By Mario Osava IPS Correspondent RESSACA, Brazil, April 7, 2017 (IPS) — The decline of this town is seen in the rundown houses and shuttered stores, and the few people along the streets on a Sunday, when the scorching sun ...
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OTTAWA, Canada April 6, 2017 (PRIDE) — Canada’s unions are celebrating the recent announcement that the federal government will finally ban asbestos in Canada. On December 15, last year, the Canadian government announced that it “will work with the health, ...
Read More »Secret Companies Allow Corrupt Cash To Flood Key Real Estate Market In Vancouver, Canada
By IPS World Desk ROME/BERLIN, April 1, 2017 (IPS) — The governments of Canada, the UK, Australia and the US need to close glaring legal loopholes to prevent the corrupt elite from laundering the proceeds of grand corruption in their ...
Read More »Former South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu And Justice Michael Tulloch To Receive UWI Awards
By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario March 30, 2017 – Renowned Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa, Desmond Mpilo Tutu, and Justice Michael H. Tulloch, a prominent judge of the Ontario Appeal Court, will be honoured this ...
Read More »Citizenship Critical To Estate Planning For Jamaicans In Diaspora
BRAMPTON, Ontario March 28, 2017 — Omar’s desire to ensure that he has all the documents he needs to prove his Jamaican citizenship goes beyond mere nostalgia and his need to maintain a cultural tie to his country of birth. ...
Read More »Canadian Delegation Not Attending The 2017 Jamaica 55 And Diaspora Conference
The statement, below, was issued, today (Tuesday, March 28, 2017), by the Board of Directors of the Jamaica Diaspora Canada Foundation, explaining its reasons for opting out of the Jamaica Diaspora Conference this year. It is with great disappointment and ...
Read More »Medical School Launches Program To Increase Enrolment Of Black Students
By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario March 21, 2017 — The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto has introduced an initiative to address the chronically low numbers of black students who attend its medical school. Earlier ...
Read More »Souvenir Book Commemorating Barbados’ 50th. Independence Anniversary Launched
By Michael L. Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor PICKERING, Ontario March 16, 2017 — Amid an ambiance of national pride and conviviality, about 100 of the Who’s Who of Barbados’ Canadian Diaspora, and other guests, bore witness to the official Canadian ...
Read More »Former Senior Justice Gregory Regis Joins Ryerson University As Distinguished Visiting Professor
By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario March 15, 2017 — St. Lucia-born Justice Gregory Regis, a former Regional Senior Judge with the Ontario Court of Justice, was recently appointed as distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson University, for one ...
Read More »Mrs. Elaine Esther Williams Passes On, Peacefully
TORONTO, Ontario March 14, 2017 — Mrs. Elaine Esther Williams (nee Fung), passed away, peacefully, in her 85th year, while surrounded by family, last Friday. Guyana-born Williams — along with one of her sons, popular auto mechanic Alfred Williams — ...
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