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THE CARIBBEAN CAMERA I FOCUSED... ON YOUR NEWS www.TheCaribbeanCamera.com OCTOBER 29, 2020 I ISSUE NO: 31/20 I TEL: 416.412.2905 I FAX: 416.412.3605 MARCI WINS IN TORONTO CENTRE Marci Ien celebrates her election victory with daughter, Blaize, and son, Dash. See story on Page 3 Calls for alternatives Blanchet's defemce to police response of the N-word BBPA to launch to mental health Trini farm workers condemned mentorship program issues stuck in Canada PAGE 2 PAGE 4 PAGE 5 PAGE 9 www.TheCaribbeanCamera.com OCT. 29, 2020 1 THE CARIBBEAN CAMERA I FOCUSED... ON YOUR NEWS NEWS Blanchet’s defence of N-word used by professor condemned by NDP and the Green Party OTTAWA - Federal those that would choose sharing knowledge O’Toole told reporters political parties are to defend it, what they should not be Thursday. “There are condemning the are really defending considered a racial works of literature that Bloc Québécois for is the prerogative attack in the context of harken back to a time defending the academic to uphold white a classroom where there was terrible use of the N-word. supremacy.” Asked by reporters treatment of Black New Democrat At a news to weigh into the Canadians and Black Matthew Green said conference on debate, Conservative people, and so we have academic freedom Thursday, Bloc Leader Erin O’Toole to be conscious.” cannot be used to justify Québécois Leader didn’t condemn the Green said people a racial slur that still Yves-François use of the N-word in often use the guise of hurts many, including Blanchet supported an academia. But he said freedom of speech to himself, a Black MP. academic’s right to use universities need to defend slurs, but he “For someone controversial words. find a balance when said there must be a who has had that word Blanchet’s grappling with offensive “reasonable limit.” hurled against them comments came content. Like the Bloc, political from the time I was after the University Yves-François Blanchet “The touchstone parties that create nine years old to now of Ottawa suspended Duval had used the a deep rift on and off- has to be respect, in a “false dilemma” as a politician, that is a part-time professor N-word during an campus. any context, including between academic dehumanizing word,” Verushka Lieutenant- art and gender class. Blanchet said that the university context,” Turn to PAGE 17 Green said. “It is a Duval in September. The professor has form of racial violence A student complained apologized, but her against people. And for that Lieutenant- suspension has caused Family hires lawyer after Ottawa man fell to his death during police raid OTTAWA - The shortly after police family of Anthony Aust, officers breached the the 23-year-old man door of the apartment, who fell to his death the man fell from the after a police raid at his window to the ground apartment on October below. 7 last , has hired an He was pronounced A Virtual Launch of Ottawa lawyer to dead on the scene. represent them in their In a home security My Political search for answers. video, Ottawa police The lawyer, tactical officers can be Anthony Aust Lawrence Greenspon, seen first forcing the Journey said he’s fact-gathering front door open, then brother’s life. “With so many A Memoir by The Most Honourable P.J. Patterson while the Special yelling, “Police! Don’t Investigations Unit move,” before tossing officers, why wasn’t Former Prime Minister of Jamaica (SIU) , the province’s in a flash grenade one able to try and stop civilian police that filled the front him from opening his PATTERSON P.J. PATTERSON A conversation with Mr. Patterson My Political Journey: Jamaica’s Sixth Prime window and jumping P.J. Patterson, ON, OCC, PC, QC, now “This invaluable memoir is a fascinating, generous-hearted, at times funny, skilfully retired, was Jamaica’s sixth and longest- written insider’s view from the trenches of Jamaica’s politics. It covers the struggle Minister is P.J. Patterson’s account of his serving prime minister from 1992 to 2006. time as an active and successful participant watchdog, continues entryway with light and from colonialism to federation to Jamaican independence, and growing national In addition to his lifelong political service, self-realization. It’s as much the story of a young country’s possibilities as it is of the in the political and social development of he has had an equally distinguished legal extraordinary life of one man, a son of rural Jamaica. A devoted regionalist and social Jamaica and the Caribbean from the mid- career and is the recipient of numerous democrat with unfailing faith in his people, P.J. Patterson’s book reflects a hands-on, 1950s well intoabout the early 2000s. He was a new vision for a academic and international honours. On his practical spirit who believes in loyalty to ideals, flexibility in the face of change, and widely regarded as a master political out? “ he asked. retirement from politics, he founded introspection. A shrewd judge of national temperature and temperament, as strategist and universally acknowledged as an astute negotiator. HeisConsults, an international consulting Jamaica’s greatest political organizer he revisits the rough and tumble of rural its probe into the smoke. The video then Jamaica is an enigma: its global impact firm, and has remained active in public life campaigns, euphoric national victories and shattering defeats. As a lawyer, he reflects in the national, regional and international belies its population and geographical size. on the power of legislature to change people’s lives. In politics there are always MY POLITICAL JOURNEY This story of one of its most exceptional arenas. disappointments and personal hurts; in sharing these, P.J. Patterson exhibits an citizens is an enlighteningpost-pandemic revelation of the Caribbean honesty, generosity of spirit, and sense of humour about political opponents and island’s political and cultural narrative. His brother was on allies alike. He shares insight about history, historic figures and puzzling national Jamaica’s Sixth Prime Minister Patterson was born in 1935, the dawn of a events, the trade union movement, the role of our music, and the extraordinary new era in the development of Jamaica and circumstances of the captures at least eight personal and public life of the only person to serve three consecutive terms as the Caribbean. A previously disenfranchised Jamaica’s prime minister. It is a riveting account of Jamaica’s living history. population would gain a voice through Magnificent! This book matters.” universal adult suffrage and have a say in —Rachel Manley, author of In My Father’s Shade the direction of the nation’s affairs. Within bail at the time of this a few decades, an independent nation would emerge to make a significant impact on the “In this book P.J. Patterson’s writing itself is another dimension of his respectful man’s death. officers coming into global landscape. Patterson is both a adherence to the Jamaican people. He is attractive and not intimidating in his product of this new Jamaica and one of its expressiveness, always making the language appropriate and contributory to the architects, and his is a compelling and mood of his narrative. There is the crystal clarity with which he clings to the identities intimate account of a dramatic era for the of his childhood friends and neighbours and recalls the tiny but potent districts of his young nation. Monday, November 2, 2020 death. western Jamaica; the lyricism with which he sings the natural beauty of the Mona P.J. Patterson led his country with campus, where he found the love of his life and learned the beauty of academic distinction, implementing policies and “You have a violent, the apartment, all with rigour; the unimpeachably humane logic that informs the positions he takes as he programmes to foster social renewal and ascends with integrity the tiers of responsibility.” the development of a modern Jamaica that —Professor Emeritus Keith Ellis, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of was prepared to face the challenges of the Toronto new millennium.5:30 Throughout his career in pm - 6:30 pm EST the People’s National Party, he gained He was facing international respect through the pivotal roles he played in the advancement of the sudden death of a loved their guns drawn. POLITICAL causes of the developing countries of the world. My Political Journey recounts his ISBN 978-976-640-701-8 performance at the national, regional and MY global levels and is a fascinating record of a eleven. charges after The University of the West Indies Press nation’s postcolonial growth. Cover photograph © Maria LaYacona Jamaica • Barbados • Trinidad and Tobago www.uwipress.com JOURNEY one and there’s all Raymond Aust, Jacket design by Robert Harris Printed in the United States of America Jamaica’s Sixth Prime Minister kinds of questions that brother of the dead allegedly being caught need to be asked and man, said he (his dead with drugs and a gun answered. Hopefully brother) was the only during a traffic stop last some of those questions target of the raid.. January. Register for the Virtual Broadcast will be answered with “Yet the police felt The SIU said on my-political-journey.eventbrite.ca the investigation by the it was necessary to send Friday that that nine SIU, but I’m not overly a unit and surround the officers who were confident that’s going building as well?” designated as witness to be the case,” said He said he wants to officers have been Greenspon.