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Racial incidents ignored by York board, families say | Toronto Star
my nieces go to a school in york, i dare a kid to try
my nieces go to a school in york, i dare a kid to try
Going onsite in Ajax today, time to explore
I just pull into the parking lot of the site and I've seen like 11 black people already.Ajax is very spacious, wide roads...
Can we ship these Syrians back already
Families getting 2k a month leeching off the government
Better to be a refugee than a cdn citizen
Families getting 2k a month leeching off the government
Better to be a refugee than a cdn citizen
Ajax is very spacious, wide roads...
Brehs im cheesedddd, I check my email today to find more job and contract offers since accepting this contract and updating my resume on monster, if your certed up and incorporated in Toronto you can eat forever although you won't be able to get E.i but that's light. I've been doing it wrong this whole time,Your suppose to let the recruiter find you,not the other way around
although you won't be able to get E.i but that's light. I've been doing it wrong this whole time,Your suppose to let the recruiter find you,not the other way around
By: Donovan Vincent News reporter, Published on Sun Feb 21 2016
Lt.-Cmdr. Paul Smith had an inkling he was the first black person to attain that rank in the Royal Canadian Navy’s 106-year history.
The navy chose Smith, 48, to be a commander in January 2010, but it wasn’t until around July 2014 — when he was appointed his first ship, the coastal defence vessel HMCS Kingston — that talk began in earnest about his possibly making history.
The subject first came up during coffees Smith had with some of his naval colleagues, he says.
“Someone said, ‘I think you might be the first black c.o. (commanding officer) we’ve had on a ship,’” Smith says.
Being in uniform for 23 years, and sailing on Canadian ships for almost as long, Smith hadn’t worked under any black commanding officers.
An officer combed naval records for the definitive answer.
The Directorate of History and Heritage, a repository of the navy’s past, was the source used to make the confirmation, navy spokesperson Lt. Blake Patterson told the Star recently. It’s a detail few outside the navy are aware of.
Receiving that proof was “great news” for Smith, who says it’s an honour to represent both the black community and the Canadian navy.
Being the first is “a bit of responsibility and something I embrace,” Smith says in an interview from Miami. The ship he now commands, HMCS Summerside, set sail for the Caribbean to participate in Operation CARIBBE 2016, part of a multinational campaign against drug trafficking.
“I like to think that I can provide some measure of being a role model to not just black Canadians but any diversity group,” says Smith, who is married with two sons and lives with his family in Halifax.
Smith says most people aren’t surprised when they learn he’s a ship commander.
“The military has no roadblocks based on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation. If you’re a qualified person, you are qualified,” he says. “I’ll leave it to others to say how they feel about (that), but I certainly haven’t had any issues.”
During the fall of 2014 Smith was part of history of another sort, when his ship joined the search party for the Franklin expedition ships Erebus and Terror. Though his vessel was further west, outside the search area, when the Erebus was found, Smith’s vessel helped transport equipment used in the hunt.
Born in Lionel Town, Jamaica, Smith came to Canada at age 7 with his parents and grew up in North York.
About to graduate high school and looking for a summer job at age 19, Smith learned about the naval reserve’s summer youth employment program, in which participants signed up for basic training at HMCS York in Toronto, a Canadian Forces naval reserve division.
He went on to the fall program and the next summer, after completing his general military training, left home for basic training in Halifax. That was 1986.
That year, he first crossed the ocean on a Canadian naval ship, and sailed Europe during fleet exercises, his first real taste of life at sea.
He returned to Canada to attend Dalhousie University and earn a degree in sociology.
In 1999, after achieving the rank of petty officer second class, Smith became a sub-lieutenant, and kept moving up through the ranks.
His love for the sea hasn’t ebbed.
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Lt.-Cmdr. Paul Smith had an inkling he was the first black person to attain that rank in the Royal Canadian Navy’s 106-year history.
The navy chose Smith, 48, to be a commander in January 2010, but it wasn’t until around July 2014 — when he was appointed his first ship, the coastal defence vessel HMCS Kingston — that talk began in earnest about his possibly making history.
The subject first came up during coffees Smith had with some of his naval colleagues, he says.
“Someone said, ‘I think you might be the first black c.o. (commanding officer) we’ve had on a ship,’” Smith says.
Being in uniform for 23 years, and sailing on Canadian ships for almost as long, Smith hadn’t worked under any black commanding officers.
An officer combed naval records for the definitive answer.
The Directorate of History and Heritage, a repository of the navy’s past, was the source used to make the confirmation, navy spokesperson Lt. Blake Patterson told the Star recently. It’s a detail few outside the navy are aware of.
Receiving that proof was “great news” for Smith, who says it’s an honour to represent both the black community and the Canadian navy.
Being the first is “a bit of responsibility and something I embrace,” Smith says in an interview from Miami. The ship he now commands, HMCS Summerside, set sail for the Caribbean to participate in Operation CARIBBE 2016, part of a multinational campaign against drug trafficking.
“I like to think that I can provide some measure of being a role model to not just black Canadians but any diversity group,” says Smith, who is married with two sons and lives with his family in Halifax.
Smith says most people aren’t surprised when they learn he’s a ship commander.
“The military has no roadblocks based on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation. If you’re a qualified person, you are qualified,” he says. “I’ll leave it to others to say how they feel about (that), but I certainly haven’t had any issues.”
During the fall of 2014 Smith was part of history of another sort, when his ship joined the search party for the Franklin expedition ships Erebus and Terror. Though his vessel was further west, outside the search area, when the Erebus was found, Smith’s vessel helped transport equipment used in the hunt.
Born in Lionel Town, Jamaica, Smith came to Canada at age 7 with his parents and grew up in North York.
About to graduate high school and looking for a summer job at age 19, Smith learned about the naval reserve’s summer youth employment program, in which participants signed up for basic training at HMCS York in Toronto, a Canadian Forces naval reserve division.
He went on to the fall program and the next summer, after completing his general military training, left home for basic training in Halifax. That was 1986.
That year, he first crossed the ocean on a Canadian naval ship, and sailed Europe during fleet exercises, his first real taste of life at sea.
He returned to Canada to attend Dalhousie University and earn a degree in sociology.
In 1999, after achieving the rank of petty officer second class, Smith became a sub-lieutenant, and kept moving up through the ranks.
His love for the sea hasn’t ebbed.
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we're finally getting people on the inside brehs
awaiting my income tax cheque 
Finally killed flow 93.5
they shutting down?
Yeah on Monday got rid of all the females as well
It's now called the move and just plays pop throwbacks
It's now called the move and just plays pop throwbacks
RealAssanova
Vagitarian
FINALLY THEY SHUTTING THAT PIECE OF SHYT DOWN.
we still don't have a decent hip/hop, rap and r&b station. 93.7WBLK is the closest one i have to perfection.
G98.7
Flow was wack when it first began it was dope. Good riddance, didn't even have black people hosting.
Radio as a whole is garbage if I'm not auxing from my phone ID rather listen to the fan or tsn radio than some wack rsdio station playing the same song.
Wherei work its judt98.1 from 8am to 4pm I hate it so much
Radio as a whole is garbage if I'm not auxing from my phone ID rather listen to the fan or tsn radio than some wack rsdio station playing the same song.
Wherei work its judt98.1 from 8am to 4pm I hate it so much
FINALLY THEY SHUTTING THAT PIECE OF SHYT DOWN.
we still don't have a decent hip/hop, rap and r&b station. 93.7WBLK is the closest one i have to perfection.
G98.7
root_eruditorium_org
All Star
2K? WHat the fukkk??
That's not the govt's money by the way, it's yours and mines.
I get skimmed so much off of taxes, i can now see why ppl don't like it when refugees get handouts.