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Canada Funds Facility That Benefits Caribbean Countries

Canada Funds Facility That Benefits Caribbean Countries

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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Toronto City Council Backs Plan To Review SIU

Toronto City Council Backs Plan To Review SIU

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. ...

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BBPA Announces 2016 Harry Jerome Award Recipients

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 ...

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Refugee Rights Day Reading

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 ...

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Women Over Forty Honoured And Celebrated

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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