The Windsor Black community is feels “insulted” on hearing the news that to Sergeant Kent Rice will be the president of the Windsor Police Association (WPA). In 2015, Rice was demoted for 18 months from first class, to second-class constable in September 2015 after an excessive force incident. In 2012, surveillance video showed a Black […]
Listen to this article now By Kuba Shand-Baptiste One hundred and twenty eight years ago, a little-known children’s book by a British-American author landed on the 19th-century literary scene, just in time for Christmas. It didn’t take long for it to make a splash. Within the first few years of its publication, The Adventures […]
By Lincoln DePradine Attorney Arley Gill, who is a leading advocate in the Caribbean movement that’s demanding reparations for the enslavement of Africans in the region, has said that Britain’s King Charles must do more than express sorrow over slavery. Reparations payment, “ultimately, is what we want,’’ Gill said in an interview with the BBC. […]
Last Sunday the Islamic Society of Markham (ISM) said that the attack on the Jam’e Mosque was hate-motivated. The ISM reported that a man came to the mosque on Denison Street and upon entering, apparently tore a copy of the Qur’an while directing racist and Islamophobic rants toward worshippers. He then attempted to run […]
The Calgary police officer who slammed a handcuffed Black woman head first on the ground should have gone to jail, a judge has ruled in overturning the constable’s 30-day sentence that he served at home. “The trial judge imposed a 30-day conditional sentence with minimal conditions and palpable lenience,” wrote Court of King’s Bench Justice […]
Stakeholders have welcomed Erla Christopher’s appointment as TT’s new Commissioner of Police and the first woman in the country’s history to fill the seat of top cop. But they warn that she will have some tough times ahead in not only attempting to rebrand the image of the Police Service but in minimising the fear […]
Colombia, ELN rebels renew peace talks ELN official says two sides took ‘first steps’ towards a temporary ceasefire as negotiations in Mexico City conclude. Colombia’s government and the left-wing National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group have hailed progress in their efforts to end decades of armed conflict in the South American nation, as a second […]
By Rock Hermon Hackshaw When I heard about the Memphis policemen who beat to death Tyre Nichols, a young black male, over a couple traffic infractions, a popular nineteen-seventies pop-song with this refrain came to my mind: “And another one gone, and another one done, another one bites the dust”. Look, police-killings are a regular […]
The Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) is calling on the Ontario Solicitor General to undertake a full investigation into the “secret appointment” and installation of Superintendent Rick Shank as head of the Professional Standards Branch of the Toronto Police Service. A press release issued by BADC noted that Shank’s appointment “occurred over two years ago […]
The Federal Government has announced funding of $1.4 million over five years as of April 1, 2021, to Legal Aid Ontario to prepare Impact of Race and Culture Assessments (IRCAs) reports for Black persons and members of other racialized minority groups in Ontario. IRCAs are pre-sentencing reports that help sentencing judges to better understand the […]
