By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer The United Achievers’ Club of Brampton has presented fourteen outstanding students with scholarships to help them in their pursuit of tertiary education. For the past twenty-nine years, the organization has been presenting scholarships to ...
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Many Americans Facing Challenge Of Balancing Ethnic Identities
NYC-raised, Iranian-schooled Woman Says We Should All Embrace And Preserve Cultural Traditions What does it mean to be an American? The answer to that question is changing. It’s exemplified in stories like that of Shaghayegh “Sharon” Farsijani, raised in New ...
Read More »Developing Excellence Through Cultural Capital
By Dwain Wellington Rattray Pride Contributing Editor If we do not teach excellence to our children, then we are doomed to live in a society fettered by things we consider common. The idea of excellence is not a foreign concept ...
Read More »REAL ESTATE…with a difference: Atlanta’s Movie Mansion!
Buckhead, a suburb on the north side of Atlanta, is sometimes referred to as the “Beverly Hills of the South” due to its extreme concentration of wealth. Forbes lists it as the ninth wealthiest zip code in the United States, ...
Read More »REAL ESTATE…with a difference: Absolute World Towers In Mississauga
Winner of the world’s most renowned prize for high-rise architecture for 2012, the Emporis Skyscraper Award, is the Absolute World Towers in Mississauga, Canada, a suburb of Toronto. Better known as the Marilyn Monroe Towers because of their voluptuous curving ...
Read More »How To Ensure Divorce Won’t Wipe You Out Financially
As More Older Couples Call It Quits, 3 Experts Share Tips for Protecting Yourself Along with all of its other unfortunate consequences, divorce can be so financially devastating for both spouses, sometimes neither ever recovers. This poses a special problem ...
Read More »HEALTHY REASONING: Get Your Yearly Check-Up
By Allan Jones Pride Health Columnist With the media constantly bombarding us with the results of this or that medical study, and the many websites, TV programs, social media, friends and family offering information about the ability to self-diagnose, many ...
Read More »Haitian American Architect Wins Design For Permanent Memorial Honouring Victims Of Slave Trade
UNITED NATIONS, New York CMC – A Haitian American architect has been declared the winner of an international competition to design a memorial that will be permanently on display at United Nations Headquarters in New York to honor victims of ...
Read More »Ready To Make The Jump? Now’s The Time For A Heartfelt Encore
Mother of Re-Invention Shares Tips for Finding Work that Feeds the Soul They’re called second acts, encore careers or reinventing yourself – they’re the completely new and different jobs people take in midlife or later. Today, making that jump is ...
Read More »Post-Recession Optimism Brightens Fall Home & Garden Trends
Happy Colors, Simplicity and Sustainability Top the List, Says Award-Winning Designer Lighten up!! That’s the buzz phrase for fall as a recovering economy fans a collective determination to put the bad news of recent years – from layoffs to natural ...
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