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By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor   TORONTO, Ontario — Prominent Guyana-born social science scholar, Professor Emeritus Dr. Wolseley (Percy) Anderson, passed on “as he lived — on his own terms and not without a fight” — on Sunday, May ...

Photo above is of Pauline Christian and Defence Minister Jason Kenny at the HJA gala. Photo by Eddie Grant. By Michael Van Cooten Pride Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario – The Canadian government — if re-elected — will name one of its new ...

Photo above is of local soccer star, Dwayne De Rosario, left, and a fan. By Lekan Afolabi Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – It might be said that having the Pan Am Games in Toronto is very fitting because it ...

Photo above: Newly appointed Toronto police chief, Mark Saunders (second from right), poses with Pauline Christian, president of the BBPA (second from left), and two guests. Photo by Kelvin Kellman. By Michael Van Cooten Pride Publisher/Editor  TORONTO, Ontario – Even ...

Photo above is of Beverly Nicholson-Doty, Commissioner of Tourism, United States Virgin Islands. By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Beverly Nicholson-Doty, Commissioner of Tourism, United States Virgin Islands, wants visitors to her homeland to “lean back and lean ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network recently held a free public screening of The Abominable Crime, an award-winning documentary by Micah Fink about homophobia in Jamaica. In June it will be launching a ...

TORONTO, Ontario – With the clock ticking and just 74 days to go until the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games officially open, Team Jamaica is making final preparations for their visit to Toronto this July. Jamaica House Toronto will be ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – The next chief of the Toronto Police Service, Deputy Chief Mark Saunders — the city’s first Black police chief — says he is willing to meet with groups that have issues ...

Photo above: APNU-AFC candidates, Moses Nagamootoo, left, and David Granger — wearing garlands of flowers — are greeted by supporters and local media executive, Tony McWatt, right. Photo by John O’Dell, who also sang a rendition of Frank Sinatra’s “My ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Several pressing issues impacting the Black community are on the agenda of the upcoming 2nd African Canadian Summit, which will be held under the theme, “Critical Crossroad and the Crisis in ...