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By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario March 14, 2017 (PRIDE) — Several African Canadian organizations are lauding the provincial government for “A Better Way Forward:” Ontario’s Three-Year Anti-Racism Strategic Plan, which was announced, last Tuesday, by Michael Coteau, ...

By Nicole Best CMC Correspondent MONTREAL, Canada, March 7, 2017 (CMC) – The fifth Regional Platform for disaster risk reduction in the Americas began here, yesterday, with the United Nations reiterating a call for the reduction of greenhouse gases that ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario March 8, 2017 — In celebration of the strength of Black women, Ryerson University presented four awards and a bursary to five women at its 9th annual Viola Desmond Day awards ceremony on ...

By Steven Fouchard Contributing Writer OTTAWA, Ontario March 8, 2017 — Jamaica-born, Sergeant (Retired) Joan Buchanan, who joined the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) in 1987 and was assigned as a Resource Management Systems (RMS) clerk, has many memorable moments to ...

UNITED NATIONS, New York March 6, 2017 (CMC) – The United Nations office dedicated to disaster risk reduction, today, called for urgent support to improve disaster risk management in Haiti, following a damage assessment that shows the country lost US$2.7 ...

TORONTO, Ontario March 6, 2017 — Last year, on December 7, a court in Toronto convicted one of the shooters from the 2012 Danzig tragedy. He was 17 at the time he pulled the trigger, and the incident sparked a ...

By Sharmon Carrington PRIDE Contributing Writer AJAX, Ontario March 3, 2017 — Hard working, ambitious and an exemplary leader, Chauntae De Gannes, a first year Political Science and Sociology student of Queens University, has been selected by The Adjudication Committee ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario Friday, March 3, 2017 — An exhibition, featuring artifacts found during an archaeological dig of the new Toronto courthouse site in 2015, and which unearths the history of the Black community in ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario Wednesday, March 1, 2017 — The 33rd annual African Canadian Achievement Awards (ACAA) of excellence was the centre of pride, acknowledgement of success, and inspiring thank you speeches, complemented by some brilliant ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario Tuesday, February 28, 2017 — Thirty Grade 12 students across the country have been presented scholarships, ranging from $500 to $5,000, by Canada’s largest bank, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), in its ...