About Vision Newspaper

Vision Newspaper

Overview

Vision Newspaper is a Canadian newspaper serving the Caribbean diaspora, published online at visionnewspaper.ca under the banner "Vision Newspaper – The Caribbean Update." Based in the Greater Toronto Area, it covers Caribbean news, Black Canadian and African diaspora culture, music and community life for readers in Canada and, in its own description, in the United Kingdom and beyond. In its own words, it aims to be "a leading voice for the Caribbean diaspora, delivering news, entertainment, and cultural insights" to that readership.

The paper is part of S-Q Publications Inc., a small Toronto-area publishing group whose other titles, GTA Today and GTA Weekly, cover general news in the Greater Toronto Area. Vision Newspaper is the group's Caribbean-facing title: its editor-in-chief, Alwin Marshall-Squire, oversees editorial strategy for all three publications, and the group's stated mission is to deliver original journalism focused on the people and communities of the Greater Toronto Area, Canada and the global Caribbean diaspora. The paper publishes on a frequent, news-driven cycle online, and it was publishing new material throughout 2026, including interviews, entertainment coverage and community reporting dated within days of this profile's preparation.

History

Vision Newspaper's founding date and early history are not documented in the independent sources available for this profile, and the paper does not publish a corporate history. It is a digital-era entrant in a Toronto Caribbean media tradition that long predates it: Contrast, founded in 1969, Share, founded by Arnold Auguste in 1978, and The Caribbean Camera, founded by Ken Maharaj in 1990, built the city's Caribbean press in print. Vision Newspaper represents the newer, online-first generation of that tradition, publishing on the web and social media rather than as a weekly print tabloid.

What can be documented is the paper's place within its publishing group. S-Q Publications Inc. publishes GTA Today and GTA Weekly, general-interest titles covering the Greater Toronto Area, from offices in Vaughan, on Toronto's northern boundary. Vision Newspaper shares that base and its editor-in-chief. By 2024 the paper was publishing entertainment and diaspora coverage under its "Caribbean Update" banner, and its output through 2025 and 2026 shows a settled editorial identity: Caribbean and diaspora news, reggae and dancehall coverage, profiles of diaspora achievers, and Toronto community reporting. Its content is also republished in the United Kingdom by Cat Radio, a British reggae and urban music station, which carries Vision Newspaper stories in full with attribution — an arrangement that reflects the paper's positioning as a diaspora-wide, rather than purely local, publication.

Content and Coverage

Vision Newspaper's coverage mixes Caribbean homeland news with the life of the diaspora in Canada. Its named strands include Reggae Pulse, its coverage of reggae, dancehall and Caribbean music, artists and culture, and Jamaica Today, its running coverage of headlines from Jamaica and across the Caribbean. A sample of its 2026 output gives the flavour: in October 2026 it previewed a Reggae Ambassador dinner and dance gala in Niagara Falls headlined by Marcia Griffiths, profiled the Jamaican singer Kass Smith's work in Mexico and Latin America, and covered the Bahamian-Jamaican artist Avaran's new album. In September 2026 it sat down with the Nigerian screen star Rita Dominic during her visit to the Toronto International Film Festival for an exclusive interview, and reported on Toronto rapper Drake's Billboard chart records.

The paper also does the community work of a diaspora newspaper. In June 2026 it published a substantial obituary of Monica Lewis, the Little Jamaica pioneer whose Monica's Beauty Supply on Eglinton Avenue West was a landmark of Toronto's Caribbean business community, recording the funeral arrangements and her place in the neighbourhood's history. Its profile coverage includes figures such as Monique Broughton, the JN Bank representative in Canada, in a series highlighting diaspora professionals. The through-line is Pan-African and Caribbean rather than single-island: Jamaican, Trinidadian, Bahamian and African stories all appear — the paper itself signs off stories with an invitation to follow it "for more stories from the Pan-African diaspora" — addressed to a readership whose identity is diasporic as much as national. Its Toronto focus is equally clear in its entertainment reporting: a September 2024 story on Sean Paul's single "Bring It" centred on the song's music video being shot in Toronto with local creative contributors, treating a Jamaican star's Toronto production as a home-town story.

Audience and Reach

Vision Newspaper addresses the Caribbean diaspora in Canada — one of the country's largest and longest-established immigrant communities, concentrated in the Greater Toronto Area — and, by its own account, readers in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the diaspora. Caribbean Canadians number more than half a million, the scale cited by Caribbean Intelligence in its profile of the community's media, and they support a dense media environment of newspapers, radio and online outlets; Vision Newspaper competes in that environment as an online title with a music- and culture-heavy mix.

No audited circulation or traffic figures for Vision Newspaper are published, and this profile makes no claim about the size of its audience. The observable evidence of its reach is qualitative: its stories are republished by a British partner outlet, its interviews are granted by visiting international artists and their representatives during major events such as the Toronto International Film Festival, and its social channels are promoted on every story under its @VisionNewspaper handle.

Digital Presence

Vision Newspaper is a digital publication. Its home is visionnewspaper.ca, where stories appear under its "The Caribbean Update" branding, and it promotes its coverage through social media as @VisionNewspaper, including on X. Its digital reach is extended by syndication: Cat Radio in the United Kingdom republishes Vision Newspaper articles on its own website with the paper's branding, strand names and social handles intact, carrying Toronto Caribbean coverage to a British reggae audience. The paper's sister titles, GTA Today and GTA Weekly, operate in the same digital fashion for a general GTA readership, publishing Canadian national and Ontario news — court and Senate appointments, federal announcements and provincial affairs — alongside the group's community titles.

Ownership and Organisation

Vision Newspaper is published by S-Q Publications Inc., a Greater Toronto Area publishing company whose portfolio also includes GTA Today and GTA Weekly. The editor-in-chief of S-Q Publications is Alwin Marshall-Squire, who, according to his published author biography on GTA Today, oversees editorial strategy for GTA Weekly, GTA Today and Vision Newspaper and leads the publications' mission of journalism focused on the Greater Toronto Area, Canada and the global Caribbean diaspora. The group's office is in Suite 100 at 400 Applewood Crescent in Concord, Vaughan, Ontario — the address given in Marshall-Squire's author biography and in business listings for Vision Newspaper. No information about the company's ownership beyond the S-Q Publications name, its revenues or its staffing is published in the sources available for this profile.

Contact and Availability

Vision Newspaper is published online at visionnewspaper.ca and can be followed on social media as @VisionNewspaper. Business listings for the paper give its address as 400 Applewood Crescent, Suite 100, Vaughan, Ontario, with the telephone number +1 647-563-8468 and weekday office hours. Readers looking for the paper's latest Caribbean and diaspora coverage, including its Reggae Pulse music coverage and Jamaica Today headlines, should go directly to the website, where new stories appear on a frequent cycle.