Chambi Chachage joins Institute of African Studies
Assistant Professor Degrees: BSocSci/BA-Honors (Cape Town), MSc (Edinburgh), AM/PhD (Harvard) Email: [email protected] Chambi is an assistant professor of African Studies who joins the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University...
Older workers struggle to find jobs
‘Discouraged’: Despite labour shortage, it’s tough to get a job if you’re 55 or older ByErica Alini Global News September 29, 2021 There were more than 800,000 open jobs in Canada in July,...
Canada needs to do better for Black refugees and immigrants
Black refugees from Africa still face barriers to integration and long processing times. In 1951, Canada did not sign the newly adopted UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees....
Toronto votes to rename Dundas Street
Vote follows push to scrap name due to Henry Dundas’s connection to slave trade Muriel Draaisma · CBC News · Jul 14, 2021 Toronto city council has voted in favour of renaming Dundas Street in...
Barnett appointed CARICOM Secretary General
Photo credit: CARICOM. CARICOM Appoints First Female Secretary-General August 17, 2021 GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Tuesday, August 17, 2021) — Dr Carla Barnett, a Belize-born economist, was installed, yesterday, as the new —...
Tcheuyap named U of T’s head of international student experience
(Photo by Johnny Guatto) Alexie Tcheuyap, a professor of French whose scholarship focuses on African literary, cinema and media studies, has been appointed the University of Toronto’s associate vice-president and...
Montreal man sentenced to 18 years for buying African girl to use as sex slave
Sylvain Villemaire has been sentenced to 18 years in prison (photo: Facebook) MONTREAL — A Montreal man convicted of buying an eight-year-old girl in Africa and bringing her back to...
Standing Tall…Black Women’s Triumph
A celebratory and enlightening workshop for and about Black women By Vive Akugha Sunday 27 June, 2021 As part of its continuing public education series, the Afro-Canadian Caribbean Association (ACCA)...
Community program brings youth, artists, police together
Overbrook community program bringing in youth, local artists, police to counter hate crime The program will get youth thinking about the impacts of discrimination and hate crime. by Taylor Blewett...
Elmi appointed to Ontario Court of Justice
Justice of the Peace Mahamud Hussein Elmi was a police officer and civilian member with the Ottawa Police Service for 18 years. He was the founding executive director of the Somali...