Toronto “Super Agent” Jay Brijpaul wowed real estate professionals from across North America when he spoke to them on selling real estate in today’s market at the platinum Elite Money Maker super conference held in Arlington, Virginia from Feb 15th to Feb 17th . The Guyana-born Brijpaul, one of North America’s top performing realtors, was […]
By Gerald Paul William Hubbard was Toronto’s first Black – and first visible minority – councillor, but he saw himself first as an able and respected municipal politician. Hubbard made history as the first Black elected to public office in any major Canadian City, as Col. John Prince, a leading member of Ontario’s Legislative Council […]
By Gerald V. Paul A black York Police officer is being investigated for not properly reporting racial slurs hurled at him while breaking up a party in 2011. Among the taunts faced by Officer Damien Muirhead is one in which someone at the party said, “I would love to see that guy hanging from a […]
By Gerald V. Paul Dwight Drummond. Rings a bell, like excellent TV personality? Well, his success is thanks in part to Lance Williams and his precious work in the community with our beloved young people, be it Jane and Finch or Malvern, who worked with the television reporter as a youth. Williams, who has been […]
By Jasminee Sahoye His hard work as a poet, speaker and social entrepreneur is earning him more respect as a young black kid who grew up in Scarborough to immigrant parents. Now Dwayne Morgan will be joining some big names such as former CTV anchor Christine Bentley, the four current members of the Barenaked Ladies […]
By Herman Silochan The audience listened in silence, rapt with attention, as Brian MacFarlane exploded with vehemence against string beads, skimpy bikinis and feathers, “This is what carnival has descended into, a cultural void, where are the George Baileys, the Stephen Harts and the Wayne Berkeleys, the Peter Minshalls of this world? Men who gave […]
By Jean Hodgkinson The Amazon is caught between two destructive forces and their combined effects threaten to flip its ecosystems from forest to savannah -Carlos Rittl Brazil’s Amazon River “initially bore various names after its discovery in 1500,” relates the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. The hemisphere’s mightiest river “was finally called Amazon after […]
By Jasminee Sahoye As Black History month celebrations come to an end and many African Canadians are given kudos for their contributions, there are still some who are quietly working behind the scenes and making a difference in the lives of young black men and women. One notable individual in this pursuit is Gwyneth Matthew-Chapman, […]
By Gerald V. Paul “One of the reasons we founded the Ontario Black History Society is because Black children from the islands, from the United States, from Africa have been told they have no heritage here. …they will know that their Black ancestors who came from Africa and who came to Canada and the United […]
Rosalind G. Brewer is president and CEO of Sam’s Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Walmart), with more than 600 locations nationwide. Rosalind joined Sam’s Club in February 2012, bringing a wealth of talent to the members-only warehouse operating segment that serves the needs of individual and small-business members. Rosalind joined Walmart in 2006 […]
