Pride News Magazine Publisher/Editor: I just finished reading Pride’s issue of Wednesday, February 10, 2016. It was interesting to note that this publication will be the last printed edition, after 33 years of service to the community. I am keeping this ...
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Feed SubscriptionNeed For A Black Museum?
Editor: It is with interest that I read the article on a black museum. Perhaps we should also have a museum for Russian, Polish, Dutch, Italian etc. etc. Canadians. They are just as important to the creation of the Canada ...
Read More »Racial Profiling In Child Welfare?
Editor: As a member of the Black community, and someone with child welfare experience, I consider G98.7FM, Share and Pride News Magazine to be the voice of those who reflect the African Diaspora here in Toronto. I am respectfully asking ...
Read More »Drugs Legalization And Its Impact On Young Black Men
Editor: It is much easier to discuss the murder of young black men in Toronto than it is to discuss the legalisation of drugs. The number of young black men murdered is small compared to the number of young men ...
Read More »Depradine’s Recommendations Could Put Toronto Caribbean Festival On Good Footing
Dear Editor: Allow me this opportunity to commend Pride and contributing writer, Lincoln Depradine, for a very well-written piece on the state of Toronto’s Caribbean Festival. He not only presented an excellent overview of Caribbean type carnivals in general, and ...
Read More »Reggae Lane
Dear Mr. Van Cooten: RE: TORONTO TO UNVEIL REGGAE LANE Dear Sir: Please allow me space in your publication to respond to an article in your September 3rd 2014 issue entitled “Toronto to unveil Reggae Lane”. I must first express ...
Read More »Congratulations!
Hi Sharmon Carrington: Congratulations on the very sound, well-informed advice you published for parents in your article of Wednesday ,September3rd. It was so educational, and I hope and pray that our ethnic (Black) parents are taking note of this. Good ...
Read More »Loved Your Article
Hello Mrs. Carrington: Re: Advice For Parents Of Elementary School-Age Children (Wednesday, September 3, 2014). Thank you so much for writing this article in the Pride News Magazine. I do hope lots of parents took the time to read it carefully. ...
Read More »Strong Leadership Needed In Ferguson To Restore Trust, Stability, And Social Cohesion
Dear Editor: The situation in Ferguson Missouri is chilling, deeply troubling, and shows this community as a microcosm of the deep racial disparities that exist in America. It brings to the forefront many critically important civil rights issues including use ...
Read More »Birds Of A Feather?
Dear Editor: Assimilation and integration has caused the ideology of Rastafari to be contaminated with Babylonian thoughts and sympathies. Hearing Patrick Roots and King David from CIUT radio describe Rastafest as “Not a Black thing but a Rasta ting” sent ...
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