BRAMPTON, Ontario September 19, 2018 — Allan Bucka Jones, a familiar face and voice in the Canadian Black community, is contesting to be the Regional Councillor for Wards 2 & 6, in the Brampton Municipal Elections, on October 22. Jamaica-born ...
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By Yvonne Sam Social and Political Commentator In order for the youth, and obviously ignorant among us, to be aware of how Black people have been abused, marginalized and arrested for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, ...
Read More »Rest In Peace Eunice Quash-Branch
ONTARIO, September 18, 2018 — Born on August 31, 1963, Eunice Quash-Branch, daughter of the late Alphonso and Daisy Quash, “went to be with her God”, on September 11, at the age of 55, after a lengthy fight with cancer. ...
Read More »Nationally-Renowned Academic, The Late Dr. Agnes Miranda Calliste, Commemorated
ANTIGONISH, Nova Scotia, September 14, 2018 — A memorial service for Dr. Agnes Miranda Calliste, 74, of Antigonish — a town in Antigonish County in Nova Scotia — was held at the St. Francis Xavier University Chapel, last Saturday, September ...
Read More »Recognising, Honouring And Celebrating 100 Black Canadian Women — Again
By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario — Since as early as the eighteenth century, Black Canadian women have achieved tremendous successes and accomplishments in many fields, giving Canada its unique identity. From Marie-Joseph Angélique in the early 1700’s; ...
Read More »Densley Mitchell Sylvan Passed Away And Interred
TORONTO, Ontario September 6, 2018 — Densley Mitchell Sylvan, 73, on Sunday, August 19, at 1:45pm, passed away at the Michael Garron Hospital, formerly Toronto East General Hospital, in Toronto. Born in Snell Hall and Madeys in Sauteurs, Grenada on ...
Read More »Grenada-born Milton Griffith Passes Away
ONTARIO, September 6, 2018 — Born in Mount Morritz, Grenada, Milton Griffith died, peacefully, on Thursday, August 23. Predeceased by Cynthia Griffith (nee Ricketts), his loving wife of 55 years, he was father of Jacqueline Silvera (husband, Andrew); Jennifer Baur ...
Read More »Grenada Consulate In Toronto Hosting Memorial Service For Leonard Wharwood, Jr.
TORONTO, Ontario September 6, 2018 — A memorial service — organised and hosted by Grenada’s consulate office in Toronto — will be held, on Sunday, for the late Leonard Wharwood, Jr., the country’s former Honorary Consul in Montreal. Wharwood, who ...
Read More »Canada Provides Funds For Development Projects In Dominica
ROSEAU, Dominica, September 5, 2018 (CMC) – Canada said, today, it would provide nearly 20 million dollars to fund development projects in hurricane-battered Dominica. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development of Canada, Kamal Khera, said that Ottawa is ...
Read More »Remembering The Late Magdalene Adelaide Blair (Nee Jessemy)
Magdalene Adelaide Blair (nee Jessemy), fondly known as Madge, passed away on Saturday, August 25, 2018 at the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Maryland, after a lengthy illness. Madge was born in 1947 in Alberttown, Guyana, and raised ...
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