Photo above shows Hon. Dr. Jean Augustine, right, receiving her award from Nicole Crellin, Director of Youth for Human Rights International’s Toronto chapter. Photo courtesy of YHRI-Toronto. By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario — Ontario’s first Fairness Commissioner, ...
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The photo above is of Arnold A. Auguste. Photo courtesy of Share newspaper. TORONTO, Ontario — Trinidad-born Arnold A. Auguste, the Founder, Publisher and Senior Editor of Share Newspaper, will be honoured with an African Canadian Achievement Awards of Excellence ...
Read More »African-Canadians Unite To Fight HIV On February 7
OTTAWA, Ontario – Canada’s second African, Caribbean and Black Canadian HIV/AIDS Awareness Day will take place on Sunday, February 7, 2016. The day will raise awareness that the risk of HIV infection among African, Caribbean and Black Canadians is higher ...
Read More »Documentary Features Successful African Canadian Entrepreneur
Photo above is of Wes Hall, a prominent business leader, who was recently named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Business People by Canadian Business magazine. By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — The Toronto Black Film Festival (TBFF) ...
Read More »Pride News Magazine Publisher’s Mother Passes On
COBOURG, Ontario — Last Thursday night, at about 10 minutes before midnight, Matilda Elma Van Cooten, 98, died, peacefully, in her sleep, of natural causes. She lived at the Streamway Villa nursing home in Cobourg, Ontario, at the time of ...
Read More »TD Bank Unveils Signature Black History Month Events
Photo above is a group shot from the TD Black History Month Series Launch Media Day: Left to right — Alan Convery of TD; Wondagurl from Wondagurl Beats; Fabienne Colas from the Toronto Black Film Festival; Jully Black, R&B Songstress; Entertainer, ...
Read More »Olympian Charmaine Crooks To Receive Ontario Black History Society Award
TORONTO, Ontario – Five-time Olympian, Charmaine Crooks, a Member of the Order of Canada, Olympic silver medalist and the flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Summer Games, will receive the Ontario Black History Society (OBHS) and ...
Read More »Canada Providing Funds For Guyana’s Local Government Polls
GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – Canada, on Monday, signed an agreement with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), providing CDN$20,000 (One Canada dollar = US$0.68 cents) for purchasing equipment to be used in the local government elections, last held here on August ...
Read More »African Canadian Plays Major Role In Canada’s Historic Discovery
Photo above: LCdr Paul Smith, right, pictured receiving his EREBUS Coin from RAdm. John Newton. Photo by Master Corporal Holly Swaine. By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer In summer 2014, when then Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, announced, while on the ...
Read More »Professor Solicits Help In Research Of Jamaican Soldiers In Halifax 100 Years Ago
Photo above is of Associate Professor, Hyacinth Simpson. By Neil Armstrong PRIDE Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — This year marks the 100th anniversary of the “Halifax incident” which took place in Nova Scotia and a Ryerson University professor is soliciting ...
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