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MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, July 12, (CMC) – Custom officers at Pearson International Airport seized approximately 19 kilograms of cocaine, hidden under a pile of hot peppers, in a cargo plane, coming from Trinidad and Tobago, late last month. The Canada Border ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario, July 11, (PRIDE) — Black Lives Matter – Toronto remains resolute in its nine demands to Pride Toronto, organizer of the annual Pride festival, which were presented by the group, during a ...

TORONTO, Ontario, July 6, (CMC) – Nevis Premier, Vance Amory, was discharged from a hospital in Toronto, after undergoing treatment and observation, according to an official St. Kitts-Nevis government statement issued today. It said that Amory, a Senior Minister and ...

TORONTO, Ontario, July 6 (PRIDE) — Ontario is set to launch community meetings across the province, to engage with the public and organizations on addressing systemic racism and eliminating barriers for Indigenous and racialized communities. Michael Coteau, Minister Responsible for ...

TORONTO, Ontario July 6, (PRIDE) — The Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority (ABTA) has appointed Colin Skerritt as its Director of Tourism for Canada, effective yesterday. In a media release, the ABTA said this “newly created role affirms the twin-island ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 28, (CMC) – Approximately 15,000 Jamaicans have been employed in Canada and the United States, under the Overseas Employment Program, during the fiscal year 2015-16, Jamaica’s Labour and Social Security Minister, Shahine Robinson, has said. She told ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — Austin Ardinel Chesterfield (“Tom”) Clarke, 81, a doyen of Canadian literature, is being remembered as a multifaceted, complicated essayist, novelist, short story writer, civil rights activist, former journalist, diplomat, professor and ...

TORONTO, Ontario — Ambassador, humanitarian, missionary, evangelist, minister, international gospel singer, are some of the adjectives that describe Canadian philanthropist, Kay Morris. Through the Kay Morris Foundation, last month, she visited Nairobi and Massailand Kenya where she donated toiletries to ...

TORONTO, Ontario, June 23 –– Sunrise Talent Development Program Inc. (STDP), the non-profit entity that organises the annual Jamaica Day Cultural and Music Fest, has cancelled the popular community event for 2016. STDP, which has been annually presenting the venerable ...

By Lincoln Depradine PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — A new publication, anthologizing the success of African-Canadian women, has been hailed by provincial and national leaders, including the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and the Prime Minister of Canada. “100 Accomplished ...