WASHINGTON, DC Apr 3, CMC – Caribbean countries are to benefit from a CAN$20 million Canadian Extractive Sector Facility (CANEF) that is being established at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The bank said that the Canadian government is providing the ...
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By Jordan Maxwell PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — In a motion tabled by Ward 19 councillor Mike Layton, Toronto City Council unanimously backed a plan to review the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) as lawmakers and activists call for reform. ...
Read More »High Tech Program Providing Video Game And Web Design Skills To Black Youth
By Jordan Maxwell PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — A 14-week program, designed to provide video game and web design skills to Black youth in Rexdale, is reaching a new plateau as the group has recently raised more than $7,000 ...
Read More »Canadian Singer, Bryan Adams Helps Launch Fund In St. Vincent
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Apr. 1, (CMC) – The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Preservation Fund has been launched here, with Canadain singer-songwriter, Bryan Adams, who has been living in Mustique since 2002, serving on its Board of ...
Read More »Ryerson University Exhibition About US Civil Rights Movement Shines Light On Present Struggle In Canada
By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — A photographic exhibition at Ryerson University, capturing the era of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, is resonating here in Toronto, in the wake of the ongoing protest by ...
Read More »BBPA Announces 2016 Harry Jerome Award Recipients
TORONTO, Ontario, March 29 — The Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA), the venerable organisation that, for the last 34 years, has organised the Annual Harry Jerome Awards (HJA), today, announced the 2016 recipients of its prestigious Award, at a ...
Read More »African Canadians Are Canada’s Fastest Growing Prison Population, Says Prison Watchdog
TORONTO, Ontario — The Office of the Correctional Investigator tabled in Parliament, on Thursday, March 10, its Annual Report for 2014-2015 that reveals that, overall, African Canadians are the fastest growing inmate population within Canada’s federal prisons. In his report, ...
Read More »Refugee Rights Day Reading
(NC) — To mark Refugee Rights Day, the Amnesty Book Club is hosting a special novel this month: The Illegal by Lawrence Hill. The novel is the CBC Canada Reads 2016 champion and will be featured on Hill’s own book tour that coincided ...
Read More »Bas Balkissoon, Trinidad-born Liberal MPP, Resigns Suddenly
TORONTO, Ontario — Personable, veteran Liberal MPP, Bas Balkissoon, resigned — suddenly — his seat in the Ontario legislature, without explanation on Tuesday, March 22. “Today, Bas Balkissoon advised me of his resignation and that he is stepping down as ...
Read More »Women Over Forty Honoured And Celebrated
HAMILTON, Ontario — The first Absolutely Fabulous Women Over Forty Awards (AFW), celebrating and honouring women over 40-years-of-age for their remarkable achievements and contributions to the communities they live in, was, according to its organiser, “a fabulous success”. Founded by ...
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