Canada’s national unemployment rate is at a tolerable 7.2 per cent and, as of March, 82,000 mostly full-time jobs have been created, according to Statistics Canada. The Bank of Canada is still holding its interest rate at one pe
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Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first legitimate, democratically-elected President on May 10, 1994, after more than three centuries of White minority misrule.   Born Nkosi Rolihlala Dalibhunga Mandela on July 18, 1
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It is noteworthy that within one organization built by Black people, the International Services African Bureau, that after WWII, almost every Black country that achieved independence, be it in Africa or in the Caribbean, had a lea
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In this old world we are faced with many conundrums yet, in spite of that reality, or more likely because of it, we like our dichotomies.   We have a federal government that has made a point of its law-and-order stance;
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Danielle Smith, leader of Alberta’s upstart Wildrose Alliance party which surprised pundits by taking a beating in recent election polls, had billed her party’s campaign to unseat the Progressive Conservatives as “a battle b
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The negotiations between the minority Liberal government – the first minority government in the province in 26 years – and the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) over the first budget since provincial elections last fall have
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The big losers when provincial politicians vote on the Liberal budget next Tuesday would be Tim Hudak’s Conservatives. Almost as soon as Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan read the budget three weeks ago, Hudak declared that
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Unless you turned 54 last Saturday, you have missed out on being able to apply for Old Age Security (OAS) at age 65. Under a plan announced by federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty in last week’s budget, anyone now 53 and younge
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It was the 250-pound, 28-year-old George Zimmerman who pulled the trigger that killed the unarmed, 140-pound, 17-year-old African-American, Trayvon Martin, in Florida last month, but it was, at depth, Americans’ Second Amendment
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In his campaign to extend the Sheppard subway into Scarborough, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has taken to the streets lately with his SAFE (Subways Are for Everyone) campaign to ensure the optics of public support for this project. &
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