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TORONTO CARIBBEAN NEWSPAPER IS DOING THEIR CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY! Michael “Pinball” and Diane Lee Clemons are back for the 8th annual Christmas with the Clemons, a heartwarming concert filled with music, holiday cheer, and special performances by Deborah Cox, DVSN, and more. https://lnkd.in/gwu_j3Mx This magical evening is all about celebrating the season while giving back—proceeds support The Pinball Clemons Foundation, providing educational opportunities for marginalized youth. TO WIN TICKETS; Join the Toronto Caribbean Newspaper Forum on Facebook (https://lnkd.in/gdbhu8TD), and tell us who your favourite artist that is performing at "Christmas at the Clemons" and you will win 2 FREE TICKETS to be part of this incredible evening. Event Details  Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 7pm Location: Roy Thomson Hall - Toronto

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With thoughts of food on the brain, especially with Christmas just around the corner, I wonder how many of you hungry bellies are able to tell me which picture is real?

Classic or chocolate, with filling and suitable for any occasion, once again nobody will be doing without their panettone this Christmas. Even though the classic “rivalry” with pandoro, Italy’s other Christmas cake par excellence, is experiencing a successful comeback. Global pastry consumption and trends in view of Christmas have again come under the watchful eye of the Observatory of Sigep, the International Gelato, Pastry, Bakery, Coffee - and, as of this year, also Pizza - Show, organised by IEG - Italian Exhibition Group (Rimini Expo Centre, 18-22 January 2025, sigep.it). THE ISSUE OF RISING RAW MATERIAL PRICES As Sigep Observatory by IEG 2024 interviews with Europe's top pastry chefs revealed, the sector is facing high raw material prices: climate change has reduced the production of hazelnuts with a consequent +40% increase in costs that inevitably also falls on the end consumer; a jump that reaches +50% in the case of chocolate.

The Ontario Alliance of Black School Educators (ONABSE) is proud to announce the release of its groundbreaking report, Equity in Ontario Education: Anti-Black Racism Strategy Review beyond the Greater Toronto Area prepared by ONABSE Outreach Coordinator, Ella Nugent and President Deborah Buchanan-Walford. This critical report, launching on November 28, 2024, is the culmination of extensive interviews conducted with school boards across Ontario to evaluate their strategies for addressing and dismantling anti-Black racism within the education system. This report sheds light on the progress, challenges, and gaps that exist in implementing meaningful, systemic change to combat anti-Black racism. Through candid discussions with educators, administrators, and policymakers, ONABSE has gained a deeper understanding of the presence and impact of anti-racist work in Ontario's school boards, as well as the lived experiences of Black students, families, and staff within the province’s public education system. Key Findings: Variability in Commitment: While some boards have made strides in addressing anti-Black racism through equity policies and initiatives, this has been inconsistent across the province. Resource Allocation: A lack of sustained resources has emerged as a critical barrier to implementing effective anti-racist strategies. Gaps in Training: Culturally responsive and anti-racist professional development remains inconsistent, leaving many educators ill-equipped to address systemic racism in their classrooms. Need for Accountability: There is a pressing need for robust accountability frameworks to ensure that anti-Black racism strategies are not only implemented but also monitored for effectiveness. ONABSE President Deborah Buchanan-Walford emphasizes the urgency of these findings: "This report outlines the fact that while we have made significant strides due to community advocacy, more sustainable measures need to be put in place. School boards who have engaged authentically must be commended on the changes implemented thus far. However, we need comprehensive, sustained efforts to transform policies, practices, and pedagogies at all levels across the entire province and this must be led by the Ministry of Education. Ontario’s Black students, families, and educators deserve nothing less." Launch Event Details: The report will be officially launched during a virtual event on November 28, 2024, at 6:00 PM EST in partnership with the Urban Alliance on Race Relations’ Equity in Education Project. The event will feature a presentation of the report’s findings and recommendations, a panel discussion with key stakeholders, and an interactive Q&A session. ONABSE invites educators, policymakers, community leaders, allies, and members of the public to join the conversation and commit to collective action in creating an inclusive, equitable education system that empowers Black students, their families and Black educators to thrive.

CBC Jingle Jam - December 13 Join CBC stars including Allan Hawco (Saint-Pierre, Republic of Doyle); Mark Critch and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (Son of a Critch); Supinder Wraich and Samer Salem (Allegiance); Luke Hutchie (Ghosting); Chandan Fashion's Singh family (Bollywed) and Sharron Matthews (Frankie Drake Mysteries) to serenade the season and Make the Season Kind in support of food banks across the GTA. Event Details Host: Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe, host of CBC’s The Block Location: STACKT market - 28 Bathurst Street, Toronto. Time: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM: Good Enough Live Karaoke featuring singalongs with the University of Toronto's MacMillan Singers and CBC stars 9:30 PM to 11 PM: DJ set by CBC Afterdark host & DJ Odario Celebrate our community and the best of CBC with live music and singalongs featuring Good Enough Live Karaoke, pop-up stations, and special giveaways and surprises. The event is free, and there is no RSVP required. Bring your besties and get ready to sing!

Would you like 2%, oat milk, or fish milk? Alternative milks are steadily making headway in the traditionally cow-based dairy industry, though most are made from boring, old plants. But what if you could get dairy from a splashier source? Enter: fish milk. WE’LL GIVE YOU A MINUTE… …  to finish picturing how you might milk a fish — Maybe with a tiny bucket? — but that’s not what’s happening here. (Unfortunately.) The Berikan Protein Initiative, an Indonesian nonprofit, is turning fish into “milk” through a chemical process called hydrolysis, per The Wall Street Journal. Fresh fish are deboned, dried, and “reduced to a white protein-rich powder.” The powder is combined with strawberry or chocolate flavoring, plus sugar. Add water, and you get something that supposedly “tastes like normal milk.” The organization believes fish milk could be a $4.5B industry. But not everyone… … is hooked on fish milk. The consensus is that the chocolate variation is too fishy. Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Indonesia’s health minister, told WSJ he’d prefer to raise cows or import milk from nearby Australia. “There are many, many, many options to do before we are milking the fish,” Sadikin said. … market research group NielsenIQ says overall milk sales are declining due to rising costs, with alternative milks declining faster since they’re already more expensive. That said: People are specifically buying lactose-free dairy milk despite the higher cost. Despite the dip for other alt milks, this suggests consumers will continue buying alt milks in general, per NielsenIQ. So, maybe fish milk has a chance? The next time someone offers you a glass of thick, hearty, strawberry-flavored fish milk, remember that drinking cow milk also must’ve seemed weird at first.

The beef continues: Drake filed a legal petition accusing Universal Music Group — which distributes both Drake and rap rival Kendrick Lamar’s music — and Spotify of using bots, payola, and other means to inflate the metrics of Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us” to make it seem more popular. UMG rejected Drake’s claim, saying that no “contrived and absurd legal arguments” could hide that “fans choose the music they want to hear” — which, TBH, also sounds like a bit of a diss. Drake later filed a second petition accusing UMG of a similar scheme with iHeartRadio and releasing a song that alleges he’s a sexual predator.

Yummmm! Both look good to me, but which one of these delicious cuts of meat is real?

You watched in shock as family after family recounted horror stories in “Vaxxed III: Authorized to Kill” of their loved ones’ treatment in hospitals during the COVID pandemic. But did you know those heart-rending stories are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to doctor-induced harm? CHD’s new book “The Medical-Pharmaceutical Killing Machine” pulls no punches about the potentially deadly consequences of putting your life in the hands of medical professionals — people whose income almost always goes up rather than down when something goes wrong. “The Medical-Pharmaceutical Killing Machine” is a terrifying, but necessary, read — it just may save your life. It has always been easy for medical practitioners to hide their mistakes and deadly outcomes.  Archaic practices like bloodletting and dosing with “heroic” amounts of mercury usually did more harm than good. Even the “father of our country” himself, George Washington, wasn’t safe from their barbaric practices! But rather than making us safer, in many ways modern medical technology makes it easier to incur harm — and harder to hold anyone accountable for it — than ever before. Knowing how and where that harm is likely to happen could keep you and your loved ones from falling prey to deadly medicine.