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By Margot Wallström IPS Guest Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden March 7, 2017 (IPS) — Lately, the world has tended to present itself in increasingly darker shades. In many places, democracy is questioned, women’s rights are threatened, and the multilateral system that ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist MONTREAL, Quebec March 8, 2017 — Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), the special day we celebrate how much women have achieved. We celebrate the various ways that women have advanced in various careers and ...

By Akinwumi Adesin IPS Guest Writer Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, March 6, 2017 (IPS) — International Women’s Day (IWD) is an important opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women and to be bold in promoting gender parity. Our world would be ...

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram IPS Guest Writer KUALA LAMPUR, Malaysia March 3, 2017 (IPS) — Unlike Wikileaks and other exposes, the Panama revelations were carefully managed, if not edited, quite selective, and hence targeted, at least initially. Most observers attribute ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist Tuesday, February 28, 2017 — It’s been a long time coming but a change has finally come. The seemingly impossible became possible and right smack bang during Black History Month, almost like a long awaited ...

Editor: I am a retired Peel Board teacher. So, as my response to the Peel Board’s community forums to get feedback on We Rise Together, the Board’s action plan to support black male students, I submitted the following recommendations as ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist “Sheila is crazy” or “Joseph is a little off.” Yes, we have all heard people utter such statements in reference to someone we know, or we have even made them ourselves. The unfortunate fact is ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist As a preliminary step, before delving into this somewhat charged topic, it is useful to define racial profiling, as the Canadian populace, in general, use the term to mean different things. For this editorial, I ...

By Amina Mohamed IPS Guest Columnist NAIROBI, Kenya, December 2, 2016 (IPS) — Africa, the cradle of mankind and home to the youngest population in the world, has a historic opportunity to realise its full potential, in sharing our potential ...

By Heather Gordon PRIDE Guest Columnist The current Opioids crisis has recently been a frequent and scary headline in our national papers and newsfeeds and is of concern to many Canadians, and rightly so. In Ontario an average of two ...