Pride News Canada's Leader In African Canadian & Caribbean News, Views & Lifestyle

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – The education of Caribbean and Black students in the diaspora was the focus of the second annual community town hall forum, Network Caribbean: Engaging the Diaspora – Enriching the Caribbean, organized ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Outcry against the kidnapping of 234 Nigerian girls about three weeks ago reached a crescendo this past weekend when groups in cities around the world, including two here in Toronto, held ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados CMC – The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) says an investment symposium connecting Caribbean business leaders with Canadian investors and lenders has been added to the program of activities for Caribbean Week Toronto to be held in June. ...

By Dr. Peter Sealy Pride Guest Columnist Incarceration is destabilizing the mental health of African Canadians. The mental health intervention for incarcerated African Canadians, if any, is typically done in a way to control rather than comprehensive treatment. Antipsychotic drugs ...

By Dwain Wellington Rattray Pride Contributing Editor TORONTO, Ontario – When, in the course of human events, we experience adversity, hate and injustice, some recline into a state of perpetual despair or fetid mistrust of ‘the system’ that’s seen as ...

By Dwain Wellington Rattray Pride Contributing Editor TORONTO, Ontario – For more than three decades, the Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA) has hosted the annual Harry Jerome Awards (HJA), which celebrates excellence and seeks to inspire its community. In ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – The SickKids-Caribbean Initiative recently got a boost with the donation of a cheque of $10,000 from one hundred Jamaicans in Toronto. The project works with stakeholders across the English-speaking Caribbean to ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Veteran politician, Trinidad-born Dr. Hedy Fry, Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre was one of three individuals to receive a luminary award from the University of the West Indies at its ...

Symposium, gallery on Africa to examine issues of representation  By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – The Royal Ontario Museum celebrated its 100th birthday last week with an announcement of plans for four legacy projects that will transform ...

TORONTO, Ontario – Two-time Olympian (Field Hockey) and two-time Pan American medallist, Sandra Levy, has been named as the Chef de Mission for the Canadian Team competing at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, the Canadian Olympic ...