The leadership, compassion, and commitment to service of community advocate Nehemiah ‘Miah’ Bailey, 92, will be remembered for many years to come. The beloved Jamaican-Canadian was born on October 7, 1932, in Ipswich, St Elizabeth in Jamaica, and...
TORONTO: Jamaica’s director of tourism, Donovan White, says the Jamaica Tourist Board owes a great deal of its success to the ever-expanding Canadian market. Speaking on Monday at a cocktail reception to celebrate the JTB’s 70th anniversary at...
TORONTO: Jamaican-Canadian Dr. Mary Anne Chambers has been re-elected as chancellor of the University of Guelph. She was named the university’s 10th chancellor in 2022. Dr. Rene Van Acker, interim president and vice-chancellor commended Dr....
TORONTO: Dr Frederick Edward Aldrick ‘Buddy’ McIntosh, an ear, nose and throat specialist and an alumnus of Kingston College, passed away peacefully in hospital on March 28 in Ontario, Canada. He was 88 years old. Born on February 4, 1937, he is...
TORONTO: Two Jamaican community stalwarts have recently published books – one that focuses on the education system in Ontario, the other on growing up in Jamaica in the 1960s and 1970s. Luther Brown, an educator and researcher, has written Leading...
One of Toronto’s oldest churches, the St James Cathedral (Toronto), last Sunday held for the first time a Bob Marley Mass composed by the Reverend Canon Dr Stephen Fields, vicar of the church, in observation of the International Day for the...
Andria Babbington, president of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council, is calling on Torontonians to stand firm and united in response to the United States government’s newly imposed tariffs on Canadian goods. “People are scared right now, and...
TORONTO: Dr John Carlos — the American Olympian who, at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City joined his teammate, Tommie Smith, in raising their black-gloved fists at the medal podium for the men’s 200-metre dash to signal their defiance of the...
TORONTO: The Canadian government has commemorated the national historic significance of the West Indian Domestic Scheme, 1955-1967, at a special plaque unveiling ceremony at Blackhurst Cultural Centre in Toronto. The event brought out many,...
Clovalyn Wilson is usually giving awards, so it was a different experience for her to be on the receiving end of a community award at the Peel United Cultural Partners’ 24th Black History Month concert in Brampton, Ontario, in Canada at the weekend...
Wes Hall, chairman and CEO of Kingsdale Advisors, a shareholder advisory firm, has been included in the newly launched 19-member Prime Minister’s Council on Canada-United States (US) Relations announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the...
TORONTO: The Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) awarded three individuals for remarkable contributions to community building at this year’s Black History Month celebrations held under the theme ‘Legacy and Resilience: Celebrating the Black...
Two Jamaicans – the late community advocate Louis March and Angela Robertson, executive director of the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre – are among six individuals honoured by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) with illustrated...
The reckoning with racism in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in the United States in May 2020, was also felt in Toronto, Canada. It resulted, a month later, in the establishment of ‘No Silence on Race’, a non-profit organisation...
TORONTO: The chairperson of the board of Canada’s largest public transportation system says its 2025 operating and capital budget is a massive step in the right direction for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). Jamaal Myers, who was elected the...
Jamaican-Canadian author, educator and folklorist, Tania Hernandez, also known as ‘Miss Tania Lou’, has launched a new book about Jamaica’s cultural icon, Louise Bennett-Coverley, affectionately known as ‘Miss Lou’. On a cold winter weekend...
A Jamaican-Canadian author, historian, poet and educator, who is recognised for her study of black Canadian life and her role as a mentor and academic, has been appointed to the Order of Nova Scotia – the highest honour in the province. This week,...
TORONTO: For the past 16 years, the Rhema Foodbank of Rhema Christian Ministries has been supporting families’ grocery needs on a weekly basis. During the Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons it offers pre-packaged grocery bags to families...
TORONTO: A Jamaican-Canadian philanthropist has been supporting educational, economic, and development projects in a community in Malawi for the past seven years. In 2016, Kamala-Jean Gopie was visiting Cape Town, South Africa when she met Happy,...
Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue (BAND) – a charitable organisation dedicated to supporting, documenting, and showcasing the artistic and cultural contributions of black artists and cultural workers in Canada and internationally – has published...
The endowed Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora at York University in Toronto, recently held an appreciation gathering to thank those who have supported its mission and to showcase its work from 2021 to 2023. Dr Carl James,...
TORONTO: Five individuals of Jamaican heritage were among 14 honoured at the 16th annual Viola Desmond awards and bursary ceremony organised by Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. Camara Chambers, Ashley Jane Lewis, Faith-Ann Clarke, Chelsi...
TORONTO: The 25 individuals who were appointed to the Order of Ontario for 2023 and three from previous years were invested with their insignia at an investiture ceremony at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on Monday. Among them were six...
A Jamaican-Canadian who is the second highest-ranking black woman in the Toronto Police Service (TPS) is appealing a tribunal decision to demote her. In September 2023, Stacy Clarke pleaded guilty to seven charges – three counts of breach of...
TORONTO: Her three-year term officially began on October 10, but five days later Jamaican Canadian Donette Chin-Loy Chang, an international communications leader, public affairs strategist and philanthropist, was installed as the sixth chancellor...
