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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By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Senior Editor Someone said to me recently that many of the local carnival bandleaders are under the impression that the Festival Management Committee (FMC) is working for them. T
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By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Senior Editor There were a lot fewer volunteers at this year’s carnival than in previous years. At least, that is what I have been told.   That might be among the re
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By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Senior Editor I have always insisted that, regardless of who ran the carnival festival, the parade was always a hit; as spectacular and as magnificent as ever.    
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By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Senior Editor Did you hear the one about the organizers of the carnival festival in Toronto this Saturday planning to search the bags of people who purchase tickets to sit in the
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By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Senior Editor Premier Dalton McGuinty has been saying all the right things following the spate of shootings in Toronto last week, beginning with the dreadful events of last week
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Two young people with their whole lives ahead of them – and a lot of potential – were murdered earlier this week because they were in the wrong place at the wrong…     No, hell no. They were in the right p
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By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Senior Editor In another two weeks, some one-million people will converge on Lakeshore Boulevard for the annual Caribbean-styled carnival which has become a staple of this cityâ€
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When Toronto District School Board trustees voted some four years ago to approve an Africentric alternative school, it was greeted by many in our community as a major accomplishment and by others as the culmination of some 40 year
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By ARNOLD A. AUGUSTE, Publisher/Senior Editor Thando Hyman-Aman, the outgoing principal of the Africentric Alternative School, is an intelligent, educated, articulate and very accomplished young woman. So, donâ
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