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By Mark Brown PRIDE Guest Columnist In 2013, two-year-old Eva Ravikovich’s lifeless body was discovered in an overcrowded Vaughan home daycare. “Guilty” was the verdict recently rendered by Justice of the Peace, Marie-Christine Smythe, in a Toronto area courtroom. Justice Smythe ...

Photo above: Then Toronto Mayor Rob Ford appears in front of the media in Toronto, on Friday, January 25, 2013, after learning that he has successfully appealed a decision to remove him from office, following a conflict of interest hearing. ...

By Mark Brown PRIDE Guest Columnist It is the spring of 1990. A hard winter is on its way out and I was looking forward to exchanging the big winter coat for the long shorts and matching shirt that I ...

By Ernest Guiste Guest Writer When newly-elected Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was asked about his gender-equal cabinet, he proudly proclaimed “because it’s 2015” – signaling that the times have changed. Gone are the days when cabinets were dominated by men. Mr. ...

By Mark Brown PRIDE Guest Columnist   “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” – Malcolm X.   For far too many the stamp in their education passport says access ...

By Rupert Johnson PRIDE Columnist There has been a heightened furor over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to end the bombing mission of the CF-18’s fighter jets against ISIS targets in Iraq. It should be noted, that the opponents of ...

By Rupert Johnson PRIDE Columnist It can be said that thoughts are powerful forces that can give rise to ideas. The Oxford Dictionary defines the word “thought” as “an idea or piece of reasoning produced by thinking.” There is no ...

By Mark Brown PRIDE Guest Writer Sandra Bland, age 28; Andrew Loku, age 45; Tamir Rice, age 12; Jermaine Anthony Carby, age 33; and Freddie Gray, age 25. These are but a few of the African Canadian and African American ...

By Sandy Daley PRIDE Columnist Alan Rickman, the amazing character actor who passed away on January 14, once said, “Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music or a book, can make a ...

By Rupert Johnson PRIDE Columnist At this gloomy, depressing and debilitating season when the world seems to be in turmoil, a few thoughts may enliven our spirits and even stir us to action. It has been said that “minds are ...