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By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Columnist By failing to be systemically aware, the Quebec Human Rights Commission has failed to see and understand the bigger picture of race. There can be no real serious talk, or discourse, about the biggest human ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario November 9, 2016 — A campaign to establish a national registry for immigrant children to Canada, dubbed the ‘Melonie Memento,’ was recently launched in Toronto. An initiative of Councillor Michael Thompson, it ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer OTTAWA, Ontario November 3, 2016 — African Canadian workers attending a recently held conference organized by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) in Ottawa addressed the pressing issue of anti-black racism within the labour movement. ...

By Mark Brown PRIDE Columnist OTTAWA, Ontario November 3, 2016 — Ottawa hotels quickly sold out as hundreds of labour and community activists, from across Canada, converged on the nation’s capital for the Canadian Labour Congress’s (CLC) 2016 human rights ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer MISSISSAUGA, Peel November 2, 2016 — The Peel District School Board (PDSB) is acting on a recently released report on the challenges facing black male students in its schools. It is planning to hold ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario October 26, 2016 — In response to an urgent request for a keyboard from its alma mater, last month, the Central High School Alumni Association of Guyana (Canada)-Toronto Chapter (CHAAG) purchased the ...

OTTAWA / GENEVA  October 21, 2016 – The United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, today, expressed serious concerns about systemic anti-Black racism in the criminal justice system in Canada. “There is clear evidence that racial ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario October 13, 2016 — Several LGBTQ refugee protection claimants from the Caribbean, Africa and elsewhere, who have been in Canada since 2011 and 2012, feel that their lives are at standstill because ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario October 4, 2016 (PRIDE) — An initiative of two African Canadian lawyers, in partnership with Pro Bono Ontario (PBO), to assist Black-owned enterprises, through a business law clinic, is creating a favourable ...

By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario September 19, 2016 – The Prime Minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart, will be the featured speaker at the 9th Annual Errol Barrow Memorial Dinner, which is being held in Markham, this Saturday. ...