police And Community Engagement Review Recommendations
Photo above: Dr. Phillip Goff (left), co-founder and president of the Center for Policing Equity based at the University of California, Los Angeles and Deputy Chief Peter Sloly at a meeting at City Hall in Toronto on December 2, 2014. Photo ...
Read More »Michaëlle Jean Appointed Secretary General Of The International Francophone Organization
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Haitian-born former Governor General of Canada, Michaëlle Jean, has been appointed as the new secretary general of the International Francophone Organization (OIF). She replaces Abdou Diouf and became the first woman to head the organization. ...
Read More »Protesters Focus On Policing In Toronto Too
By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – A protest held outside the U.S. consulate in Toronto last week to show solidary for the family of black teenager, 18-year-old Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of the ...
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