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...
TORONTO: Online applications are now open to prospective students for the first cohort of the MD programme at Toronto Metropolitan University’s (TMU’s) new School of Medicine, which will be situated in Brampton, Ontario, a diverse and rapidly...
TORONTO: When the curtain closed on the inaugural Reggae North Music Awards (RNMA), many reggae artistes and lovers of the music left the Rose Theatre in Brampton, Ontario, thinking that they were a part of the beginning of something special. Mark...
Jamaica’s minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, last week provided Jamaican Canadians in the greater Toronto and Hamilton area with an update of national developments. Speaking at a diaspora town hall on...
TORONTO: A medical doctor, who is the new chairperson of the women’s committee of the Jamaican Canadian Association, has urged seniors to share their stories with generations to ensure that their wisdom, lessons of their lives, and “strength of...
An international centre for contemporary arts, culture and ideas in Toronto recently celebrated the 105th birthday of Louise Bennett-Coverley, Jamaica’s culture icon. Titled “Celebrating Miss Lou: A Life of Poetry, Music, and Love,” the event...
TORONTO: When 70 Black and Caribbean students start their post-secondary education this year, they will receive help with their tuition costs through scholarships totalling over CAD$80,000. Two organisations, the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA...
Educator Gary Stewart’s travel to 23 countries over the past year has taught him to be grateful for life – “the presence of mind, self and body” and for the sacrifices his ancestors made. A vice principal with the Toronto District School Board (...
TORONTO: A Jamaican-Canadian police superintendent, who in May faced a tribunal hearing in Toronto for charges under the Police Services Act, has been demoted to the rank of inspector for two years. In September 2023, Supt Stacy Clarke pleaded...
TORONTO: When hundreds gathered at Union Station – Canada’s busiest, multi-modal passenger transportation hub – on the eve of Emancipation Day for the 11th annual Emancipation Day Underground Freedom Train Ride, they had no idea that the late...
TORONTO: A play set at the time a family is about to celebrate Jamaica’s Independence in Toronto’s Little Jamaica will have its world première at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, one of the largest theatre stages in Canada. “ Get That Hope” by...
TORONTO: The federal government will recognise the Trelawny Town Maroons in a ceremony at the Citadel Fortress in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on August 1, Emancipation Day. The Trelawny Maroons were deported from Jamaica to Nova Scotia in 1796 in the...
TORONTO: A member of the JamaicanCanadian community has been appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honours. It recognises people across all sectors of society who have made extraordinary and sustained contributions to the...
TORONTO: Several organisations and businesses in Canada have come together to host a Hurricane Beryl Relief Benefit Concert in Toronto to help restoration efforts in Jamaica in the aftermath of the latest hurricane. The Global Jamaica Diaspora...
TORONTO: Some Jamaican and international students who graduated from colleges and university in southern Ontario recently were fêted for their achievement in Hamilton, Ontario. The first graduation dinner, which was held at the Hamilton Church of...
TORONTO: Jamaican parents Tamalia Smith and Andrew Kennedy are proud of, and amazed at their son’s performance in a game that has its genesis in West Africa and teaches more than just mathematics. Kameron Kennedy, nine, of Pelmo Park Public School...
TORONTO: When Jaidyn Parkes graduates from Toronto Metropolitan University with a degree in social work on Tuesday, June 11, she does so with thoughts of how much her father would have wanted to be there to cheer her on. “He was supposed to be, he...
TORONTO: A cultural hub for the black community in Toronto has received $11.34 million from the federal government enabling it to realise a dream project to build its new centre. The City of Toronto is contributing $2.78 million, for a joint...
