Society & Culture

Tiana Reid ; is a Toronto born biracial (Black father, White mother) fourth year student at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She is also a writer for the McGill newspaper, “The McGill Daily” with her own column, “Mixed Like Me” at http://www.mcgilldaily.com/blog-mixed-like-me/ . During our interview, Tiana talks and shares […]

PodCamp Toronto 2011 is at Ryerson University in Toronto on February 26th and February 27th. It is Canada’s largest gathering of members of the new media community. PodCamp has been in Toronto since 2007. Last year, 900 people from Toronto’s new media community attended during the two-day unconference. The attendees […]

Usage based billing for the internet has been one of the hottest topics in Canadian politics this year. Over 450,000 Canadians signed a petition against the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) decision to implement usage based billing for the internet. This caused the Canadian government to threaten to overturn […]

Founded in 1972, the Harriet Tubman Community Organization Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs of the Greater Toronto Area’s diverse community. Initially the organization focused on providing programming for youth, but over the years it has expanded its services to address a broader spectrum of the […]

The Collective Of Black Artists (COBA) COBA was founded in 1993 by Junia Mason, Charmaine Headley, BaKari E. Lindsay (formerly Eddison B. Lindsay) and Mosa Neshama (formerly Kim McNeilly). They were four Black dancers fired with the raw passion to fill a void on Toronto’s arts scene by constructing a […]

If you haven’t been living under a rock in Canada over the last few weeks, you’ve been consumed with the hotly-contested debate over user-based Internet billing in Canada. At the heart of the issue, which is being fought over between the CRTC(Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) , major telecoms and […]

The “Baby Boyz Dance Group” is a group of eight diversely trained male dancers under the direction of Artistic Director and choreographer, Trevor Brown. The company incorporates many genres weaving a creative identity that is compelling, moving, athletic and explosive dedicated to the creation of original works that celebrate the […]