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Today marks the 30th wedding anniversary of Pride News Magazine’s Publisher/Editor Michael Van Cooten and his wife, Donna. They met on September 18, 1981 and the rest was history. They married on June 21, 1986 surrounded by loved ones. Happy ...

June 21, will be a particular meaningful day, especially given the federal government’s recent promise to implement the Truth and Reconciliations Commission’s 94 recommendations, launching the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls public inquiry and commitment to renewing the ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer When the call went out for people in Orlando, Florida to donate blood to help the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting carried out by Omar Mateen at Pulse, a gay nightclub, many formed lines ...

By Jordan Maxwell PRIDE Contributing Writer An expecting mother is in an emergency situation, dealing with a breech birth that was coming too early in the back of a 2011 Chevrolet Silverado in Kite, Georgia. Enter Letisha Ghanbari, an emergency ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer Adaoma Patterson, the new president of the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA), is committed to leadership, advocacy, engaging members and the community, and has plans for a legacy project, among other things. She has given herself ...

At the May 31 convocation for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto (U of T), Asians and Caucasians dominated the field of graduates and newly accredited doctors. But, among the more than 340 students, who also included ...

Debbie Thompson and Jason Carrington of the GTA, need your help to win their wedding in the Bahamas. This lucky duo is one of 20 couples chosen to be finalists in the bahamas16weddings.com contest.  Selected from hundreds of entries from ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer The Jamaica Stock Exchange took its international roadshow and knowledge exchange visit to Toronto last week – the third in its stop after London and New York – where it met with Jamaicans in the diaspora ...

By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer Dr. Carl James has been appointed the new Jean Augustine Chair in Education for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2016. The announcement was made on May 16 to faculty members in an email from ...

By Aruna Dutt IPS UN Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New York May 20 (IPS) – While Canada’s long-awaited support for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples brought hope and celebration last week, it’s not yet clear whether the ...