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By Sharmon Carrington PRIDE Contributing Writer AJAX-PICKERING, Durham August 30, 2017 — Since its establishment in March 1996, the Ajax/Pickering chapter of the Congress of Black Women of Canada (CBWC) has been making diverse contributions to the Ajax/Pickering community, with ...

By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist The backlash was swift, and seemingly devoid of thought. The Hudson Bay Company quickly removed, from its downtown Montreal store, a plaque initially erected in 1957 and dedicated to Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, a rich ...

QUEBEC, Canada, August 23, 2017 (CMC) — On Monday, Canada said it was aware of a new plan by Haitians, seeking to enter the country from their homeland, using the United States as a brief stopover. The Canadian authorities said ...

By Mark Brown PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario, August 17, 2017 — On May 17, 1882, Albert Jackson was appointed by the federal government to the position of letter carrier, making him Toronto’s, and possibly Canada’s, first Black postman. Jackson ...

MONTREAL, Canada, August 9, 2017 (CMC) – Haiti says it is prepared to accept its nationals if they are not accepted by Canada, as two ministers, including Foreign Affairs, Minister Antonio Rodrigue, arrived here for talks with Canadian officials, following ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica August 2, 2017 (PRIDE) — Lamenting that young Jamaicans have never experienced economic growth in their lifetime, Chairman of the Economic Growth Council (ECG), Michael Lee Chin, last week Tuesday, emphasised that the ECG is focused on building ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor KINGSTON, Jamaica July 28, 2017 — It came as no surprise that a country so steeped in religion — a country that boasts the reputation as having the world’s highest number of churches, per ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario June 27, 2017 — Luther Brown, principal of the Africentric Alternative School (AAS) in Toronto, has been in that role since February 1, and he describes it as being a good experience. “The ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario June 24, 2017 — In aiming to expand the talent pool of black leaders in government at the municipal, provincial and federal levels, Operation Black Vote Canada (OBVC), a non-profit and non-partisan organization, ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario May 29, 2017 (PRIDE) — Ontario’s Education Minister, Mitzie Hunter, says the new OHIP+: Children and Youth Pharmacare Program, which starts in January 2018, is one of the most exciting aspects of ...