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JOB DESCRIPTION Job ID: 246995 Posting status:  Open Targeted Organization:  Ontario Creates Division:  Industry Investment and Attraction Group City:  Toronto Position(s) language:  English Job term:  1 Temporary Contract/Assignment - 12 months with possibility of extension Job code:  M1108A - Prog Planning & Evaluation08 Salary:  $110,638.00 - $155,942.00 Per year Champion the future of Ontario's creative industries.

Every summer, the Montreal International Jazz Festival transforms downtown into a sprawling celebration of music. What many visitors miss is that much of the sound and the city around it, has been shaped and sustained by Black Montrealers. From festival programmers to chefs redefining Caribbean cuisine, Black culture isn't simply part of Montreal's story, it's still creating it.

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Long before Ontario pinned medals on them, Moore and McGowan had already figured out how to succeed inside systems that keep asking you to shrink while calling it opportunity. Moore spent sixteen years inside Canadian homes as the host of Cityline, becoming one of the country's most recognizable television personalities while quietly reshaping what mainstream Canadian media could look like.

CALGARY, AB — June 19, 2026 — International Afrobeats sensation Adekunle Gold headlines the Oodua Concert on Friday, June 26, 2026, at the Jack Singer Concert Hall in Calgary. The performance brings one of African music's most celebrated live acts to a venue ranked among the ten best concert halls in North America, for a night built around the storytelling, soul, and genre-blending sound that has carried him to stages worldwide.

While one is understood as prejudice and discrimination, the other is defined as an intense and irrational fear that, ironically, terrifies me. It’s 2017, I’ve just come home from 5th-grade English, turned on the television just in time to hear the words “Islamophobic Attack,” words used to describe the now nationally remembered Quebec City mosque shooting. Six people are dead and 19 injured, all while trying to simply practice their religion—a religion that I share.

Before millions of people online would discover her talent, Christina Smith was just an unsuspecting toddler singing classical songs at the top of her lungs in the late '90s. Opera had already chosen her. As a young Black Caribbean-Canadian woman, she would eventually have to prove she belonged — and carry both the pressure to succeed and the weight of representation. The early signs were there before she had language for them.

"Did you not get the letter?" the lead asked. Miles-Senior checked her inbox. Nothing. Then her junk folder. There it was: a notification sent at 2:15 p.m. on a Friday, informing her organization that its funding had been cut. No transition plan. No consultation. No warning "I lost my mind," Miles-Senior says, plainly. "I was really angry." She wasn't alone. Across Ontario, 22 Black-led organizations received the same news through the same broken system. Some didn't receive the letter at all.

"Did you not get the letter?" the lead asked. Miles-Senior checked her inbox. Nothing. Then her junk folder. There it was: a notification sent at 2:15 p.m. on a Friday, informing her organization that its funding had been cut. No transition plan. No consultation. No warning "I lost my mind," Miles-Senior says, plainly. "I was really angry." She wasn't alone. Across Ontario, 22 Black-led organizations received the same news through the same broken system. Some didn't receive the letter at all.

Last autumn, I attended a presentation by C& (Contemporary And) — an internationally renowned platform for contemporary art from Africa and its global diaspora — at an event co-organized by BAND (Black Artists' Network In Dialogue) and Gallery TPW here in Toronto. The room was full of fascinating creative souls from all over the country, many of them in town for Art Toronto. The kind of energy you feel when a big idea meets the right moment.