Monthly Archives: August 2012
Carnival always at risk
By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Senior Editor
There have always been attempts by people to wrest control of the Toronto carnival from whoever was running it.
Back when it was run by the Caribbean C
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The struggle for workers’ rights continues to this day
The marshals had their hands full pulling together the 3,000 workers who converged on Market Square in London, Ontario on September 3, 1894.
It was the first nationally recognized Labour Day in Canada, an
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Gov’t action welcome
It is indeed unfortunate that it had to take ‘the worst mass shooting in Toronto’s history’ to get provincial politicians seriously focused enough to take action on a report on how to stem such violence – a report that had
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Strong Guyana rugby side no match for Canada, the U.S.
Coming into last weekend’s North America Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) championship in Ottawa, Guyana reigned supreme, winning the men’s Sevens tournament six straight years.
There was much at stake in this
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T & T goalkeeper is MVP at local netball contest
National team manager, Mary Webb, was looking for an opponent to help Canada prepare for the Americas Federation of Netball Associations’ (AFNA) championship last July when she made the call to the University of Trinidad & T
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Gov’t response to youth violence report a first step
The Ontario Government has finally responded to the recommendations of the “The Review of the Roots of Youth Violence” report it asked former Chief Justice, Roy McMurtry, and former Speaker of the Legislature, Dr. Alvin Curlin
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A brief guide for visitors to Toronto
Visiting from the Caribbean? Welcome to Toronto. You have chosen the city with the world’s most diverse population of immigrants, apparently even more diverse than New York City.
We are growing toward three million
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High-achieving sisters Kareena and Kristal Elliston role models for youth
Kareena and Kristal Elliston are bright, articulate, confident, creative, motivated and friendly young women. Obviously, these are the qualities that endeared Kristal to American-born commercial litigator, Roy Prather III. The cou
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Trey Anthony signs contract with top licensing company
Canadian comedian and playwright Trey Anthony is set to explode on the American market.
The first Black Canadian woman to write and produce a television show for a major prime time Canadian station recently signed a d
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T & T ‘has not fulfilled promise of independence’
Trinidad & Tobago has yet to totally fulfill the promise of independence or the vision of its founding father, the late Dr. Eric Williams, says Erica Williams-Connell, the daughter of the twin-island republic’s first prime m
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