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Written by The African and Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS in Ontario (ACCHO) In Ontario, African, Caribbean and Black communities are disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS. While living with HIV is no longer a death sentence because of the availability of highly ...

TORONTO, Ontario, November 30, 2017 – Do children show implicit racial preferences from an early age? According to new research from York University’s Faculty of Health, they do. In three separate studies, with over 350 five to 12-year-old White children, ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, November 15, 2017 — Last Sunday afternoon, New Haven Funeral Centre Inc. was launched in grand style, with a two-day opening ceremony that saw over 300 guests fill a mammoth tent, set ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario, November 13, 2017 (PRIDE) — Black people in Canada’s largest city are dying as a result of the opioid crisis gripping Toronto, but no one seems to know how many because that ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 9, 2017 (CMC) – Canada has confirmed its participation in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-United Nations donors conference, for CARICOM countries devastated by the recent Hurricanes, Irma and Maria. The conference will be held at the United Nations ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, November 3, 2017 (CMC) – Prisoner officers in Trinidad and Tobago are seeking asylum in Canada, citing fears over their personal safety, following the murder of at least two officers in recent weeks, “Prison ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario November 2, 2017 — A recent flare-up of gun violence in North Etobicoke, has resulted in more than 300 Somali-Canadians attending a town hall meeting with politicians of the municipal, provincial and ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario, November 1, 2017 — Toronto councillor, Michael Thompson, says a lot of cool things are happening in the city and Black Canadians must want to be a part of it. He is encouraging ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario, October 31, 2017 — The 34-year-old Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA) has a new president at its helm, who plans to grow the organization as much as possible. Nadine Spencer and ...

CANADA, October 25, 2017 — Imagine a robot capable of making roti in a fraction of the time it takes a person. After a successful run in Singapore and the United States, Rotimatic — manufactured and marketed by Zimplistic Inventions ...