Justice Michael Tulloch will present his report of
police oversight review to community and policing stakeholders.
April 24: Hamilton, at
Sheraton Hamilton Hotel, Centre Ballroom, 116 King St. West. 6:30-8:30pm. Space
is limited. RSVP at info@policeoversightreview.ca
Stand with SAPACCY! Black Mental Health Matters. Anti-Black
Racism, SAPACCY and CAMH: An urgent Community Town Hall meeting to discuss
issues and solutions on Thursday, April 27, 6-8:30
p.m. at Scarborough Civic Centre Council Chambers, 150 Borough Drive,
Scarborough. Call African Canadian Legal Clinic at 416-214-4747/Tabono
Institute at 647-856-7774.
MEDIA RELEASE
African-Canadian Community Coalition to hold Town Hall on the lack of appropriate mental health & addictions services for African-Canadian youth at CAMH
At an urgently convened Town
Hall at Scarborough Civic Centre, a community based coalition comprised of over
thirty African-Canadian community organizations,
health and mental health
professionals, and youth, will gather to discuss growing concerns of anti-Black
racism at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and to share information
and identify options for action.
The Coalition is justifiably
concerned about:
1. The diminution of
Canada’s only public funded ethno-specific Mental Health and
Addictions program for
African-Canadian Youth at CAMH - SAPACCY (Substance
Abuse Program for African Canadian
and Caribbean Youth)
2. Over-representation of
African-Canadian clients in clinical programs at CAMH
3. The lack of leadership
and appropriate response to address anti-Black racism at CAMH, serious gaps
regarding CAMH’s clinical environment, and poor treatment
of African-Canadian clients
in CAMH’s clinical care
4. The lack of
African-Canadian representation on the Board of Trustees and Senior
Leadership at CAMH
5. Deaths and over-restraint
of African-Canadian men in the care of CAMH.
At the time of the Town
Hall, the Coalition will release a joint statement calling on CAMH, the Minister
of Health & Long Term Care, Minister of Children and Youth Services and
Minister with responsibility for Anti-racism, Toronto Central, Central, Central
West and Central East Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs), and the City
of Toronto to demonstrate a higher level of accountability to African-Canadian
taxpayers, and take immediate joint action to stabilize and expand the SAPACCY
program.
Date: Thursday, April 27,
2017
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
EST
Location: Scarborough Civic
Centre, Council Chambers
150 Borough Dr, Scarborough,
ON M1P 4N7
Lead Organizations:
African Canadian Legal
Clinic and Tabono Institute
The 6th annual Gospel Praise on Steel will take place on Saturday, April 29, doors open at
6pm, show starts at 6:45pm at Canada Christian College, 50 Gervais Drive (Don
Mills & Wynford Drive).
Featuring steelband
performances by: Nativity Steel Angels, Each One Teach One, Worship in Steel,
Gemini Pan Groove, Malvern Praise on Pan, and St. Paul’s Steel Orchestra.
Vocalists: Highest Praise
Gospel Singers. Calypsonian vocalists: Guney Cedeno, alongside Joy Lapps &
other special guest performers.
MC: Itah Sadu. Tickets:
$25(advance), $30 (at the door)
Tickets & Info: Wendy
Jones (416) 525-2391 & Earl La Pierre Jr. (416) 953-0905
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| Itah Sadu, owner of A Different Booklist Cultural Centre, will moderate the discussion about "The Story of Albert Jackson.' |
The Story of Albert Jackson will be presented on Wednesday, May 3,
7-9pm at A Different Booklist, 777-779 Bathurst St., Toronto as part of the
Mayworks Festival, April 28- May 7, 2017.
All Mayworks
events are FREE; as space is limited, RSVP is required:
albertjackson.eventbrite.ca
Racialized
workers experience higher rates of unemployment and precarious work. We are
making a link between the Albert Jackson story of 1882 and the intersection of
racism and precarious work today, as Canada celebrates 150 years of
Confederation in 2017.
The event will
see the launch of a new picture book by and for children about the story of
Albert Jackson, Toronto’s first black postal worker who faced racism from the
other postal workers.
Following the
book launch is a panel discussion moderated by Itah Sadu (A Different Booklist) and featuring Maryama Ahmed (Jane Finch Action Against Poverty), Mark Brown (Canadian Union of Postal
Workers), and Kingsley Kwok (Ontario
Public Service Employees Union).
Co-presented
with Ontario Black History Society, The Elementary Teachers of Toronto, Toronto
Workers’ History Project.
More information
at www.mayworks.ca
Joyful Rebellion (a Blackness Yes! fundraiser)
will be held on Friday,
May 5, 10pm-2:30am at Glad Day Bookshop, 499 Church St., Toronto.
Walk Good fundraiser – the JCA’s 35th
annual walkathon will be
held on Sunday, May 7. 5k or 10k routes. Walk, jog, run or cycle! Pledge forms
are available for the Jamaican Canadian Association or online at
jcaontario.org/walkgood or Sandra Whiting, Chair, 416-573-1375
Black Action Defense Committee presents the
annual Dudley Laws Scholarship Fundraising Brunch on Sunday, May 7. Doors open at 1:30pm,
starts at 2pm and ends at 6pm at the Jamaican Canadian Association, 995 Arrow
Rd., Toronto. Keynote speaker: Royson James, municipal affairs columnist of the
Toronto Star.
Tickets: $50
(includes meal and entertainment)
Internationally-acclaimed activist,
author and scholar, Angela Davis, will be the keynote speaker at the Human
Rights Forum held by the Canadian Labour Congress on Sunday, May 7. The CLC’s 28th
Constitutional Convention will be from Monday, May 8 to Friday, May 12 at Metro
Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front St. W., Toronto.
canadianlabour.ca/about-clc/conventions
Black Canadian
Studies Association biennial conference will be held at Brandon University in
Manitoba, May 11-13, 2017.
The
conference will feature outstanding scholars and contemporary thinkers and
activists as they explore key questions pertaining to the following topics (and
Conference title): “Blackness, Indigeneity, Colonialism, and Confederation:
21st Century Perspectives.” Keynote speakers will include Dr. Afua
Cooper, JRJ Chair in Black Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University and Dr.
Barrington Walker, Associate Professor at Queen’s University. The conference
will also feature Sandra Hudson, Cicely-Belle Blain and Amina Abawajy in
conversation about Black Lives Matter. It is anticipated that the
conference will bring together over 100 participants.
Additional
details about the conference can be found at https://www.brandonu.ca/bcsa/.
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| Dr. Afua Cooper, James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. |
La’ Riatsila Dance Theatre presents “INFUSED” on Sunday, May 21, 5:30 p.m. at Dancemakers Studio
Theatre, 313, 9 Trinity St., Toronto.
Tickets: $30
Facebook: La’ Riatsila
Email: la.riatsila@gmail.com
Telephone: 647-466-6812
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| La' Riatsila Dance Theater performing at JN Group Expo at Pearson Convention Centre in Brampton, Ontario in March 2017. |
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