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  This Weather Report brought to you by Natasha Ramsahai BY STEPHEN WEIR Last month it was announced during a City TV Breakfast TV broadcast that Natasha Ramsahai  had been promoted to Chief Meteorologist at CityNews Toronto. She is the first person of colour in all of Canada to earn this position. She  is an On-Air Meteorologist for 680 NEWS and Citynews. As a member of the Citynews weather team she is also be seen on the popular Breakfast Television morning show. “ What’s big time notable is this promotion is breaking down barriers,” she posted on Instagram after the news was made official. “It is an honour to hopefully inspire young Canadians who look like me to aim high, never give up, be yourself and go after your dreams.” Prior to joining City TV and AM 680 she worked at the CBC  where she was not only the first meteorologist ever hired by the CBC, she was also the first female on-air meteorologist in the city of Toronto starting in 1999 Ramsahai was born and ...

     The Porter - Fictional But True There was no better day for the CBC to sit down and talk to Caribbean Camera about their new TV series The Porter than last Tuesday – the start of Black History Month in Canada. When the new Series goes to air on February 21 The Porter will have the distinction of being the country’s largest Black-led TV series. The Social Media Astroturfing had already begun when the Caribbean Camera snagged a cross-North America Zoom sit-down interview with the principal actors, producers, and writers.  Dance. Drama. Action. This high-quality series celebrates the lives, untold stories and achievements of the Black train porters and their families in Canada. The Camera has agreed to embargo those interviews for the next two weeks so as to not steal the thunder of the opening night launch of CBC TV and Gem TV.  The Porter will also be airing in the US on BET+ TV but that premier date has not been announced by the American Blac...

-->   --> What is happening this year on Frankie Drake? Good things come for viewers who Waite! Brampton actor kills it on Mondays  By Stephen Weir You are at home watching the CBC. If it is Monday and someone has been murdered or a bank safe has been cracked, chances are Romaine Waite is involved. The up and coming Jamaican Canadian actor has an incredible oeuvre, and somehow two of the Canadian shows (and an American show to boot) he has regularly appeared in air on Monday evening. And yes somebody usually gets murdered, the bank’s safe usually gets blown open with sticks of TNT and nice-guy Waite usually helps solve the mystery. “Ha, Ha” laughed the Toronto based actor when the Caribbean Camera pointed out the Monday mayhem to him. “ Yes I did appear in a Murdoch Mystery or two, and yes it airs on Mondays, but, so too have a lot of other actors.   Season Three of the Frankie Drake Mysteries series is airing now on the CBC and...