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		<title>African Cultural Winter Celebration 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jenny Francis The Afro News Burnaby An important community event took place at Eastburn Community Centre in Burnaby on 12 December 2009. The 3rd annual African Cultural Winter Celebration, hosted by REACH Multicultural Family Center (MFC) brought together approximately two hundred people from all over the world. Following prayers in Arabic and English, guests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TAN Facing Forward-A Life Long on Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Helena Kaufman The Afro News Vancouver In the midst of a book detailing the life journey of a Canadian woman from girlhood to unexpected gratification, lies a formula for happiness. It is nestled in the chapters of “Pinch Me, A Long Walk From Home”, a first volume of stories by author Beth Rowles Scott. Extraordinarily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging African development thinking Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPECIAL INTERVIEW (Part 3)   Development/Africa Kofi Akosah-Sarpong continues his discussions with Prof. George Ayittey on his argument that US President Barack Obama’s Accra proclamation that Africa’s future is in Africans hands is an “intellectual vindication” for the “Internalist School” of African development Q. Did the “Internalist School” demonstrate that African intellectuals have finally come out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wyclef Jean to promote Western Union Money Transfer</title>
		<link>http://www.theafronews.ca/2009/12/11/1814/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Western Union Company A leader in the money transfer segment of global payments, officially began its holiday season today by announcing a strategic alliance with multi-platinum Grammy-Award winning international recording artist Wyclef Jean to promote Western Union Money Transfer® to consumers. Western Union’s relationship with Wyclef will be multi-faceted and will include outreach through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think Globally: Changing Population, Environment and Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Frank T. Scruggs  M.A.Ph.D. The Afro News USA International When venturing away from one’s own city, town or village a keen sense of the vastness of the African Diaspora becomes apparent. Even more people of African descent populate our planet when serious consideration is given to Keith O. Hilton’s TALO theory which explores the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essay/Ghana/Africa Koku Anyidoho and the anatomy of hate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong The Afro News International Koku Anyidoho, the director of communications at President John Atta Mills’ Osu Castle, says he hates ex-President John Kufour’s face more than any other person in Ghana. “I don&#8217;t like his face, so I don&#8217;t want to hear anything about him.” That’s disturbing from a high profile government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout freed</title>
		<link>http://www.theafronews.ca/2009/11/30/1761/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CTV.ca News Staff Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout has been freed in Somalia after 15 months in captivity, along with Australian photographer Nigel Brennan. In a telephone interview from Mogadishu on Wednesday afternoon, Lindhout told CTV News Channel that she had only been freed for a few hours and provided minimal details on the process that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk show Queen Oprah Winfrey makes the tearful announcement</title>
		<link>http://www.theafronews.ca/2009/11/20/1752/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oprah Winfrey makes the tearful announcement A tearful Oprah Winfrey has announced her talk show will end in September 2011 after 25 years on the air. Speaking to her live studio audience, the chat show queen said she had decided to end the show &#8220;after much prayer and months of careful thought&#8221;.  &#8220;I love this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical Tribute to Lincoln Alexander – First Step Towards  New Jazz Space</title>
		<link>http://www.theafronews.ca/2009/11/20/1749/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By michelle-lee The Afro News Toronto The Jazz Performance &#38; Education Centre, recently obtained charitable status and held its first fundraising gala October 2nd. The event, held at Glenn Gould Theatre, was a $250.00 per person musical tribute to former Ontario Lieutenant Governor Lincoln Alexander. Alexander is an honorary co-chair of the organization with Ontario [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TPS Conference on Racial Profiling Applauded.</title>
		<link>http://www.theafronews.ca/2009/11/18/1743/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Afro News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By michelle-lee The Afro News Ontario The Toronto Police Service (TPS) hosted a one day conference titled “Racially Biased Policing: Trends and Progressive Solutions”. Attending the conference were more than 250 officers from 25 services across Ontario. The keynote speaker was Deputy Chief Keith Forde who prefaced his address by saying that he hoped officers [...]]]></description>
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