Yesterday marked Donald Moore Day across Canada. Originally from Barbados where he was born in 1891, Moore came to Canada in 1913 and was an outstanding leader and advocate for human rights and citizenship. His civic engagement would be felt for generations to come. On April 27, 1954, Moore – affectionately known as […]
The Trudeau government is reviewing the laws around mandatory minimum sentences, following the Supreme Court of Canada ruling that two federal laws from the previous Conservative government’s tough-on-crime agenda are both unconstitutional. This will bring an end to rules for minimum sentences for specific drug crime convictions and limits on credit for pre-trial detention in […]
Elissa Antonio’s medical recovery fund has grown to $62, 668 and, more good news, she’s managed to stand beside her hospital bed. The ongoing fundraising is important as it goes towards her medication and other expenses and to help her daughters Brianna and Moneque as she recovers. Recovery will take eight to 10 months. What […]
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – Toni Morgan came out of Jane and Finch and graced Harvard, thanks to a crowd-funding bid that raised more than $95,000 to cover the fees for her masters of education and expenses. Now this once-homeless woman is offering her shoulders for other students out of Jane-Finch to climb on in an invitation […]
Thanks to the generosity of strangers and a caring family and friends, Elissa Antonio is in a Toronto hospital healing and doing well, relatives said, after she accidently fell off a cliff in Trinidad and Tobago. To give Antonio, 40, time to recover in peace, the family asked that the hospital not be identified after […]
Trinidad and Tobago-born Ravina Budhooram has been identified as one of the young people killed in a Jane and Sheppard car crash, where two unidentified men also lost their lives. Twenty-one-year-old Budhooram’s Facebook page says she was a student at Seneca College. “Such a beautiful person you were Ravina Budhooram. You were the light in […]
Trouble has erupted among those tasked with conducting the official inquiry into the fatal riots at Guyana’s Camp Street Prison in Georgetown. In a dispute that spilled over into Facebook, Toronto lawyer Selwyn Pieters – who is representing the police and prison services at the Commission of Inquiry into the Disturbances and Subsequent Deaths at […]
Premier Kathleen Wynne pledged to meet with Black Lives Matter activists to address racism and police violence in Toronto, stating that “We are undertaking a review of the SIU, the Special Investigations Unit. We are reviewing all of the police oversight bodies.” Wynne called on the movement to help her as they are on the […]
“It’s our nature to care. We provide quality care at affordable rates to the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding regions,” Vivienne Dickson, co-owner and CEO of A Supreme Nursing and Home Care, told Eyes on a visit to their offices. Jamaican born Dickson and her Caribbean team with an executive member serving in Bosnia, as […]
