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NASHVILLE, Tennessee January 29, 2018 (CMC) – A leading university, here, has found that climate change concerns are much higher in Latin America and the Caribbean than in Canada and the United States. According to a new “Insights” report from ...

Early last month, Pridenews online ran a story on Dr. Beverly-Jean Daniel, who founded and developed The Bridge, a phenomenally-successful student engagement and retention program that is aimed at increasing the engagement, retention and graduation rates of African/Black/Caribbean students enrolled ...

PICKERING, Ontario January 24, 2017 — Linda Berle Abrahams (nee Cumberbatch), 74, passed away, in the comfort of her home. Following a period of illness, during which, for a while, she was cared for at home by husband of 48 ...

By Roberta K. Timothy Guest Writer The world my children live in is divided in two, as Frantz Fanon wrote in 1952 in The Wretched of the Earth. It is a world divided in endless opposites, a world still pained by ...

By Yvonne Sam Social & Political Commentator New Year has joined the list of things that are gradually becoming objects of derision and contempt among many people. These New Year pessimists reason that if a person has not been sufficiently ...

By Mitzie Hunter, MPP Minister of Education TORONTO, Ontario January 12, 2018 — People across Ontario have started the New Year with a higher minimum wage and free prescription medications for everyone, aged 24 and under. Ontario’s economy is booming. ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario, December 13, 2017 — In a vote, on December 1 at the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC), benchers defeated a motion that would have provided lawyers an exemption from the statement ...

By Shiren Van Cooten PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario December 6, 2017 — In January of this year, Canadian Scholars’ Press published a revealing anthology, Diversity, Justice and Community: The Canadian Context, that was edited by Dr. Beverly-Jean Daniel, a ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario, December 6, 2017 — The Black Action Defense Committee (BADC) and Jamaica Canadian Association (JCA) have welcomed the recently announced proposed changes to police oversight in Ontario. Last month, Marie-France Lalonde, Minister ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, December 4, 2017 — Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport says she is very excited by the prospect of an ice arena being established in Jamaica, for the sport of ice hockey to be ...