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DWIGHT DRUMMOND moving to  CBC News Network’s Canada Tonight for a year! By STEPHEN WEIR  A Toronto dinner time TV tradition is about to end at least, for the next year. On Monday night, after 10-years on the job, Jamaican Canadian journalist and announcer Dwight Drummond will not be reading the news on CBC Toronto News at Six. Oh no Drummond hasn’t left the building, for the next year he will be the host of CBC News Network’s Canada Tonight. The 8pm news broadcast is seen across Canada on the CBC News Network.  He is temporarily taking over from award winning host Ginella Massa while she on maternity leave. The Caribbean Camera contacted the CBC to find out how the community could continue to get their Dwight Drummond fix on the Canada Tonight news hour. “Canada  Tonight is available weeknights at 8 pm in Canada on CBC's premium 24/7 cable news channel, CBC News Network,” reported the CBC PR department. It is also available “with a premium subscriptio...

Santacide Hits Toronto Big This Winter By Stephen Weir for the Caribbean Camera Toronto night Skulkers kill Santa Claus every night.   They also deflate Santa snowmen and crush festive penguins. Even Rudolf and all his darn reindeer aren’t safe this holiday season.   It is a Toronto phenomenon that is rapidly growing by stabs and slashes.   Christmas inflatables left outside at night have suddenly become targets.   I call it Santacide, others might say I am just full of hot air! Toronto Real Estate office jokes with  faux Santa killing Last week I was visited by a CBC TV news videographer who followed me as I inspected the remains of blown up blow-up lawn ornaments that have fallen prey to knife, hatpin and a porto weed wacker attacks overnight. (CTV TV News did a story the same night about   teenagers caught on film stabbing a fully inflated lawn Santa in Etobicoke). The newsman came out because of my on-line reputation as the Sant...