www.TheCaribbeanCamera.com May 31, 2018 ISSUE NO: 28/47 TEL: 416.412.2905 FAX: 416.412.3605 BLACK CANDIDATES ‘MEET & GREET’ “MEET, GREET AND SUPPORT” SESSION - More than a dozen Black candidates contesting next Thursday’s Ontario provincial elections turned up at the Jamaican Canadian Centre in Toronto last Friday evening for a “meet, greet and support” session. The event was organized by a coalition of community groups. Twenty-two African Canadians are running in the upcoming elections. See story on Page 3 www.thecaribbeancamera.com THE CARIBBEAN CAMERA Thursday, May 31, 2018 1 T:5” NEWS NEWS Program to support black parenting skills Election Day launched in Durham grams for parents and By Lincoln DePradine is Coming. caregivers with black program to children, ages 6-11, “support and living in the Durham Election Day is June 7, 2018. Aenhance black area. “The programs Polls are open from 9:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. ET / parenting skills” has recognize the diver- 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. CT. been launched for fami- sity and strength that lies in Whitby, Ajax and exist within the black To vote in this election, you must be: Pickering. community and aim to • 18 years of age or older on June 7, 2018; and The program which empower and support Debbie Miles Senior • a Canadian citizen; and is funded through the parents,’’ Miles-Senior • a resident of Ontario. Ontario Black Youth explained. “The project will T:6.25” Action Plan (BYAP) will Side by Side Access provide support and To find out where you vote, visitelections.on.ca , check your receive $30,000 over Services, in partnership services to parents Voter Information Card or call us at 1.888.668.8683 four years and is being with the John How- and children impacted by separation and/or (TTY: 1.888.292.2312). administered by Side by ard Society, which is Side Access Services. a non-profit organiza- divorce. Services include “We are very excit- supervised communi- Each voting location will have magnifiers, Braille ballot tion, was successful in ed to be part of creating ty visits, therapeutic templates and other tools to help you vote. applying last year for the change in our com- BYAP funding for the access, in-home support, munity,’’ said Debbie and yearly workshops Don’t forget to bring your ID and Voter Information Card newly launched project Miles-Senior, Director in Regional municipality focusing on co-parent- when you go to vote. of Side by Side Access of Durham. ing and the importance Services. “This four-year “The project will of fathers in the family commitment of $75,000 support and enhance structure.’’ per year, for a total or black parenting skills The program in $300,000, represents a through recognizing Durham is free for serious commitment to the unique challenges participants who can re- Durham’s black commu- that black parents and ceive more information For more information, visit elections.on.ca, email us at [email protected] nity.’’ by visiting the website or call 1.888.668.8683 (TTY: 1.888.292.2312). caregivers face due to Disponible en français Miles-Senior said the effects of anti-black www.sidebysideaccess. the organization offers racism,’’ said Miles-Se- ca; or by calling 416 518- culturally based pro- nior. 1569. 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It’s his first are ways that each an Centre last Friday time seeking elected party might appeal to evening to "meet, greet political office. different members of and support " Black Of the 22 African the community,’’ said candidates in the June Canadians running in Morgan. 7 provincial elections in the upcoming election, “I hope, those who Ontario. no fewer than 13 are are not here tonight will Twenty-one can- NDP candidates and six ensure that their fami- didates were invited to are Liberals. There is lies and friends get out the event but just over Dwayne Morgan one Progressive Con- and vote, ’’ he added. a dozen were present. servative candidate, one A few of them, includ- was a great idea,’’ said from the Green Party ing two government Dwayne Morgan, the and one Independent. ministers, are seeking New Democratic Party Andrea Hor- re-election. (NDP) candidate for wath’s NDP and The event which Scarborough North. the Doug Ford–led was organized by a “I don’t think that Progressive Conser- coalition of communi- this many members vative party are trying ty groups provided an from our community to unseat the Liberal opportunity for people have ever had their Party, which has been in the Black community names on the ballot in in office for 15 years. to meet many of the Ontario before. So, I Liberal Party candidates " in person," hope that this helps to leader and Premier, said a representative of inspire people to get Kathleen Wynne, one of the groups. more involved,’’ he told succeeded Dalton Mc- “I thought that The Caribbean Camera. Guinty, who stepped the meet and greet Morgan, 43, is a down in 2013 after Adaoma Patterson re-elected as President of the JCA Adaoma Patterson, an the JCA's Board of Directors was adviser with the strategic Natalie Johnson (Director at large planning team in the Human -Youth Portfolio). Services Department in the The following are the new offi- Region of Peel, has been cers elected to the Board: re-elected President of Jodeika Williams - (Execu- the Jamaican Canadian tive Secretary) Association (JCA) for a David Betty - ( Treasurer) second term. Janet Lewis - (Director of Patterson has served as Fundraising) president of the JCA since The Jamaican Canadi- 2016. an Association is a social Also re-elect- organization that was ed last week for established in Toronto in a second term to Adaoma Patterson 1962. www.thecaribbeancamera.com THE CARIBBEAN CAMERA Thursday, May 31, 2018 3 NEWS Former boxing champion says he is now in the ‘biggest fight’ of his life Trinidad-born Camera in an interview Sookham who is running Fitzroy Vanderpool this week. as an independent. now calls himself the Vandepool who Sookram is a social “people’s champ.” runs a boxing gym in activist and founder and The former super Kitchener, says he is well president of the Active welterweight champion received when he knocks Vision Charity Associ- of the world has hung on doors in his riding. ation which provides up his boxing gloves but “ When I introduce books and school sup- says he is “ fighting for myself, people instant- plies to Guyanese youth. the people” as the NDP ly recognize my name He is reported to be candidate in June 7 and they generally seem “ busy on the campaign provincial elections in pleased to meet me.” Narine Sookram trail.” the newly created riding Vanderpool who Buoyed by the news There are six other of Kitchener South- Hes- is well known in the that his party is ahead in candidates running in peler. Kitchener area where the most recent public Kitchener South-Hes- “And it’s the biggest he grew up, is one of opinion polls. Vander- peler. They are Surekha fight of my life.” Canada’s most decorat- pool said he is looking Shenoy (Liberal), a “However, my ed professional boxing forward to Canada’s first former financial services campaign is going great,” champions, holding six executive and past chair CR-Share Ad-Indra+Justin_CR-Share Ad-Indra+Justin 12/21/17 4:58universal PM Page pharmacare1 he told the Caribbean title belts. program under an NDP Fitzroy Vanderpool of the Cambridge Memo- rial Hospital Foundation, government headed by Hydro One back into Amy Fee (Progressive Andrea Howarth. public hands. 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