By Thora Espinet PRIDE Guest Columnist More and more couples are now avoiding the bonds of marriage, and instead are opting to live in common law relationships. In most case they assume that they have the same property rights when ...
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By Ajamu Nangwaya PRIDE Guest Columnist “We are creating a society where youth are afraid of police even to the point of hatred. You don’t have enough guns and tasers to control a society that hates police.” Kingsley Gilliam, ...
Read More »Carding: A Really Dumb And Dangerous Idea
Editor: Occasionally, some really dumb, mischievous, and dangerous idea appears at the most inopportune time. Carding is such an idea. If the police had deliberated with great care, to devise a plan to worsen race relations in this city, ...
Read More »The Mighty Political Wind Of Change In Alberta
By Rupert Johnson On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 the mighty political wind of change hurled across the province of Alberta and swept Jim Prentice and his Progressive Conservative party out of office. And then suddenly the onset of changing wind ...
Read More »Mayor Tory Betrays Trust Of Black Petty Bourgeois “Lovers”
By Ajamu Nangwaya Guest Writer The unchecked love-fest displayed toward John Tory by the African Canadian petty bourgeoisie in Toronto’s 2014 mayoral election prevented this class from looking out for the best interests of the community. The African Canadian newspapers, public figures, the notables and ...
Read More »Toronto’s 1992 Yonge Street Uprising: African Resistance to State/Police Violence
By Ajamu Nangwaya Guest Writer “By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?” — Dr. Walter Rodney The May ...
Read More »“To Thine Own Self Be True”: The Bruce Jenner Saga
By Sandy Daley The great Buddha once said, “You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, ...
Read More »The Black Petty Bourgeois’ Love Affair With Toronto’s Conservative Mayor John Tory
By Ajamu Nangwaya Guest Writer Given the early record of the conservative mayor of Toronto John Tory in standing against issues that are of interests to the African Canadian community, it would not be hard for a casual observer of ...
Read More »A Deceptive Way Of Balancing The Budget
By Rupert Johnson Any government budget should not only state its intent to collect revenue, but also outline the way in which it intends to spend this revenue. It is obvious that when expenditure exceeds revenue this is referred to ...
Read More »Three Ways To Look At Death Differently
Fear & Close-mindedness Are Arguably The Real Tragedy Of Death, Says Franciscan Renaissance Man There are those who just know how they’ll react if and when they have to confront their own mortality. They will freely admit that they’ll be ...
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