Flag raising for Jamaican independence anniversary
Monday 6 August The Jamaica Ottawa Community Association (JOCA) marked the country’s 56th independence day anniversary with a Jamaican flag raising ceremony at City Hall last Monday. The theme for…
Letter from the Editor: February 2018
Good morning folks February is Black History Month and Black Ottawa Scene joins our African Canadian brothers and sisters in celebrating this pivotal event in our annual social calendar. In…
MPP Yasir Naqvi honours Black Ottawa leaders with OC150 award
MPP Yasir Naqvi addresses the award recipients Source: Yasir Naqvi Saturday 2 December Ottawa Centre…
Paul Harris appointed Justice of the Peace
Monday 20 November Ottawa’s First Black Justice of the Peace by Ewart Walters The Nation’s Capital has got its first Black Justice of the Peace. Ottawa’s Paul Harris was sashed and sworn…
Grand opening for Cultural Arts Studio of Afro-Caribbean Dance
Saturday 9 September All roads in Ottawa appeared to lead to lead to 40 Colonnade Road last Saturday as just about everybody who was anybody headed for…
Thanksgiving service marks Jamaica’s 55th independence anniversary
Saturday 6 August Ottawa’s Jamaican community celebrated the 55th anniversary of their country’s independence with a service of thanksgiving at the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Benjamin Avenue. Among the…
Letter from the Editor: August 2017
Good morning all Hope you are all making the most of this glorious summer weather. Better enjoy it while it lasts because as you well know, fall and then winter…
Herbert and Estelle Brown – Earliest Black Ottawa migrants
How ‘Pops’ and Estelle Brown started a dry cleaner and supported a new community by Olivia Bowden New immigrants to Ottawa in the decades from the 1950s to 1970s were…
Letter from the Editor – December 2016
Good morning folks Shame on you, Donald Trump for dragging the US election campaign into the gutter! Most of us here in Canada had hoped and prayed that once the…
Ottawans urge overhaul of police oversight at public forum
October 26, 2016 SUSANA MAS Justice Michael Tulloch speaks with Suzanne Labbe during a public consultation by the Independent Police Oversight review at the Wabano Centre in Ottawa on…