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By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Officials of George’s University (SGU) in Grenada are continuing an active campaign to recruit more Canadian students to the university. SGU representatives have been making regular visits to Canada, including the ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – The theme of community was constantly heard throughout the evening at the 29th annual African Canadian Achievement Awards (ACAA) held at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto on ...

By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Grenada is expected to soon announce the name of a new permanent consul general to Toronto, informed sources have said. Patricia Clarke was transferred a few months ago from her post ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – A Jamaican Canadian woman who urgently needs a stem cell transplant is urging the Jamaican/Caribbean community, especially young men (women not excluded) between the ages of 17 and 35 to become ...

TORONTO, Canada CMC – A Canadian businessman who was serving a lengthy prison sentence in Cuba for corruption has been abruptly expelled, bringing to an end an ordeal in which he was first held without charges and then sentenced to ...

OTTAWA, Canada CMC – The Public Health Agency of Canada has issued a public health notice to nationals travelling to the Caribbean in the wake of the outbreak of the chikungunya virus. “The Public Health Agency of Canada recommends that ...

By Lincoln Depradine Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — Herb Carnegie, appropriately described as “one of the best ever players to never play pro-league hockey”, during the 1940s and 1950s when Blacks were barred from playing in the National Hockey ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – Historian, Afua Cooper, says the history of slavery can be used for empowerment but acknowledged that some people want to engage in historical amnesia because they are uncomfortable about the past. ...

By Neil Armstrong Pride Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario – The organizing committee of the TORONTO 2015 Pan American/Parapan American Games (TO2015) is getting set to announce in April a massive recruitment of 20,000 volunteers for the event. Saäd Rafi, the ...

TORONTO, Ontario – If religion is meant to heal the soul, then Peter Fenty has been a dedicated practitioner long before he was consecrated Bishop on June 22, last year, in St. James Cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. ...