Ghanaian news january 2018

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Year in Review 2017 40 Years of Black History Month Compiled by Jonathan Baah Annobil, Toronto

January 2017 • Nana Akufo-Addo assumes office as the 5thPresident of the Republic of Ghana • Donald Trump sworn in as 45th President of the United States of America • Watoto Children Choir from Uganda visited Living Word Assembly of God Church in Toronto • TransCanada makes new application to US State Department for the Keystone pipeline. • Living Word Assembly of God launches Global University Learning Centre. • Premier Wynne rejects road tolls for Toronto; Mayor Tory calls decision “paternalistic and shortsighted”. • H.E. Dr. SulleyGariba, outgoing Ghana High Commissioner bids farewell to Canada and also briefs leaders of the Toronto Ghanaian community after elections in Ghana.

February 2017 • Ghana launches new Agricultural campaign: Planting for food and jobs with Canada promising $125m support

By Rosemary Sadlier OOnt. and Past President Ontario Black History Society

While I was not one of the founders of the Ontario Black History Society, my 22 years of public service to the OBHS helped to outreach to the broader community. I worked tirelessly, prior to and following being elected as the President, to provide Black History presentations in schools - in my first year alone doing over 100 and raising significant funds for the organization as a result. I was standing on the shoulders of the founders who had created the OBHS in 1978, and who by 1979, had secured the first proclamation in Canada - the City of Toronto Black History Month proclamation in 1979. [The Founders of the OBHS included Dr. Daneil G. Hill, Donna Hill, Wilson O. Brooks, Lorraine Hubbard and Joan Kazmarski.]

Daughter of Wilson O Brooks and Joan Kazmarski My formal connection to the OBHS did not begin until my third child was born and I found myself an ‘at home mom’ with more daytime flexibility than many of the other board members in 1993. I used my time to help to outreach to

people, organizations and church groups. I secured our first ‘mainstream’ media involvements with CBC Radio and CITYtv. I secured our first corporate sponsor, TD Bank, and now note how many other Black History Month cont’d on pg. 9

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• Living Word Assembly of God celebrated Family Day with Breakfast meeting at Toronto Plaza Hotel. • Prime Minister Trudeau hosted the annual reception at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec for National Black History Month Canada 2017. • Canada’s population surpasses 35 million according to 2016 census. • President Akufo-Addo delivered his first State of the Nation Address to Parliament. • Olivia Nuamah named as Executive Director of Pride Toronto. • Ghanalinx Foundation donates to Gomoa Soccer for Change in Ghana. cont’d on pg. 22

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