By Heather Aspinall Bed bugs are bloodsucking parasites that do not discriminate. They have been found in a wide range of places where people sleep – from five-star hotels, resorts and cruise ships, to dormitories, hospitals, homeless shelters and private homes, to buses, airplanes and overnight trains. And they are no longer a problem […]
Thanks to the biases of the Western international media, most members of Canada’s Black community missed an opportunity to spike their “celebration” of Black History Month with a dose of spectacular farce. The source of that unwelcome idiocy was an unenlightened official of the British Treasury who caused the following weekly “surprising #FridayFact” to be […]
Film director Sharon Lewis recalls the day when she first saw the novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, at her favourite bookstore in Los Angeles. ‘From the moment I read the first page, I knew then that I had to bring this bold and unique story of a young black teenage heroine growing up […]
Oxfam formally apologized to Haiti on Monday over the prostitution scandal rocking the aid charity, expressing its “shame” and vowing to do better as it handed over a damning internal report into the allegations. Made public earlier in the day, Oxfam’s 2011 report into the behavior of aid workers sent to Haiti following a devastating […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon Many persons in Canada may be surprised to learn that a Temporary Resident Visa (TRV) does not guarantee entry into Canada. This document, also known as a counterfoil, contained in a person ‘s passport, allows the person only to board an aircraft, But it is up to an immigration officer at a […]
