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Southern Ghana Asafo Flags and Artifacts on Exhibition at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto

By Jonathan Baah Annobil and Joe Kingsley Eyiah, Toronto

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) on 100 Queen’s Park in Toronto was the venue for the opening of glamorous exhibition of traditional Asafo flags and artifacts from Ghana dubbed ‘ Art, Honour, and Ridicule : Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana.’ It was a project which took over 3 years to come to fruition according to Silvia Forni who went to Ghana to do the research and collections. Silvia is a, Curator of Anthropology African Arts and Cultures in the Department of World Cultures at ROM. On the bright Sunday afternoon of September 18, 2016 many Ghanaian chiefs and Queen Mothers from our community decked in their colorful kente costumes with their entourage trooped in their numbers to participate in cont’d on pg. 33

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Minister Jaczek’s Decision to Close Zipporah tops all, as Miss Ghanaian Canadian comes off Sheltered Workshop: mis-guided

By Edmund Agbeko and Jonathan Baah Annobil, Vaughan, ON

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It was all joy for eighteen year old Miss Zipporah P re mpeh at the end of the Miss Ghanaian Canadian beauty pageant, at the City Play House Theatre in Vaughan, Ontario, where she was deservedly crowned the beauty queen of the night, by putting up attentiongrabbing performances to be named Miss Ghanaian Canadian 2016. The colourful event which was hosted by MC Hilly and MC Ebone, ended up with Zipporah Prempeh beating six [6] other beautiful contestants to cont’d on pg. 33

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There is rising opposition to the Ontario Government’s autocratic plan to eliminate provincially funded workshops where people with intellectual disabilities do menial tasks for pennies a day.

During recent investigation of the situation, by the Toronto Star, it was reported that many enjoy the social life and a place to go during the day, but miss out on opportunities for real employment and legitimate wages. Itwas also noted that they live on Ontario Disability Support Program benefits of roughly $850 a month. According to critics, those workers do menial labour that provides negligible job training.

Community advocates close to some of the persons associated with sheltered workshops believe closure of the programme could be devastating. The high

handed action by the government is seen as closing the door on some Ontarians who are unable to help themselves. Minister of Community and Social Services Helena Jaczek, in announcing closureof the programme promised to close the workshops to new admissions. “I don’t ever want to see someone who has not been involved in a sheltered workshop move into one,” Jaczek was quoted as saying.

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EDITORIAL Publisher / Editor Emmanuel Ayiku Contributing Editors Dr. Michael Baffoe Joe Kingsley Eyiah Director of Operations Comfort Ayiku Community Reporter Jonathan Annobil Winnipeg Bureau Dr. Michael Baffoe The Ghanaian News Publishes news and comments from the Community, serves Ghanaians across Canada with good source of information is committed to give good community Journalism The Ghanaian News is published in Canada by The Ghanaian News Corporation Editorial Office 2256 Sheppard Ave. Suite 202 Toronto, Ont. M9M 1L7 Tel:(416) 916-3700 Advertising Fax (416) 916-6701 Internet: www.ghanaiannews.ca E-mail: cayiku@gmail.com info@ghanaiannews.ca $1:00 per copy Subscription costs $66.00 for one year. including postage U.S. and foreign subscriptions costs US$120 per year.

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Help Elect and Strengthen the Ghanaian Community Organization in Toronto The Ghanaian Community in Ontario will be electing an Executive Committee for the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Ontario (GCA)) in November 2016. We are compelled to devote our editorial column this month to this important exercise because of what we believe the essential nature of having an umbrella organization for our community in Ontario.

There are hundreds of organizations within our Ghanaian communities across Ontario raging from ethnic-based associations, old School Students’ associations, benevolent societies and Church groups of one form or another.

Each of these organizations and societies serve important purposes for their members and by extension contribute to the community’s well-being. However the presence of all these organizations without a nerve center of an umbrella organization makes the community more fragmented than cohesive.

The activities of these associations and societies are limited and localized to their specific members’ interests. It is therefore very important to have a strong Central Organization that will serve as the umbrella for the whole community.

Such a strong central organization will be the community’s mouthpiece and spokesperson to the larger Provincial and national society.

Over the years the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Ontario (GCAO) has elected various Executive Committees at one time or another to steer the affairs of the organization and to unify the larger Ghanaian-Canadian Community in Ontario. It is sad to note that despite their best efforts, they have achieved very limited success in the areas that they have focused on over the years. We recall the noble efforts of one of the earlier Executive Committees to purchase and own a Community Center for the Community. Much as they tried that effort did not achieve the anticipated result and so many reasons can be advanced for the failure in that direction.

Of equal importance is the urgent need to unify the youth groups, a large segment of our community and the adult population. It is regrettable to note how the youth have been organizing themselves separate from the adult group and during important national days like the Independence and Republic Days, the youth organize their celebrations, which are usually well attended, separately from the community celebration of the adults. This is not a good development.

We call on community members to pay attention to the coming elections for the Executive Committee of the GCAO. We know our community members who have the skills and expertise to achieve tasks that we have outlined above. Please endeavor to vote during the elections for this Executive Committee.

We all have a stake in its success. And once the Executive is elected we will be back again to provide our sound advice to them on how to move the community forward, but top on the agenda should be organizing for a united front…of all community members, youth and adults.

Good luck to all those who have expressed interest in this elections exercise. We also call on community members not to adopt any apathy towards this exercise. Our community’s fortunes depend on a strong umbrella organization. We will be watching and waiting.

Consul General urges Ghanaians to hold peaceful elections

By Edmund Agbeko, Toronto

The Consul General of Ghana in Toronto, Honourable John Bosco Dery-Kpebesani, is urging Ghanaians back home to continue to be the beacon of Africa’s emergent democracy, by holding another peaceful election come December 7th as the country prepares for this year’s Presidential and Parliamentary elections.

The Consul General plea comes after the Electoral Commission of Ghana and the Ghana Police Service identified a number of constituencies as potential violent-prone areas before, during and after the 2016 general Elections.

But in an interview with

the ‘Ghanaian News’ during the Miss Ghanaian Canadian beauty pageant at the City Playhouse Theatre in Vaughan, Hon. John Bosco said, he was extremely positive of the prospects of Ghanaians holding a ‘peaceful election’ come December 7th. He said: “It’s an election year in Ghana but the most momentous thing is for Ghanaians to continue to demonstrate

how peaceful and tolerant we are as a united Nation, irrespective of our political differences and affiliations. Ghana over the years has held peaceful elections and I am very optimistic Ghanaians will hold another peaceful election and also, continue to be the beacon of Africa’s democracy in the world. ” And also in another related development, the Inspector General of the Ghana Police Service, IGP John Kudalor, has assured Ghanaians of a peaceful election by insisting that, the Ghana Police Service will not allow any group or persons to drum up trouble ahead of the December polls in the country.

GCAO Homework in Toronto Resumes. More Volunteers Needed

By Joe Kingsley Eyiah The Homework Club established during last school year at 10 Belfield Road in Toronto by the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Ontario to help students in the Ghanaian community with their home work, especially in Math and Language, has resumed after the summer school break.

Old and new students began registering for the program at the site (Apostles Continuation Church) on Sunday, September 25, 2016.

The program which is run by seasoned Ontario C e r t i f i e d Te a c h e r s , Nurses, youth volunteers and executive members of the GCAO takes place every Sunday

evening from 3pm to 5pm. From time to time, counselling sessions are also organized for the students and parents who bring their children to the program.

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Trudeau, Harper and Chretien gather with leaders to mourn Peres in Jerusalem JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his Liberal and Conservative predecessors and political luminaries from around the world gathered Friday to mourn Shimon Peres — a dreamer and visionary who personified the hope for peace in the Middle East.

“Shimon never saw his dream of peace fulfilled,” Obama said during a heartfelt eulogy. “And yet he did not stop dreaming, and he did not stop working.”

No one in the Canadian delegation was among the speakers at the solemn outdoor ceremony, which took place in sweltering T r u d e a u , j o i n e d early-autumn heat under b y f o r m e r p r i m e a sprawling white tent. ministers Jean Chretien and Stephen Harper, led Former Canadian cabinet a Canadian delegation to m i n i s t e r S t o c k w e l l Jerusalem to attend the D a y a t t e n d e d t h e state funeral for Peres, ceremony and said he who died Wednesday hoped for a day when after suffering a stroke at Israel would realize the age of 93.

Peres’s hope for peace.

Mount Herzl national cemetery was brimming with political giants and dignitaries, including Prince Charles, U.S. President Barack Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who sat in the front row alongside members of the Peres family.

Tr u d e a u s a t b e s i d e Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in the second row of mourners while Harper, Chretien, interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose a n d F o r e i g n A ff a i r s Minister Stephane Dion sat together in the next row.

As the funeral began, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion sent out a tweet that said “Canada has lost a friend, Israel a father. Rest in peace, Shimon.”

Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, held every major office in Israel, including president and prime minister. He personified the history of Israel during a remarkable seven-decade political career and who came to be seen by many as a visionary and symbol of hopes of Mideast peace.

Obama described the unlikely friendship he forged with Peres given their vastly different backgrounds.

“It was so surprising to see the two of us, where we had started, talking together in the White House, meeting here in Israel,” he said. “I think both of us understood that we were here only because in some way we reflected the magnificent story of our nations.”

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He said Peres never tired, never dwelled on the past, and always seemed to have another project in the works.

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“The last of the founding generation is now gone,” he added. “Toda rabah haver yakar,” he said, Hebrew for “thank you so much dear friend.”

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But that won’t apply for anyone on the CRA’s list who have yet to be audited after popping up in the Panama Papers.

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And caught in the middle of yet another failure by the international community are the millions of Syrians who remain in their homes or in refugee camps within their own country.

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the group Syria Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, showed men with open wounds writhing on the bloodsoaked floor of the facility.

“There is no civil defence, there is no first aid. [Assad] destroyed the country and killed many people,” an Aleppo resident named Yousef told the SMART News Agency of Syria, a local media organization.

Starve, bomb, kill Assad and his forces are relying on a strategy in Aleppo that’s worked before, in places such as Homs: starve out a neighbourhood under the control of the opposition; make life unbearable; use

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But as Syrians know all too well, those kinds of accusations by diplomats do nothing to stop the suffering they have lived through.

So, the fighting and the bombing continues.

Peace in Syria ‘an impossible task’: Russia And just a week after a ceasefire that it helped negotiate came to a fiery end with the bombing of a UN aid convoy, Russia’s UN envoy seemed to shut the door to future negotiations, at least in the short term.

“In Syria hundreds of armed groups are being armed, the territory of the country is being bombed indiscriminately and bringing a peace is almost an impossible t a s k n o w, ” V i t a l y Churkin, Russian ambassador to the UN, told the Security Council.

The United States, Canada, European countries and the United Nations agree that a political — not military — solution is needed to end Syria’s civil war. CBC

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Ten busy Toronto intersections to get congestion-easing makeovers Ten of the city’s busiest intersections will be getting improvements, like optimized signal timing and cameras to monitor traffic, in an effort to ease congestion.

“The number one priority for Toronto residents is their ability to move around this city quickly and safely. We’re taking action to keep Toronto moving by targeting some of our most congested intersections in the city,” said Mayor John Tory at a news conference on Monday. “Targeting these intersections with common sense solutions is a lowcost, high-impact initiative to get people moving while ensuring public safety.”

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by Transportation Services using third-party traffic data from apps like Google Maps and Waze. They compared traffic speed during peak morning and afternoon periods against free-flow conditions.

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The east-west green lights at Victoria Park and Finch avenues will also be longer during rush hour.

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Many search warrants are already underway beyond the 85 official audits, but the CRA says it can’t reveal the details of those proceedings because they may compromise the investigation or reveal confidential data.

More scrutiny Last April, Ottawa earmarked an extra $444 million to the CRA’s budget to beef up its tax enforcement division.

The tax agency says it is using part of those funds to hire 100 auditors to look

into “high-risk” potential tax evaders.

It’s all part of Ottawa’s increasing scrutiny on tax cheats.

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Ontario Liberals scrap plans for $3.8 billion in renewable energy projects In another measure to keep hydro bills in check, Ontario is scrapping plans to sign $3.8 billion in contracts for renewable energy like wind and solar, Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault said Tuesday.

The move — which the Progressive Conservatives have been calling for regularly — will keep $2.45 from going on the average homeowner’s monthly hydro bill and halt the building of new wind farms opposed by many rural residents.

we didn’t need it, that’s when I acted,” Thibeault told reporters.

“I’ve been tasked to find ways to bring bills down.”

The Liberal government, which is sagging in the polls and has long faced anger over skyrocketing hydro rates, announced in its throne speech two weeks ago that the 8 per cent provincial tax on electricity will come off bills starting in January.

Thibeault said the decision was made after the province’s electricity planning agency released a report earlier this month saying there was no “urgent need” to procure additional supply.

Many rural homeowners who face high delivery charges for hydro will also see 20 per cent savings, and 1,000 more companies will be able to take advantage of a program that allows them to shift hydro use away from periods of peak demand in return for lower prices.

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Premier Kathleen Wynne

was shadowed by wind farm protesters last week at the International Plowing Match and booed over hydro prices.

Thibeault said renewable energy contracts already signed by the province will still go ahead, which means some wind turbines and other projects will still go ahead.

“Ontario will honour the renewable contracts that have been signed.”

A l s o T u e s d a y, t h e provincial Financial Accountability Office released a report that found households in Toronto and Niagara typically spend the least on home energy costs and confirmed that northern Ontario residents spend the most, with lowincome families facing the highest burden. MSN

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FOCUS For the Love of Math: Helping Our Children Do Mathematics From Joe Kingsley Eyiah, OCT, Brookview MS, Toronto “Understanding and knowing how to do mathematics makes our day-to-daylives easier.

Understanding and using mathematics to make decisions and to take action builds confidence and joy!’

I have been prompted to revisit the issue of the teaching and learning of Mathematics in schools due to reports of poor performance in the Ontario provincial math standard test and the concerns raised over the results of Basic Education Certificate Examination i n G h a n a t h i s y e a r.

According to news reports in Toronto, “Half of all Grade 6 students in Ontario did not meet the provincial math standard this year. Standardized test results for elementary school students released b y t h e P r o v i n c e ’s Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) shows that while reading results are improving math results are getting worse.”Why? Is it lack of love for Math by students, their teachers

and their parents?

Te c h n o l o g y i n t h e teaching of Math as a subject in our schools has become very essential in today’s world. Children are easily attracted to computers and other technological devices which provide games.

Such devices when appropriately guided and directed (supervised) by a trained teacher, are very effective tools for learning. They become useful tools for facilitating learning in the classroom.

They make learning fun!

However, the learning of Mathematics is no fun to many students.

Ask many students from Ghana to Canada and across the world and about seventy percent

of students surveyed would tell you that ‘they hate Mathematics as a subject!’ Why? Even among teachers, you would one say, “Math was not my favorite subject at school. When I was a student I love Math and as a teacher, I love to teach Math.

What is Math?

Math is the most misunderstood subject.

Research confirms that for more than two thousand years, mathematics has been a part of the human search for understanding.

Most discoveries have been promoted by the study of mathematics.

Science has been driven

by Math. Think of the Pythagoras, the Galileo and the Archimedes!

Mathematics is not about answers, it’s about processes. How do we arrive at that answer?

Which steps are followed?

Are there other ways by which we can arrive at the same answer? So Math is more of problem solving.

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learn Math? According to Marian Small (Making Math Meaningful to Canadian Students), “There is a strongly held belief in the mathematics education community that mathematics is best learned when students are actively engaged in constructing their understandings.” I couldn’t agree with Small the more. However, how do students actively engage in bringing about their own understanding if they are not interested in what they are asked to do?

Why is it important for our Children to Learn Mathematics?

Research has shown that math knowledge and skills contribute to a child’s success both at school and in everyday life. If you want to build your child’s confidence in problem solving then help him or her to learn mathematics.

It must be noted that skills in math open doors to a range of jobs and careers. Nowadays, schools are combining the study of math with science, technology and engineering in an area of studies dubbed STEM. STEM leads the student to investigate, think outside the box, gather and organize information which is then used to solve problems L o v e M a t h !

We do what we love doing, right? Loving Math is not just by chance. There may be some few children who are naturally gifted in Mathematics. At school, they score the highest marks in Math and even ‘teach’ their teachers how to do some Math. True!

However, there are many children who we must encourage as parents and teachers to love Math.

Math is everywhere. It is i.n the house, around the dinner table, in the streets, at church, in the stores/malls and in our favorite sports-money, time, distance, capacity, quantity, building, playing and so forth! We ought to arouse the interest of our children in these areas through our daily interactions with them.

Movement is common among children. Many

children love to interact with their friends as we see when they are in the gym for physical education. One of the major problems I find among my students is the constant need to be moving – being active. Many of them have difficulty keeping focused; hence they require frequent change in their activities to sustain their attention.

“Movement in drama offers students an opportunity to explore and express thoughts and feelings through physical action. It can serve to increase the student’s willingness to get involved in drama and to encourage interaction with other members of the group. Further, by allowing the students to work creatively and spontaneously, it can enhance the aesthetic learning experience”.

(David Booth, Story Drama, p. 50) The students love Gym – Why? It is because Gym gives them an opportunity to move.

How can we incorporate this same enthusiasm in other classes? Simple, by including that factor that makes Gym so exciting – movement. My students resent activities that restrict them to a desk with pen and paper most of the time. As teachers, we need to ‘dramatize’ Math in the classroom or engage our students more in group-work during their Math lessons.

P e r s o n a l l y, I t h i n k we need to catch our children young with Math. Think about the quote of Dr. AltafQadeer: “Nobel Laureate of today was an elementary level student one day”.

Numbers are a part of a young child’s life.

The chid is interested to know many, for example, cookies he or she can eat.

So let us make them count!

According to Baroody (2004), a number has four possible meanings: • A number can tell how many • A number can describe a measurement • A number can describe a location (for example, boot 3) • A number can be a name (for example, student 24)

Thus, we create or use ‘interest’ to make children learn Math. The technological devices are useful but the basics are very fundamental to teaching even problem solving in Math. The more we practice Math with our children in our daily activities, the more we create interest in them (extrinsic) to love Math. Make Math fun, bring Math home to the child to engage him or her to create his or her understanding of Math.

As parents and teachers, we need to give the basics in Math to our children through constant practice and provide them tools to solve problems. Then, they would be discovering Math for themselves.

Then, they would love Math as a subject. If you need help to assist your child in learning Math, do not hesitate to do that. Ask and you will be given; seek and you will find (from the computer to the Math teacher). A deeper understanding of mathematics will enable you to let your children explore Math.

As a parent there are many mathematics activities you can do with your child in the strands of number sense and numeration, measurement, geometry and spatial sense, patterning and algebra, as well as data management and probability. For example, numbers are everywhere. You can count with your child number of objects in house and group them like “there are 3 tables and 12 chairs in the house.” Then ask your child to tell how many tables and chairs are there together in the house and also say which of the two objects is more and, by how many counts! The child will be counting and learning addition and subtraction of numbers which are basic to doing mathematics.

There are some internet resources which are helpful for learning math at home. Parents must review such websites and determine their suitability for their children (age and grade): w w w. b r a i n p o p . c o m / math/seeall/ www.kidsites.com/sitesedu/math.htm

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Winning Miss Ghanaian Canadian was beyond important to me - ZIPPORAH

By Edmund Agbeko, Toronto Proud winner of this year’s Miss Ghanaian Canadian beauty pageant, Miss Zipporah Prempeh, in an exclusive interview with the Ghanaian News, says she was the happiest girl in the world when she was adjudged the winner of this year’s pageant at the City Play House Theatre in Vaughan. She said: “It is absolutely amazing to win and I am so excited. I can’t believe it was me. This is beyond words. The numbers kept going down until there were just three of us. It was incredible. There were so many girls who I thought were so beautiful inside and out and we all really wanted it.”

She continued: “Winning

the Miss Ghanaian Canadian pageant was beyond important to me because I am a very goal oriented young woman.

When I put my mind to something, I make sure that I work to the best of my ability to achieve it, and that’s exactly what I did. Winning has also given me the chance to work on a huge platform, which is to start a program to promote self-worth for young girls in my community and it’s something I look forward to. The pageant was an opportunity that I refused to let pass me and because of my dedication, I am here today as Miss Ghanaian Canadian. It has been the most incredible experience I think I will

ever have and I’m so glad I entered now.”

Sharing in her triumph was her dad, King Akwasi Kwarteng who was euphoric when interviewed by the Ghanaian News. He added: “This win is for our entire family and I’m extremely proud of her. I’m still waiting for someone to pinch me; I feel like I’m dreaming as I couldn’t believe this was happening. I almost broke down during the crowning when they put it on her head and it was so emotional. And the good part was, she truly deserved it and that’s what makes me extremely gratified as her dad.”

Zipporah tops all, as Miss Ghanaian Canadian comes off cont’d from pg. 1 the top-most award. Zipporah was at her enchanting best at the well attended event which also had in attendance, the Consul General of Ghana in Toronto, Mr. John Bosco Dery-Kpebesani and other senior representatives from Money Gram and Ethiopian Airlines, the main sponsors of the event.

The event which kick-started with an unforgettable rendition of the national anthems of Ghana and Canada respectively by Bella Tee was evidently one of the many highlights of the colourful event, in which Miss Zipporah Prempeh’s enactments on the night, also won her the Miss Humanitarian, Miss Photogenic, Miss Congeniality and Miss Social awards, as Barbara Akua Sam and Sikina Musa-Mclean won Miss Swim Wear and Miss Talent awards respectively; with Misses Ama Adobea Ampofo, Elizabeth Adjei Twumasi, Rebecca Panford and Nana Yaa Ankomaah summing up the other contestants.

The ladies who engaged themselves

in an exigent but healthy competition treated patriots on the night to various contests in Swim Wear, Traditional Wear, Talent Exhibitions and many other competitions in their quest to win the first Miss Ghanaian Canadian 2016 honour.

The almost sold out event did leave up to its billing as the audience were treated to brilliant cultural displays by the Ubuntu musical group and an energetic stage performance from talented musicians, Slimflex and Freeman Nadwo amongst other outstanding acts on the night.

Speaking to the Ghanaian New after the event, the beauty pageant committee president, Mr. Emmanuel Ayiku hailed the finalist for this year’s pageant as ‘outstanding’ and was optimistic of the event reaching greater heights come next year. He said: “I must admit we as a team are pleased with the talents of this year’s finalist for the pageant. We are hopeful of better things to come when we organise the next one but above all, everything has been worth-nothing and we want to thank all sponsors for coming on board to make this a success.”

Trudeau, Harper and Chretiengather with leaders to mourn Peres in Jerusalem cont’d from pg. 7 dignitaries since the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Peres’ partner in peace, who was killed by a Jewish nationalist in 1995.

“He started life as Israel’s brightest student, became its best teacher and ended up its biggest dreamer,” said Clinton.

Clinton, who was president when Peres negotiated a historic interim peace accord with the Palestinians in 1993, called him a “wide champion of our common humanity.”

“He lived 93 years in a state of constant wonder over the unbelievable potential of all the rest of us to rise above our wounds, our resentments, our fears to make the most of today and claim the promise of tomorrow.”

He described a warm, 25-year friendship and dismissed critics who described Peres as a naive dreamer. He recalled a meeting with Peres where Israeli and Arab children sang together John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

The funeral created numerous logistical and security challenges, and roads, including the main highway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, were closed. The Canadian Press

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Federal government approves liquefied natural gas project on B.C. coast with 190 conditions Project would build a liquefied natural gas terminal on coast and pipeline spanning province

ronmental concerns.

“Indigenous Peoples were meaningfully consulted, and where appropriate, impacts on their The federal government rights and interests were has conditionally ap- accommodated,” McKproved the Pacific North- enna said. “ConsultaWest liquefied natural tions were extensive and gas project in British Co- project conditions will lumbia with 190 legally address concerns that were raised.” binding conditions.

Environment Minister McKenna said that InCatherine McKenna said digenous groups near the the approval decision was site of the project will taken following extensive work with the federal studies on the project’s government on environenvironmental impact, mental monitoring, which science and after consul- the minister said was tations with First Nations. consistent with the govFlanked by Natural Re- ernment’s reconciliation sources Minister Jim agenda.

Carr, B.C. Premier Chris- Greenhouse gas emisty Clark and Fisheries sions Minister Dominic LeB- The project, backed by lanc, McKenna said the Malaysian-owned energy investment was worth giant Petronas, would $11 billion and would be move natural gas from one of Canada’s largest B.C.’s northeast via a resource development TransCanada pipeline to a terminal on Lelu Island projects.

“I am confident with the near Prince Rupert for 190 legally binding, and export to Asia. scientifically determined The Canadian Environconditions, that we will mental Assessment Agenaddress the most im- cy (CEAA) released a portant environmental draft report in Februimpacts to ensure this ary that said the project project proceeds in the would result in roughly most sustainable manner 6.5 to 8.7 megatonnes possible,” McKenna said. of GHG pollution each Those 190 conditions year, a marked increase cover everything from in emissions both at the wetland management, provincial (8.5 per cent) the quality of freshwater and national (0.75 per fish and fish habitat, ma- cent) level. rine fish and mammals, The agency has said the migratory birds, human project “would be one health, concerns over of the largest greenhouse cultural heritage sites and gas emitters in Canada.” long-term environmental Since that draft report, the agency has revised its monitoring.

The liquefied natural gas estimate down closer to project on B.C.’s coast the 5.0 megatonne level, has been championed by or about the equivalent of Clark as the largest pri- one million new cars on vate-sector development Canadian roads each year.

The decision comes as the in the country’s history.

It has also rankled envi- global natural gas market ronmentalists and some continues to be weighed First Nations who are down by a glut from new concerned about green- projects in the U.S. and house gas emissions and Australia, pushing prices the potential impact on to new lows. local fisheries and habitat. Petronas initially said McKenna said the deci- it would proceed with sion was based not only the project if the federal on science but also on government gave its apconsultations with First proval, but now the comNations from the area that pany says it will conduct advised the government a “total review” of the on fishing and other envi- project before making a

final investment decision.

In a statement, Adnan Zainal Abidin, president of Pacific NorthWest LNG, welcomed the announcement, saying it was a significant milestone, but he stopped short of saying what would happen next.

“Moving forward, Pacific NorthWest LNG and our shareholders will conduct a total project review over the coming months prior to announcing next steps for the project,” he said.

A job creator or broken promise?

“This is an important part of a new industry for British Columbia and for Canada and with it comes new opportunities and new economic benefits,” Carr said.

The natural resources minister said the project represents one of Canada’s largest resource developments, with a total capital investment of up to $36 billion when related upstream natural gas developments are included, he said.

Federal opposition parties had a mixed response to the announcement.

“Let me be clear: The prime minister had no other decision that he could have taken,” interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose told reporters earlier Tuesday, before the announcement was even confirmed.

“It’s a project that is absolutely necessary for the prosperity of this country, so now that he’s approved it, the next step is to get it built, so we expect him to be a full champion behind this project.”

NDP MP Nathan Cullen, however, said the approval “breaks the prime minister’s solemn promise to First Nations for a new relationship of respect and proper consultation.”

“The decision was made based on Stephen Harper’s discredited review process and without regard to the threats to our wild salmon economy or to Canada’s climate commitments,” Cullen added. CBC

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Canada should talk ‘growing pains’ with countries looking to mimic Syrian refugee program, senator says ‘I think “caution” would be the watchword ... in terms of exporting what we’ve done,’ says Jim Munson The federal government should acknowledge the shortcomings of Canada’s Syrian refugee program as it holds it up as a model for other countries, the chairman of the Senate’s human rights committee says.

“I think ‘caution’ would be the watchword ... in terms of exporting what we’ve done,” Senator Jim Munson told CBC News. “We should be telling other countries, ‘but here are the growing pains.’”

Last week, Immigration Minister John McCallum announced the Canadian government would partner with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees and billionaire George Soros to help other countries develop private sponsorship programs for refugees.

McCallum said 13 other countries have already expressed interest in Canada’s model.

But in June, Munson’s committee pointed out “urgent concerns” with Canada’s Syrian refugee program, including inadequate access to English and French language-training programs and the need for a plan to address the mental health needs of refugees who have experienced trauma. “ We c e r t a i n l y s t i l l h a v e concerns,” Munson said. “I’m not really sure much ... more has been done since our observations or recommendations that came out at the end of June.”

Although a lot of good work has already been achieved in bringing more than 30,000 Syrian refugees to Canada, he said, “we can’t rest on our laurels as a nation.”

One significant concern that needs to be addressed, Munson said, is the number of months it takes to process Syrian refugees who have been matched with private sponsors in Canada.

“You can imagine the anxiety,” he said.

“People ... have sponsored refugees and they’re not arriving when they were supposed to be arriving.

“I think it must be painful for them

Minister Jim Munson and even more painful for those who had expected to come earlier to our country.”

‘Our life stopped’ A member of a Syrian family anxiously waiting in Lebanon says they feel “sometimes sad and sometimes depressed and sometimes angry” that it’s been seven months since they were interviewed by Canadian officials.

“We feel that our life stopped and we can’t do anything,” Housam said in a telephone interview from Beirut.

Housam, his sister Leen and brotherin-law Majd asked that their last names not be published out of concern their application to come to Canada might be affected.

Majd and Leen were hoping to be in Canada in time for their six-year-old daughter, Naya, to start the school year.

“We have sponsors, amazing sponsors, that are waiting,” Housam said. “We are looking for someplace that we can live normally as a human being.”

Leen and Housam’s elderly parents are also with them in Beirut, and keep asking when they will get a call saying they can go to Canada.

“Every day it’s the same question,” Leen said. “It’s hard for us all.”

The wait is also frustrating for the Toronto group privately sponsoring the family of six.

“We thought that the family would be here by now ... well on their way to being settled,” said Doug Earl, one of the sponsors. “They’re languishing in

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KAMA Solutions Holds ‘The Xchange’ Annual Seminar In Toronto

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Ghana: The danger of falling standards Prof. T. P. Manus Ulzen

With barely 3 months till we go to the polls it is apparent that there are c o m m u n i t y i s o f t e n indeed many versions T h i s y e a r ’s e d i t i o n described as people who o f G h a n a a t i s s u e . of the ‘The Xchange’ spend and do not invest, Some of them will be successfully came to so it was important, the affected by the results of an end in Toronto, with seminar was designed the polls but most will the theme; ‘Making to attract those within not be impacted by the Wi s e I n v e s t m e n t s o u r c o m m u n i t y chorus of promises which Edition’. The seminar w ho u n d er s too d th e count for campaigning. which is one of the The Ghana I experience importance of investing often is one of a man several flagship events and wanted to learn more who travels many miles of KAMA Solutions about how to make wise to get medical care for was to create a platform investments.” his pregnant wife or a to enable participants mother with a sick get the opportunity to She added: “Participants young child neither of learn something new, Cynthia Kwakyewah event o f t h i s y e a r ’s ‘ T h e whom can afford simple get inspired and most Xchange’ got inspired medications because they coordinator importantly, keep up to and also made contacts have to choose between date with modern trends ‘The Xchange’, Cynthia with potential clients and f o o d , tr an s p o r tatio n in the business industry, Kwakyewah was happy partners in their respective back home or the cost of and also, to provide about the turn-out for line of professions. The suggested treatments by networking opportunities the seminar and was seminar had some of the nurses and doctors who for business like-minded optimistic that, the goals major industry experts may not have been paid A f r i c a n , C a r i b b e a n for the seminar were as speakers and their for months themselves.

Or it may be workers and other Canadian astonishingly achieved. orations brought value hired to do a job who entrepreneurs in the She said: “We had a back to the participants’ though keen, are so poorly Greater Toronto Area number of workshops businesses and we are trained or prepared, that (GTA). and presentations for happy about that. Don’t one wonders where to this year’s event. The forget that, new ideas begin. We read articles In an interview with the core message of each can really bring new life daily in which the writers Ghanaian News after of them was making to an old business, and c a n n o t d i s t i n g u i s h the business seminar, wise investments and keep things fresh and b e t w e e n “ b o t h e r i n g and bordering” or tell event coordinator of the as you are aware, our exciting!” the difference between “formerly and formally” or “park and pack” or “perks and pecks” or write “death ears instead of deaf ears” etc. With all this going, on our leaders say we are making progress more people that we would lose.” because they are building Beirut where they can’t work.” roads. These roads are “If we open it up and we brag about how built with borrowed funds “They have a fairly precarious position,” good [the refugee program] is, we have he said. “They can’t stay there, they really to meet their needs when private and usually riddled with can’t go back [to Syria] ... so their only sponsors come to try to sponsor more kickbacks for party hacks. choice is to move on.” individuals.”

Good leadership is about

By Edmund Agbeko, Toronto

Canada should talk ‘growing pains’ with countries looking to mimic Syrian refugee program, senator says

The amount of time taken to process Syrian applications has increased since the government’s big push to meet its commitment of bringing in 25,000 refugees in late 2015 and early 2016.

The initial expected processing time was three to six months, said Earl, who is also a spokesman for Canada 4 Refugees, an advocacy organization for private sponsors. He said that timeframe has increased to eight or nine months.

Groups across the country trying to help Syrian refugees start out with “a great deal of enthusiasm,” he said, but “as the process drags out, people’s enthusiasm naturally wanes somewhat.”

“It’s just a kind of a squandering of an opportunity to harness that enthusiasm and that momentum and keep it going.”

Want ‘momentum to continue’ That concerns Saleem Spindari, manager of refugee settlement at MOSAIC, a charity serving newcomers in Vancouver.

“The reality is we want the momentum to continue because Canadians have responded to the human call of many refugees after seeing gruesome pictures of people trying to flee [Syria] using dangerous routes,” Spindari said.

“People are really on board to be part of this initiative. The more delays, the

A spokeswoman for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said the additional resources and special measures put in place earlier in the “Syrian resettlement initiative” were temporary.

“We know refugees and sponsors are disappointed that expedited processing could not continue, but Canada’s ongoing response to the refugee crisis must be done in a sustainable way,” Nancy Caron said in an emailed statement to CBC News. “We know that there are other refugees around the world who are also awaiting approval of their private sponsorship application.”

“It is important to remember that the processing of Syrian refugee cases has never stopped. Work has continued in earnest over the summer to finalize as many cases as possible and we have been processing new referrals received from the United Nations Refugee Agency,” Caron said.

A c c o r d i n g t o t h e department’s website, more than 30,862 Syrian refugees have arrived in Canada since Nov. 4, 2015. Of those, 11,360 have been privately sponsored.

As of Sept. 18, 19,626 Syrian refugee resettlement applications were “in progress” and 3,789 had been finalized, but the refugees had not yet travelled to Canada. CBC

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building societies with good and sustainable values. To this end, I was most gratified in reading that Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo had walked out of an event at Legonapparently because her name had been wrongly spelt on the event program. Someone is finally standing up to the tyranny of illiteracy and mediocrity in Ghana.

It’s about time. YabrƐ!

According to UNESCO, we supposedly have a literacy rate of 76% but what do we read and what is written? Gone are the days when a primary school child would pick up a national daily like the Daily Graphic to improve their language skills. Today this paper and others are routinely riddled with grammatical and other errors. Cameron Duodu where are you?

This year’s West Africa Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results had 53%, 33% and 48% of students passing English, Math and Science respectively.

The Education Ministry called it an improvement.

No cause for alarm.

Only 53% obtained 5 credits or more. Roughly 25% of students failed “in toto.” This calls for serious analysis devoid of political noise. We are failing to prepare our youth for the future ahead of them. We need to accept the reality, find the root causes of the problem and develop a comprehensive plan based on data, not emotions, to turn things around in short order.

Our cities are increasingly filthy because we have no guiding or overarching national sanitation and waste management strategy that is uniformly implemented and evaluated at the local level. The superficial gimmicky monthly sanitation days have died an expected natural death.

Poor sanitation is central to most of our health problems in Ghana.

Our oceans are full of plastic waste, destroying the natural ecology of sea life. We say we are a tourist destination. Who wants to spend leisure time on a beach that is a glorified rubbish dump?

Plastic waste clogs our drains and our cities flood every raining season with untold deaths but we are told that things are good and we should rejoice. Cholera is now endemic in our country, yet all is well. There is no strategic long range structural urban planning going on and there are no laws enforced to guide the expansion of our towns and cities, yet all is well.

tried and sentenced and Ghanaians immediately start begging. What is wrong with us? A whole song and dance goes on with members of the government who are supposed to serve all Ghanaians, signing a partisan petition to have them freed. These ministers included women. What were they thinking? What was their message on the rights of women?

Oh, the president has the prerogative to commute their sentences, so why not? Let them out! All doctors know how to make people die, so should they exercise their knowledge also? Soldiers are armed so should they go shooting? Of course not! We are all guided by rules, regulations and laws but more importantly by good judgement.

Those in leadership positions are expected to foster a culture of sound decision making.

They were released on compassionate grounds.

Really? Were they dying from terminal illnesses?

The judges would have considered all mitigating factors. If they had not, I would have expected a 12 month sentence.

For publicly threatening murder and rape with impunity on the airwaves?

The judges were kind and the president could have shown more wisdom in his leadership.

So the campaign is on.

The opposition have a one district- one factory program, a one village - one dam program, etc. I wish we were more realistic.

Saying that an industry or focus of commerce will be identified and promoted for every district would be more realistic. Some may have assets in tourism, health, education, agriculture etc. around which economic development can be supported. We do not need a factory in every district.

The global economy has shifted towards the role of technology in the management of knowledge and information in the service of many industries. Our plans for economic production must at a minimum be regionally focused since the ECOWAS market of 335 million is one third of the population of subSaharan Africa and about 50% of the population of the European Union.

We are illiterate both in English and in our own native languages.

Is “Montie” an Akan word? “Listen” is spelt “Muntie” in Akan as our Fanti teacher the late Egya Brew taught us in Augusco, while we were learning English, French and Latin concurrently.

Is education no longer a prerequisite for any job?

Some guy who has not made a sound in parliament for years is nominated by our president as a Deputy Minister and he is taken seriously. Ok. Maybe he was the best man for the job. That says a great deal about the person making the nomination also.

Three talking heads actually threaten judges and the Chief Justice who happens to be a woman with rape and the Attorney- General does nothing, so the The political tools that judiciary is forced to cont’d on pg. 16 act. They are lawfully

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IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL ISSUES By: James A. Kwaateng, B.A. (Hons), LLB (Hons)

Sponsorship of orphaned relatives One of the principal objectives of Immigration Canada as indicated in section 3(1)(d) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) is to see that families are reunited in Canada. The list of people who can be sponsored as members of the family class is found in Section 117 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR). It is necessary the foreign relative meets the definition in R117 before a straightforward sponsorship could be done in respect of the relative.

Below is what the Regulation in respect of sponsorship of orphans says: R117(1) A foreign national is a member of the family class if, with respect to a sponsor, the foreign national is: (f) a person whose parents are deceased, who is under 18 years of age, who is not a spouse or

common-law partner and who is (i) a child of the sponsor’s mother or father (ii) a child of a child of the sponsor’s mother or father. (iii) a child of the sponsor’s child In other words, if the orphan is under 18 years of age, unmarried and not in common-law relationship, and is the sponsor’s full-brother or half-brother or full-sister or half-sister; or is the sponsor’s nephew or niece; or is the sponsor’s grandchild, the child would clearly be eligible for sponsorship.

The relationship between the sponsor and the parents of the orphaned relative must be clearly and convincingly established.

This might necessitate reliance on the sponsor’s previous information in the hands of the Immigration such as “Additional Family Information” form completed by the sponsor at the time the sponsor filed an application for permanent residence.

R133 (1) generally applies to such sponsorships. The sponsor of an orphaned relative will have to demonstrate to the immigration that, on the day the application was filed to the day a decision is made with respect to the application, there is evidence that the sponsor is an eligible sponsor.

The Regulation requires the sponsor to demonstrate that he intends to fulfil the obligations in

the sponsorship undertaking. The exception to the minimum necessary income does not generally apply to sponsorship of orphaned relatives.

The Regulation also requires that the sponsor is not subject to a removal order; is not detained in any penitentiary, jail, reformatory or prison; has not been convicted under the criminal code of any serious offence or any offence in respect of which the Immigration would not allow him to be a sponsor.

The Regulation requires further that the sponsor

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In situations where direct sponsorships of orphaned relatives cannot be done, it might be possible to invoke humanitarian and compassionate considerations under section 25 of the Immigration and

Refugee Protection Act to overcome any issues of ineligibility under section 117 or resort to adoption.

Prospective sponsors should not hesitate to contact immigration law professionals for advice and assistance whenever necessary.

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Ghana: The danger of falling standards cont’d from pg. 15 citizens need to stem the high tide of daylight robbery by those in authority, like the Right to Information Bill, continue to languish somewhere in parliament.

The opposition couldn’t even get a hearing on the floor of the house for the Ford Expedition palaver.

The Speaker failed in his non- partisan role and diminished the value of house by his actions.

There is no moral courage to do what is right.

A few short months ago, the Bureau of National Intelligence (BNI) took some South African security experts brought in by the NPP to court. The judge granted them bail and the BNI operatives simply “kidnapped” the suspect and left the courthouse with them, ignoring the judge’s ruling. The Attorney General said nothing.

The president certainly did not recognize the

miscarriage of justice nor did the Ghana Bar Association. So, a culture of lawlessness and impunity is being nurtured and fostered by this NDC administration and the appropriate professional body also does not assert itself.

Even “younger” nations have their overseas citizens registered and voting during their elections and we are still not there yet but we are making great progress.

Watching Rio 2016 was very painful because we were not relevant. I longed for the days when Ghana surely would win medals in soccer, track and field and boxing. We need to get serious. If we are planning to compete in, rather than attend Tokyo 2020, we should start finding sponsors to support the training of our promising athletes now. There are also so many other sports we

should be developing and competing in but these have to be nurtured and supported from the ground up through the dying academic system.

We have everything we need but are wanting for selfless, honest and wise leadership. God has already blessed our homeland Ghana a hundred times over and we have no oppressors ruling us but ourselves.

The choices are clear.

More of the same, something slightly different or something radically different.

T. P. Manus Ulzen is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of Alabama and Author of” Java Hill: An African Journey” – A historiography of Ghana tulzen@yahoo.com javahillelmina. wordpress.com Twitter: @thaddeusulzen www.javahillelmina.com

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Ghanaian Community in Toronto Contributes to the Diaspora Engagement Policy at an Organized Forum From Joe Kingsley Eyiah and Emmanuel Ayiku, Vaughan-Ontario

A good number of Ghanaians, especially professionals and community leaders including chiefs and Pastors, living in the Greater Toronto Area on Saturday, September 3, and Sunday, September 4, 2016 had a roundtable forum with a delegation from Ghana Foreign AffairsMinistry at the Springhill Suites, Marriott Hotel in Vaughan-Ontario. The meeting was for the technical team from Ghana to elicit views of Ghanaians abroad on the draft of the national diaspora engagement policy. Meetings on the issue were held with Ghanaians in the US and in Europe and South

Africa in 2014 before the draft policy.

It may be recalled that the pursuant to a presidential policy directive, anew Diaspora Affairs bureau was established in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration (MFA&RI) as the national platform for Ghanaians in diaspora engagement.

The technical team for the engagement process comprised Prof. Stephen O. Kwankye, Dr. Joseph Teye, Messers Emmanuel Enos, ThomasEssel Eric Peasah and Akwasi A. Adomako.

The forum was officially opened by the Ghana’s High Commissioner to Canada, H.E. Dr.

SulleyGariba on Saturday, September 3. He used the occasion to encourage Ghanaians in Canada to take ownership of the Diaspora Engagement Policy by candidly reviewing the draft policy and give positive suggestions as well as informed inputs to make the policy meaningful to Ghana as a nation and Ghanaians in diaspora in particular.

The draft policy had been sent to the participants earlier for their study.

The introductory portion of the draft states among other reasons for a viable diaspora engagement policy for Ghana that, “In addition to the large size of the Ghanaian

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Topics arising from the discussion of the draft policy included stronger ins titutions to fight corruption at all levels cont’d on pg. 66

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Global carbon dioxide levels reach highest point ever, likely for good 400 parts per million has long been considered a benchmark of irreversible damage Global carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have surpassed 400 parts per million, and will almost certainly remain there indefinitely, according to new numbers from the Scripps carbon dioxide monitoring program at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii.

The 400-level has long been considered a benchmark of irreversible damage to the environment.

“We’re really in uncharted territory,” said Ralph Keeling from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who directs the program. “It’s too bad we’re this deep into it already, but that’s the fact.”

The level has swung above 400 parts per million before, but this is the first time

it will have stayed that high for all 12 months of the year.

While the year isn’t over yet, the month of September almost always has the lowest levels, because it comes at a time when plentiful summer plants in the Northern Hemisphere slow down their carbon dioxide uptake and begin to die off in the fall.

Keeling said that sometimes October has a lower number, but it’s only happened four times since 2002. He said it’s unlikely that the number will dip below 400 parts per million this year.

And to make matters worse, we’ve surpassed that benchmark more quickly than anticipated, said Keeling.

“It was first in 2014 that we had a monthly value that was above the 400 level. So it only took a year and a half or two years to overwhelm that natural cycle,” he said.

The number is also unlikely to decrease.

Keeling said that even if we implement the best environmental policies tomorrow, it would take hundreds of years to stabilize and then lower the levels.

40% rise since Industrial Revolution Carbon dioxide levels can seem an obscure concept, making it difficult for people to gauge what, exactly, is going on.

To put it into context, Danny Harvey, a professor in the department of geography at the University of Toronto, who teaches about climate change, explains that before the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide levels were around 280 parts per million.

“So that’s about a 40 per cent increase, and way, way outside the range of the last million years,” he explained.

This, coupled with temperature increases, puts the planet on track to become ice-free at some point in the future.

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Ghana might be a small country on the map but its greatness has gone far gaining it the name, the gateway to West Africa The country has churned out some great men and women who have made the country proud around the world.

Some have naturalized for other countries but that does not make them less of Ghanaians because their roots can be traced back here, so without further ado, here are 2o Ghanaians doing great around the World.

1. Herman Chinery-Hesse Herman Chinery-Hesse was born in Ireland and an alma mater of Texas State University, knowing his roots, he decided to come back home to help in our technology.

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2. Dr. Thomas Mensah Dr. Thomas Mensah is a Ghanaian-born chemical engineer and inventor. His works are in fields relating to the developments in Fiber Optics and Nanotechnology. He was awarded 7 USA and worldwide patents in Fiber Optics within a period of six years. His one of his popular books, “The Right Stuff Comes In Black, Too” is a widely acclaimed book loved by many people.

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in Africa. He’s invented many gadgets and machines but he’s well known for his cars. He’s a man who believes the average Ghanaian can make it in every field if we put our minds to it.

4. Bright Simons Bright Simons is a Ghanaian social innovator, entrepreneur, writer and researcher affiliated with IMANI. He’s the president of mPedigree, a self-described ‘social enterprise’ noted for its work to expose makers and distributors of counterfeit medicines

.5. Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor Prof. Nii Narku Quaynor is a scientist and engineer who has played an important role in the introduction and development of the Internet throughout Africa. His work is well known around the world and speaks for itself.

6. Ama Ata Aidoo Ama Ata Aidoo is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academician.

She was also a Minister of Education in Ghana under the Jerry Rawlings administration. Her works and books are widely known putting Ghana on the map.

7. Reggie Yates Reggie Yates is an English actor, television presenter and radio DJ, best known from his roles as Rastamouse, Leo Jones in Doctor Who, and for his work at the BBC in radio and television – presenting various shows for BBC Radio 1 with Fearne Cotton – as well as hosting the ITV2 reality show Release the Hounds.

Both of his parents were born in Ghana but are currently living in the UK,tracing his roots back to Ghana but naturalized as British.

8. Afua Hirsch Afua Hirsch is a journalist, barrister and human rights development worker of Ghanaian, English and Jewish heritage. Born in Stavanger, Norway, to an English father and a Ghanaian mother, she grew up in England

9. Anas Aremeyaw Anas Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a Ghanaian investigative journalist born in the late 1970s. Anas’s motto is “name, shame and jail” and he is famous for utilizing his anonymity as a tool in his investigative arsenal. He’s worked for many giant news agencies around the world and has unveiled a lot of shady deals by public servants.

He’s an advocate for human rights and his work is widely known around the world.

10. Kofi Annan Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Although he’s no more the Secretary-General, he’s still relentless about his duties to world peace.

11. Adam Afriyie Adam Afriyie is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Windsor.

He was first elected in the 2005 general elec-

tion, re-elected in the 2010 and 2015 elections whose roots can be traced to Ghana and is making strides in the world of politicians.

12. Lord Paul Yaw Boateng Lord Paul Yaw Boateng is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK’s first mixed-race Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Following his departure from the House of Commons, he served as the British High Commissioner to South Africa from March 2005 to May 2009. He was introduced as a member of the House of Lords on 1 July 2010.

13. Peter Bossman Peter Bossman is a Ghanaian-born Slovenian doctor and politician. He is currently serving as mayor of Piran, a city and municipality in Slovenian Istria in south-western Slovenia.

14. Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng Kwasi Alfred Addo Kwarteng is a British politician and historian.

A member of the Conservative Party, he has served as a Member of Parliament since 2010 representing the constituency of Spelthorne in Surrey.

15. Lord Bernard Ribeiro Bernard Francisco Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro, is a British surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from

2005 to 2008. He has created a life peer in 2010 and sits in the House of Lords on the Conservative benches. He was born in Ghana and schooled at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and at Middlesex Hospital Medical School.

16. John Akomfrah John Akomfrah, OBE is an English artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator.

He’s of Ghanaian descent, whose “commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films”.

17. Amma Asante Amma Asante is a British born to Ghanaian parents.

She is a British screenwriter, film director, and former actress. She wrote and directed A Way of Life (2004). Her second film as a director was Belle in 2013.

ian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author. She left Ghana to be educated in Britain at a very young age.

She worked as a civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ghana, before beginning her career in journalism as a trainee at the BBC.

19. Akosua Busia Akosua Gyamama Busia is a Ghanaian actress, film director, author and songwriter who lives in the U.K. Busia is best known for her role as Nettie Harris in the 1985 film The Color Purple alongside Whoopi Goldberg.

20. Her Ladyship Mrs. Justice Mabel Maame Agyemang Her Ladyship Mrs. Justice Mabel Maame Agyemang née Banful (also Yamoa), is an expert superior court judge who has served in the judiciaries of the Governments of Ghana, The Gambia and Swaziland. She was the first female Chief Justice of the Gambia.

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Ghana Secures $500 Million World Bank Partial Guarantee Ghana has signed an agreement for a $500-million partial guarantee from the World Bank for its Offshore Cape Three Points (OCTP)- Sankofa gas project.

The IDA payment guarantee covers the risks of non-payment should the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) fails to meet its payment obligation under the gas sales agreement covering the Sankofa field.

The World Bank will also in addition provide $200 million enclave guarantee to the partners to support project financing for the private sector by covering debt service defaults as a result of breach of specified contractual obligations by the GNPC and the government.

Agreements covering the guarantees were signed in Accra with the World Bank Country Director, Mr Henry Kerali, signing on behalf of the Bank, while the Finance Minister, Mr Seth Terkper, signed on behalf of the Government of Ghana.

Mr Terkper said the agreements include the indemnity agreements whereby government will indemnify or reimburse the World Bank for any payments they may have to make to the letters of credit (LC) banks on GNPC’s behalf.

He said GNPC would under the agreements make payment from funds for the sale of purchased gas, and as support guarantee, the GNPC’s approved cont’d on pg. 29

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President Obama opens new US Museum designed

by Ghanaian architect, David Adjaye Speaking at the dedication of a new U.S. museum devoted to the history of African-Americans, U.S. President Barack Obama said their history is central to America’s history dating back to the country’s traditional founding fathers.

“Too often we ignored or forgot the stories of millions upon millions of others who built this nation just as surely,” Obama said.

At times brushing away a tear, Obama pointed out the highs and lows of being black in America, from slavery and Jim Crow segregation to voting rights and election of the first black president.

“We are not a burden on America, or a stain on America … we are America. And that’s what this

President Barack Obama museum explains,” he told the thousands who had gathered on the National Mall for the event.

After years in the making, the newest museum on Washington’s National Mall, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, officially opened to the public Saturday.

Ghana Secures $500 Million World Bank Partial Guarantee cont’d from pg. 28 share of petroleum revenue from the Jubilee, TEN and Sankofa Gye Nyame fields, as well as the World Bank’s partial risk guarantee (PRG) and sovereign guarantee.

Mr Terkper said the development and production of the Sankofa Gye Nyame gas field was expected to yield major economic and social benefits to the nation, including increased petroleum revenue through royalties and taxes, as well as creating jobs and employment opportunities from the development of the domestic gas market.

“We will also have a competitive gas price which will enhance national energy security and position Ghana as a regional hub for energy supply to the rest of West Africa and also have access to long-term cheaper and sustainable gas feedstock which will spur the nation’s industrialisation drive,” he added.

Mr Alex Mould, the Chief Executive of the GNPC, said the Sankofa project was one of the few projects around the world that had progressed, in spite of the challenging oil and gas environment.

The project is Ghana’s first gas-to-power project, with the capacity to supply natural gas up to 180 million standard cubic per day. This is enough to generate up to 1,100 megawatts of power, using the combined cycle technology.

“It is a landmark project which will contribute significantly to meeting Ghana’s energy security needs,” he said.

The field, lying about 60 kilometres offshore Ghana, holds an estimated proven hydrocarbon reserve of 204 million barrels of oil and 1.1 trillion standard cubic feet of natural gas.

He said the GNPC was working with the project partners, Eni and Vitol, to ensure that first gas was obtained on the scheduled date — the second quarter of 2018.

Wanda Moore attended the celebration with her daughter Celeste.

“A lot of people don’t want to talk about slavery, but I think it’s very important, because our ancestors came from Africa.

They were brought over here,” Moore said. “They were slaves, and I don’t think it’s something to be ashamed of. I think they’re very strong that they made it this far.”

With the current tensions in race relations, she said she thought the museum, with its artifacts and information, would allow for more thoughtful discussions on race.

Obama echoed that thought, saying the museum tells a story of America that will promote healing and reconciliation.

“By knowing this other story, we better understand

ourselves and each other.

It binds us together, it reaffirms that we are all Americans,” he said.

The new museum “symbolizes all of the contributions, the culture and the crisis of black America,” the Rev. Howard-John Wesley, pastor of Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, whose members donated $1 million to the museum, told the Associated Press.

“It’s a beautiful thing, especially in this day and time when we’re fighting to remind ourselves how important black lives are.”

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“I think the kids today need to know that there was a history that needed to be changed. It’s like I tell my kids: ‘I march so you don’t have to,’ ” Davis said.

Others at Saturday’s ceremony included former President George W. Bush, who signed the bill authorizing construction of the facility in 2003, and U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights icon who called the bronze-colored museum “more than a building, it is

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On Friday, the president told a group of about 750 guests in the Grand Foyer of the White House, gathered to celebrate the museum’s opening, that “the timing of this is fascinating.”

The crowd, many of whom were African-American, laughed and applauded at the understatement.

The city of Charlotte, North Carolina, has been rocked by nights of protests following the police shooting of a black man Tuesday. Also this week, a court in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, charged a white police officer with manslaughter after she fatally shot an unarmed black man last week.

Continuing his remarks, Obama said, “In so many ways, it is the best of times. But in many ways, these are also troubled times. History doesn’t always move in a straight line. And without vigilance, we can go backward as well as forward.”

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Newly discovered ‘world’s oldest man’ is 145-years-old but says he’s ready to die The world’s oldest man has been named as an Indonesian who is believed to be a staggering 145-years-old – but who wants to die.

Mbah Gotho has emerged from obscurity with documentation recognised by Indonesian officials revealing he was born on December 31, 1870.

He has outlived all 10 of his siblings as well as his four wives, the last of whom died in 1988.

All of his children have also died, and now he is survived by his grandchildren, great grandchildren, and greatgreat grandchildren.

If correct, that makes him significantly older than the verified oldest person in the world ever, a title that belongs to French woman Jeanne Calment, who lived to be 122.

The super-senior citizen from Sragen, Central Java, was recently interviewed by regional reporters, and he said he has been through it all and would not mind passing on.

“What I want is to die,” he said. “My grandchildren

Dr Mary Grant is dead According to sources in the family, Dr Mary Grant died on Sunday (September 18, 2016) at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra.

The first Ghanaian female medical doctor Dr Mary Grant has died.

According to sources in the family, she died on Sunday (September 18, 2016) at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra.

Dr Mary Grant was a former Member of the Council of State and former member of erstwhile Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC).

are all independent.”

S u r y a n t o , M b a h ’s grandson, said his grandfather has been preparing for his death ever since he was 122, but it never seemed to come.

He said: “The gravestone there was made in 1992.

That was 24 years ago.”

In addition, Suryanto s a i d M b a h ’s f a m i l y has already prepared a gravesite for him - near his children’s graves.

Staff at the Indonesian records office say they have confirmed Mbah’s birthdate, which is specified on his Indonesian ID card as December 31, 1870.

Whether or not he will ever be listed as the world’s oldest man however is

open to question, as the paperwork has so far not been independently verified.

She entered politics after she was appointed Deputy Secretary for Health in 1985 during the PNDC era.

If so he will join to others without verifiable records who are purportedly older than Mbah - 171-year-old James Olofintuyi from Nigeria and 163-yearold Dhaqabo Ebba from Ethiopia.

She championed the fight for a better welfare of all categories of health workers. She was also involved in drawing guidelines for drawing guidelines for the party structures at the grassroots.

These days, his grandchildren say Mbah mostly sits listening to the radio because his eyesight is too poor to watch television .

During her tenure as Deputy Secretary for Health, she led Ghana’s delegation to many international conferences including General Assemblies in Geneva, World Health Organisation (WHO), WHO Regional Conferences in Africa, World Bank Meeting in Africa Health, Cairo Conference on Population and Development among others.

For the past three months, he has had to be spoonfed and bathed as he has become increasingly frail.

When asked what his secret to longevity is, M b a h r e p lied : “Th e recipe is just patience.”

Dr Mary Grant to the Beijing Conference on Women’s Rights.

Dr Grant later served for two terms as a member of the Council of State at the inauguration of the fourth republic.

During that same time, she was the Chairperson of the National Council on Women and Development.

The Ghana Medical Association at their 39th Annual General Conference in 1997, awarded her a Certificate of Honour for her concern for the welfare of doctors.

She received a State award in the same year for her “wise and forthright counsel as a member of the Council of State”.

She turned 88 on August 6 this year.

She left behind six children and four grandsons. pulse.com

She was also part of Ghana’s delegation

Minister Jaczek’s Decision to Close Sheltered Workshop: mis-guided cont’d from pg. 1 where would he have gone?” Onley said.

“Somebody in the system would have decided that he was not capable of working and he would have ended up in a sheltered workshop.”

Members of the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada are very disturbed by this unconscionable action.

Why is the Minister of Community and Social Services moving to put an end to this effort which has been offering opportunities to persons in need.They want a tangible explanation for this sudden development.

Ironically, the Ministry of Community and Social Services, which funds developmental services, does not have stats on the number of existing sheltered workshops or how many actual participants work in them. This tells us that action by the ministry is being taken without adequate information. Minister Jaczek and her team cannot pro-

vide any substance regarding what impactthis new,harsh move would have on the province. A survey last year of the 370 organizations that support people with developmental delays had a response rate of less than half. Of the 170 agencies that reported, there were 3,463 individuals involved in 52 “simulated work settings, including training centres, day programs, vocational training and sheltered-workshop-like programs.”

In a letter to the Minister, NEPMCC President Thomas S. Saras brought to her attention that the announced closure of these workshops is causing undo stress to the families involved “You do not have the right to undermine the livelihoods of the least fortunate and vulnerable in our society without doing your due diligence and consulting with all the stakeholders,” Saras advised. The President who has been contact-

ed by affected families within various ethnic communities warned the minister that he will fight, tooth and nail, until this decision is reversed. “The workshops, including their employees and the customers that supply work to these workshops will be devastated by this ill executed closing,” NEPMCC President told Minister Jaczek.

“Those with physical and mental disabilities depend on these workshops for their social well-being, and the financial bonuses they receive from their work is just that- a bonus,” he concluded.

Critics contend, the real number of individuals participating in these workshops are hidden because many sessions are disguised by new names like “co-op,” “employment training,” or “social enterprise.” Most sheltered workshops are run by non-profit groups which receive provincial government unding. cont’d on pg. 32

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Call for 2016 Award Nominations Awards Criteria and Selection Process

This year’s (2016) presentation recognizes achievements in the following areas: 1. National honour: A community member whose work/contributions have been recognized nationally in Canada and thus brought recognition and pride to our community.

2. Community Service/Voluntarism: Persons who have consistently volunteered their time for a minimum of two years to a project or cause in our community or the larger Canadian society which has contributed to the quality of life of our community and/or Canadian society.

3. Professional Excellence: A continuous display of professional competence and excellence, devoid of any ethical violations in a person’s professional field or practice which can serve as a model for other professionals in our community.

4. Academic Excellence: Top class performance in academic pursuits at various levels of the educational ladder from High Schools, Colleges (CEGEP in Quebec), University or vocational/Professional training.

Cultural Promotion: An individual, group or organization which has worked consistently to promote Ghanaian culture for visible recognition in Canadian society.

6. Music, Arts and Entertainment/Firm Production: Individual or group artistes living in Canada who have consistently excelled and promoted Ghanaian music, Arts or other entertainment activities to international recognition levels over the past five years.

7. Sports: A consistent performance and achievement in the sports sector which has won nation-wide recognition and thus brought honour to our community.

8. Religion: Church groups or Religious organizations that have promoted religious and moral values in our community over the past five years.

9. Community Business Pioneers: Individuals or groups whose pioneering efforts in the business sector have spurred on and motivated other community members to venture into the business field.

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Top Ten Most Valuable Degrees in Canada A university education is still the best way to land a well-paying job. Over a 40-year period, university graduates on average earn $1.1 million, or 58 percent more than graduates from other Ontario post-secondary programs, and $1.5 million more than the average Canadian high school graduate, according to a 2015 employment report by University Works.

The list below ranks the top ten bachelor’s degrees based on the highest to lowest average salaries (data comes from a national survey of 25- to 54-year-old university graduates who worked full year, full time in 2010). And while figuring out which field is right for you can be challenging, based on the recently released report titled “Earnings of Post-secondary Graduates by Detailed Field of Study” by Statistics Canada, at least students can get a feel for the ROI of their educations.

No matter what program you choose in the end, with careful budgeting, planning and hard work, you can find success in any field.

10. Computer Engineering Average salary in 2010 dollars: $85,868 First year tuition (2015-2016, University of Toronto): $13,620 First year tuition (2016-2017, University of British Columbia): $6,275.20 First year tuition (2016-2017, McGill University): $4,532.24 The number of computer engineers is expected to grow sharply in the next few years, according to Service Canada, as a result of high business investment in the technology sector.

Computer engineers work with computer hardware and software systems. Hardware engineers design communication system networks such as fibre-optic or wireless communication networks and intranets, while software engineers code firmware for hardware systems.

9. Electrical Engineering Average salary in 2010 dollars: $87,354 First year tuition (2015-2016, University of Toronto): $13,620 First year tuition (2016-2017, University of British Columbia): $6,275.20 First year tuition (2016-2017, McGill University): $4,532.24 The number of electrical engineers is expected to increase slightly in the next few years as a result of technological developments in computer products.

Electrical engineering students eventually specialize in one of two streams: power or electronics. The former work for power generation and distribution companies, while the latter work for technology companies, designing electrical control systems and components.

8. Mathematics Average salary in 2010 dollars: $87,720 First year tuition (2015-2016, University of Toronto): $6,220 First year tuition (2016-2017, University of British Columbia): $5,088 First year tuition (2016-2017, McGill University): $4,140.56 Mathematicians have highly valuable skills that can be applied to many fields such as commerce, economics, engineering, and the sciences. For example, they may be hired by financial institutions to build mathematical models to predict the movements of stock markets, or by a retailer as a data scientist to create predictive models for online shopping.

7. Civil Engineering Average salary in 2010 dollars: $90,360 First year tuition (2015-2016, University of Toronto): $13,620 First year tuition (2016-2017, University of British Columbia): $6,275.20 First year tuition (2016-2017, McGill University): $4,532.24 Over the next few years, Canada’s economic growth is expected to boost investments in construction projects, which will lead to a slight growth in employment in this sector, according to Service Canada.

Working civil engineers are involved with the multiple stages of a building project from design to construction, and may work on a range of infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges, towers, buildings, and water supply systems.

6. Accounting Average salary in 2010 dollars: $92,911 First year tuition (2015-2016, University of Toronto): $6,220

First year tuition (2016-2017, University of British Columbia): $5,088 First year tuition (2016-2017, McGill University): $4,271.66 Accounting remains a popular profession for many students, and the number of graduates has increased in recent years. However, according to Service Canada, the labour market has enough job openings to accommodate the surge.

The field is quite broad and has two major specializations: public accounting and financial reporting and control. Students in the former learn about financial accounting, tax and audit, management, and graduate to work for public accounting firms. The latter is for students who wish to work as a financial analyst, managerial accountant or internal auditor.

5. Mechanical Engineering Average salary in 2010 dollars: $95,075 First year tuition (2015-2016, University of Toronto): $13,620 First year tuition (2016-2017, University of British Columbia): $6,275.20 First year tuition (2016-2017, McGill University): $4,532.24 Job growth in this field is heavily tied to Canada’s manufacturing sector. The loonie’s decline and strong recovery of the U.S economy have helped our manufacturing sector bounce back in recent years.

Working mechanical engineers are responsible for the entire product development cycle from research and development to installation and final commissioning.

They make sure the product is cost-effective, safe, and reliable once manufactured.

4. Finance Average salary in 2010 dollars: $95,870 First year tuition (2015-2016, University of Toronto): $6,220 First year tuition (2016-2017, University of British Columbia): $5,088 First year tuition (2016-2017, McGill University): $4,271.66 After two years of foundational business courses, students who specialize in finance will learn how to plan, manage and analyze the financial aspects of businesses, banks and other organizations. Upon graduation, they will be eligible to work in a variety of financial roles such as security analyst, market research analyst, bank manager, mortgage broker or portfolio manager.

3. Geosciences Average salary in 2010 dollars: $99,856 First year tuition (2015-2016, University of Toronto): $6,220 First year tuition (2016-2017, University of British Columbia): $5,088

First year tuition (2016-2017, McGill University): $4,140.56 A bachelor’s degree in geosciences can lead to work in mineral and petroleum exploration, environmental consulting and urban projects, among others.

These skills are highly valued in Canada’s lucrative mining industry, which has experienced some weakness amid lower commodity prices recently. However, it’s expected to expand significantly with the recent increase in exploration over the next few years, according to Statistics Canada.

2. Chemical Engineering Average salary in 2010 dollars: $107,267 First year tuition (2015-2016, University of Toronto): $13,620 First year tuition (2016-2017, University of British Columbia): $6,275.20 First year tuition (2016-2017, McGill University): $4,532.24 The number of new graduates is projected to meet the number of job openings in the next few years, according to Job Bank Canada.

Chemical engineering students will take the same foundational courses in math and science as students in other engineering disciplines in their first and second years. After, they will learn about subjects such as fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and process modelling in order to design operations that will transform raw material into specified products for the various industries they may be employed in, such as oil and gas, pharmaceuticals or energy.

1. Business, aka Management Sciences (MS) Average salary in 2010 dollars:: $112,536 First year tuition (2015-2016, University of Toronto): $6,220 First year tuition (2016-2017, University of British Columbia): $5,088 First year tuition (2016-2017, McGill University): $4,271.66 Note: according to the survey, a MS degree offers on average the highest salaries for women.

Management sciences degree holders had the highest average salary in 2010, and there continues to be a strong demand for them, according to Services Canada. The discipline is more tied to math than commerce, and will teach students about theories and models in statistics and programming, and how to apply them to a variety of business problems.

No matter what program you choose in the end, with careful budgeting, planning and hard work, you can find success in any field.

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Minister Jaczek’s Decision to Close Sheltered Workshop: mis-guided cont’d from pg. 30 Toronto’s Corbrook, a not-for-profit organization, straddles the old idea of the sheltered workshops and the more progressive idea of providing real training. Corbrook helps people with developmental delays get full and part-time jobs with companies like Starwood Hotels or Canlan Ice Sports. In 2014, 30 out of 255 people in employment training programs at Corbrook got paying jobs.

But it also operates a busy sheltered workshop in a strip mall on Trethewey Rd. in Toronto’s west end.

The program is called Transition to Work. “It offers employment training,” executive director Deepak Soni said.But many of the trainees have been there for 15 years or longer.“They don’t want to leave,” Soni said.

The decision to bring these workshops to an end is the strongest statement yet from the ministry following aToronto Star series exposing the problem. Initially, the governmentannounced there would be no new admissions to the workshops, typically located in indus-

trial malls. Now the province plans to close them forever. We hope this is not another action by government to cut costs at the expense of those who are least able to afford the mere pleasures of life.

The action falls very far from fairness and justice in a society which claims

to be one that thrives on equitable practices. Madam Premier and Minister Zackzek, this is the time to demonstrate that you really care about our most vulnerable, in this Ontario society. We know you can do better. Reverse this senseless and unfair decision.

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Southern Ghana Asafo Flags and Artifacts on Exhibition at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto

cont’d from pg. 1 this historic occasion. The Ghanaian community at large was also present to lend their support. Many visitors to the museum on that day were also witnesses to the grand opening ceremony.

The performance of the Bor Bor Fante Asafo group led by Messrs Samuel Donkoh, Daniel Wilberforce, Robert Nkoom and Daniel Inkoom of the Mfantsiman Association mesmerized the crowd with dexterity

of Asafo dancing and flag manipulation. They jumped and gyrated their bodies as if they were in a trance going to war. It was a spectacle only seen back home in Africa. The crowd could not stop applauding as the

drumming and dancing came to a stop after going round to greet the VIPs and the chiefs and queen mothers sitting in state.

Ghana’s High Commissioner H. E. Dr. Sulley Gariba,Deputy High Commissioner Abi

Adatsi Consul General John Bosco Kpebesani and their staffs in Ottawa and Toronto as well as the executives of the Ghanaian Canadian Association of Toronto (GCAO) who were cont’d on pg. 41

H.E. Dr. Sulley Gariba, High Commissioner

Group picture of VIPs From left: Mr. Emmanuel Ayiku, H.E. Sulley Gariba and wife, Mr. John Bosco, Mr. Chen, Ms. Silvia Forni, Lawyer Rocco Acheampong

Bor Bor Fante Asafo Group Nananom at the reception

Nananom

Consulate staff and others

H.E Dr Gariba presenting a gift to Mr. Chen with Ms Silvia Forni looking on

H.E. Dr. Gariba and wife with Beauty Queens, Zipporah (2nd from leaft and Barbara Akua Sam

Display of Asafo Flags by Bor Bor Fante Asafo Group

Nananom

Dancing the Apatampa

Spectators at the Museum

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1st Miss Ghanaian Canadian Pageant 2016 in pictures

Winner with parents and siblings

Past Beauty Queens

Contestants

Organisers and Ghanaian News team

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Contestants - cultural display

Emmanuel Ayiku, Pageant President and Judges, From left : Dina Dickson, Odoi Yemoh, Felicia Botchwey, Anna Aidoo, Barbara Brown

Group picture of contestants with winner and runners-up

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Elizabeth Adjei Barbara Akua Sam Zippora Prempeh, Winner

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Nana Ekua Bemah, Nkosuohemaa of Asanteman Association of Toronto with H.E. Dr. Sulley Gariba and wife at Royal Ontario Museum

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Hailey Donkor daughter of Lawrence Donkor and Yvonne Annobil celebrated her 3rd birthday on Sunday 25th September 2016 at St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church Toronto

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Mark Rivers weds Linda Arhin Mark Rivers tied the knot with Linda Arhin on Saturday 10th September 2016 at Mill Valley Estates Baltimore, Ontario.

Officiating Minister was Pastor Fredrica Walters

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Frankly Speaking Elections for Sale in Ghana: High Filing Fees for Ghana Elections foundation for corruption By: Dr. Michael Baffoe, Winnipeg, MB The Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Ghana are only two months away…precisely on December 7, 2016. The Electoral Commission has asked all Presidential Candidates to file their nomination forms along with a whooping filing fee of fifty thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC50,000).

It should also be remembered that each of the political parties also charged their elected candidates, including the filed ones, very significant amounts of money to contest the races to elect their Party’s candidates.

So before one gets to be confirmed as a candidate for the Presidential election, the total filing fees alone will amount to something closer to, if not above, One Hundred Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC100,000). This is no small amount considering the economic situation and the levels of income in Ghana. So

far seventeen people have filed their papers to contest the Presidential elections in Ghana.

My worry here is that democracy and elections here are now for sale to only those that can afford.

We all know that apart from these ridiculous amounts of “filing fees”, candidates also do a lot of underground payments: bribes and tips to their constituencies, polling stations, regional and national executives before getting elected and confirmed to be the parties’ nominees for the Presidential and parliamentary elections.

So one has to be really “swimming” in money

to afford the contest of Parliamentary and Presidential elections in Ghana. We can then ask ourselves where the candidates get their money from to pay for the huge costs associated with the costs of contesting in the elections.

A lot of people have complained that the filing fee demanded by the Electoral Commission is too high and likely to stifle smaller, not-so-resourced political parties. It may also discourage or even prevent good but not so rich candidates from contesting the elections.

One of the political parties in Ghana, the PPP has even filed an interlocutory injunction at the High Courts in Ghana seeking to prevent the Electoral Commission from imposing these hefty filing fees on the Presidential candidates, but the Electoral Commission is adamant.

They are determined to take their pound of flesh.

Southern Ghana Asafo Flags and Artifacts on Exhibition at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto cont’d from pg. 33 instrumental in the good attendance of Ghanaians to the official opening were in full attendance.

Mr. Chen Shen, Vice P r e s i d e n t - Wo r l d Cultures, ROM in his brief welcome address said that, ‘the exhibition does not only tells a story of Fantes in Southern Ghana but it also portrays the culture of Ghanaians in general.’ And that, ‘the ROM is privileged to showcase Ghana as one of the beautiful cultures of the world.’ H. E. Dr. Sulley Gariba, Ghana’s High Commissioner to Canada who also spoke at the function stressed the importance of the exhibition which has enhanced Ghana’s image o n th e w or ld s tage.

Mr. Emmanuel Duodu, GCAO secretary and Mr. Samuel Donkor President of the Mfantsiman Association also gave

short remarks.

Ms Silvia Forni gave a short history on how the exhibition came to fruition. She made known that Doran Ross, Director Emeritus of the Fowler Museum at UCLA encouraged her to go to Ghana for the Asafo flags and Asafo companies in general instead of worrying about Cameroonian art. She gave gratitude particularly to Tufuhen Nana Kwame Edu IV of the Oguaa Traditional area, the supi and many of the asafoahenfo of the 7 companies in Cape Coast and many other companies in Gomoa Dago, Mankesim, Elmina, Swedru, Anomabu and other centres in the Central Region for their wonderful support her research in Ghana.

She added that the flag makers of the Saltpond,

Kromantse and Swedru workshops have produced some of the flags that are seen being performed and others that are in the gallery.

Ms. Forni then finally expressed her appreciation to H.E. Dr. Sulley Gariba, Hon. Abi Adatsi ( Deputy High Commissioner) Mr. John Bosco Kpebesani, (Consul General) the chiefs and queen mothers, GCAO executives, Prof.

Ato Quaison of U of T, and all the gathering at the event for honoring ROM with their presence.

Mr. Shen and Ms Silvia Forni were given some gifts from the Ghana High Commission.

The opening ceremony was followed with a reception hosted by ROM after which the exhibition of the Asafo flags and artifacts was opened to the public on level 4 of ROM.

What is troubling is that this process of demanding and imposing these high costs for contesting elections in Ghana have the tendency for laying the foundation for corruption in our political system.

Some candidates may have borrowed money or may have taken money from some “rich” people in return for financial favors if the candidates win the elections. When these candidates win their respective elections, they then have the immediate burden of finding and using any means possible to steal money from the same system to defray the costs of contesting the elections.

We h a v e a l l b e e n witnesses to the massive corruption that goes on in our public system and our political system in Ghana. Part of this canker of corruption has its foundation in the way the electoral process is set up.

It is money that talks. No poor person can contest these elections no matter how qualified you are. As enumerated above you need money, lots of it to bribe your way from the grassroots: polling station

level, constituency level, District and Regional Levels to the national party executives. So by the time you finish openly bribing all the people in this chain, you may be deep in a financial hole.

At that level the only thing you hope for is to win so that you can find ways to steal money from the system to repay your costs.

The Presidential system is even more serious. Apart from also bribing your way through the chain we juts described, you need lots of money to criss-cross the country to plead with the electorate to vote for you. Along the way you really have to be “generous” spraying gifts and money…lots of it, attending funerals…lots of it…every weekend and appearing at unnecessary events to be known to the people.

So much power of appointments and disbursement of funds and other goodies are vested in the President of the Republic of Ghana by the Constitution. So whoever wins the Presidential election in Ghana has the opportunity to steal and steal big also to defray

the costs associated with running the elections. The Electoral Commission has been making noise that it is dedicated to clean elections and is committed to promoting and restoring some sanity in our electoral process. If that is the case why should the same Commission impose such high fees for Presidential candidates before allowing them to contest the elections? Is the Electoral Commission not contributing to institutionalizing corruption in our electoral system and by extension the political system?

The Electoral Commission receives lots of funding from the public purse…from the Ghana Consolidated Fund. We also know that the Commission receives a lot of financial and other logistic support from foreign governments and agencies. Why then do they need to impose such high fees on the local candidates for these elections? We are laying the foundation and supporting the institutionalization of corruption in the electoral and political process and this must be stopped.

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The Fear of the 13th Floo rFor those who build towers that rise to ever-moredizzying heights, could the fear of one relatively middling number really factor into their work?

Absolutely. In fact, for years, developers have been more apt to give into triskaidekaphobia—fear of the number 13—than acrophobia.

In New York City, fewer than 10 percent of all Manhattan condominiums that have 13 or more stories actually identify

a 13th floor. The rest favor other numbers like 12B or 14, according to Bloomberg News. Meanwhile, the Otis Elevator Company has estimated that 85 percent of high rises in the world with more than 13 floors did not name a 13th floor.

So what’s the big deal with the number 13?

T h r o u g h o u t h i s t o r y, there’s been a stigma attached to the number…

So what’s the big deal

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with the number 13?

T h r o u g h o u t h i s t o r y, there’s been a stigma attached to the number that’s lasted as long as the Old Testament. The Code of Hammurabi left out a 13th law from its list of rules (an omission that was later found to be a clerical error, according to History. com). Judas Iscariot, the man who was said to have betrayed Jesus, was the 13th person to arrive at the Last Supper.

In Norse folklore, Loki, the mischievous God, was the 13th guest who attended a banquet in Valhalla, uninvited, and orchestrated the murder of another God. The reason builders pay heed to triskaidekaphobia cannot be traced to one particular incident. If anything, it stems from the common fear of the number 13 shared by many cultures. Between 9 and 13 percent of the adult U.S. population

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Hotels, meanwhile, have a long history of omitting the 13th floor to avoid Such superstitions make it scaring away skittish difficult for building owners customers. A 2007 Gallup to market the 13th floor to Poll found that 13 percent residential and business of respondents would be clients alike. bothered by staying in a room on the 13th floor. “[From] the developers’ perspective, even if there’s That doesn’t matter to a 0.01 percent chance it’ll the Palmer House Hilton affect prices, why take a in Chicago, which has risk at all?” says Gabby boasted a 13th floor since Warshawer, director of opening over 140 years ago. The new Virgin Hotels Chicago also has a 13th floor, and the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel is home to Cindy’s, one of the hottest restaurants in downtown Chicago that’s situated—you guessed it— on the 13th floor.

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Lakeside Estate wins court case against Ashaley Botwe Family John Offei Armah

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An Accra High Court, Land Court two (2) per His Lordship Justice G. S Suurbaareh, JA ruled and declared that the land measuring 2,911.53 acres delineated in the Land Title Certificate No. TD 0513, Volume 019 Folio 241 legally belongs to Agri-Cattle Lakeside Estate Ltd. The land, situated at Katamanso in the Greater Region, forms part of the Nungua Stool lands. The Plaintiff – by name John Offei Armah sued as an Executor of the will of one Dr. Emmanuel Maama Boye who died on 24 September 2002, claiming that, the Defendant (Agri-Cattle Lakeside Estate Ltd.) has trespassed onto his land. He further stated that these acts of trespass by the Defendants were brought to his attention in 1998.

The Head of AshalleyBotwe Family who was the 2nd Plaintiff in his Statement of Claim also averred that his Family is the ultimate owner of the land described in the Schedule and Site Plan attached to the Writ of Summons. This Family Land is contained in a statutory Declaration No. 4345 and registered as 761/1977.

The Ashalley-Botwe family went on to aver that the Family has defended its title to the disputed land as being part of a large tract of land belonging to the Family in suit No. L2970/93 which travelled up to the Supreme Court culminating in a Judgment dated 5 th May 2004 in suit No. 24/2004.

According to the 2 nd Plaintiff, his Family, as owners of the disputed land and other adjourning lands, leased the portion in the schedule to Dr. Emmanuel Maama Boye (deceased) around 1970 per a Lease Agreement Registered as No. 609/1970 for Agricultural purposes.

TheAshalley-Botwe family was represented b y D a v i e s Ta w i a h

Ashalley who described himself as a Principal Member, and Acting Chief of the AshalleyBotwe Family.

However the Supreme Court has ruled in the Ashalley-Botwe land in a case entitled; Adjeitey Agbosu & others vrs.

Kote & others (2003 2004) SCGLR 420 that Statutory Declarations are Self-Serving documents without any probate value, yet the Ashalley-Botwe family continues to rely on same to deceive the Courts. In that Supreme Court ruling, the Lands Commission was ordered by the Supreme Court at page 469 to expunge and cancel the Statutory Declaration with Registration No. 761/1977 AC 4345/76.

His Lordship Justice G. S. Suurbaareh also described the Statutory Declaration No. 761/1977 AC 4345/76 as a mere decoration on the records of the Lands Commission.

The case of the 1 st Defendant (AgriCattle Lakeside Estate) was presented by its Managing Director, Noble Prince-Joseph Ayiku who said his grantor is Nungua Stool.

He said the disputed land was granted by the Nungua Stool in 1970 to Black Watch Cattle Breeding from which the company also assigned its interest to the Agri-Cattle Ltd in 1974. He added that the land which comprised 4,244.25 Acres has been registered as No. 390/974.Agri-Cattle Ltd built a bungalow and quarters and constructed dam for its cattle in the 1974, an initiative commended by Col.I.K. .Acheampong’s Government.

The Managing Director of Agri-Cattle Lakeside Estate further stated that in1992, the Government of Ghana acquired portion of its land per the Executive Instrument (E. I. 15) for State Housing Corporation changing the land

use of the area from farming to RealEstate Development. As a result, in 1995, his Company entered into an Agreement with its grantor Nungua Stool, to go into Real Estate Development. He then went on to narrate how in 1996 he applied for a Land Title Certificate to cover the remaining 2,911.53 acres. He tendered series of Search Results from the Lands Commission and Judgmentsgiven in favour of his company, Agri-Cattle Lakeside Estate Ltd. The Nungua Stool was represented by Dr. Nii Kpakpo Sraha III on the strength of a Power of Attorney given by the Nungua Stool. He went on to narrate how the disputed land was first given out to Black Watch Cattle Breeding Farms in 1970 by the Nungua Stool. Then the Lessee later assigned its interest to the AgriCattle in 1974. The Nungua Stool gave its consent to Agri-Cattle to use the land for Real Estate Development. He further stated that the disputed land belongs to the Nungua Stool situated at Katamanso.

According to Dr. Nii Kpakpo Sraha III, the land which was demarcated in 1904

by Francis Gabriel Crowther had been declared in 1892 as part of Nungua Stool land

by Justice Hutchinson of the Supreme Court of the Gold Coast. He also gave an account of other grants made by the Nungua Stool to individuals, companies and Government in and around the disputed land area.

The High Court therefore dismissed the claims of the Plaintiffs: John Offei Armah and the Ashalley-Botwe Family and awarded a cost of Eight Thousand Cedis (GH¢8,000) against all the Plaintiffs. The Court entered Judgment in favour of Agri-Cattle Lakeside Estate Ltd. and the Nungua Stool.

How Insecurity Can Ruin a Marriage Doris Osei Bonsu, Crisis Counselor, Toronto “I’m driving him away, I just know I am,” she sniffed. “It’s just that I love him so much and I can’t bear the thought of losing him!” Kwasi had been badly hurt before by her former cheating fiancé. Once bitten, twice shy. Part of her knew that her new man was decent, caring, and honest, but the emotional bit of Emma felt that it was “just a matter of time” before things went wrong.”If he’s quiet I actually start panicking!

I’m thinking: What’s he planning? Is he going to finish with me? Has he met someone else? If I don’t know exactly where he is I get suspicious. He constantly has to reassure me. What can I do?”Insecurity spoils relationships.

Insecurity drives people to become too ‘clingy’ or needy and this creates problems.Insecurity can strain your marriage and cause it to fail if you don’t take steps to resolve the feelings of insecurity, I believe that some levels of insecurity are normal at the beginning of a relationship, but after the relationship settles into a pattern, insecurity should become less of an issue.

Jealousy and Suspicion Insecurity can cause you to see problems where none exist, leading to suspicions that the partner is engaged in activities he shouldn’t be, such as cheating or hiding something or planning to leave. In reality, your spouse often isn’t doing anything to warrant the suspicions. Distinguish between fiction and reality, realizing that many of your fears will never materialize. Suspicion is sometimes justified if you choose partners who aren’t reliable. If your feelings are unfounded, focusing on the good things in your relationship will help.

reality can help you target what’s wrong.

You can also explain to your partner that sometimes you need validation and let her help you see what she sees in you.

Believe that your partner’s support and love are unconditional until proven otherwise.

Clingy and Needy A clingy and needy partner can make you want to run away to get some space. Your partner needs the freedom to be and do things on his own, and he can’t if you demand that you always know where he is and what he is doing.

This can occur because of your need to control all aspects of the relationship.

Make peace with the unpredictability of life and the relationship, rather than trying to control everything. Find a hobby or something that you find enjoyable so you can turn your energy into something productive.

Baggage of the Past Insecurity can cause you to see visions of the past overlaid on the reality of the present. If you were hurt in the past, it’s normal to have some fears about a recurrence, but remind yourself that your current spouse is not your former partner. Don’t abandon the marriage for fear that the past could repeat itself. Instead, work at making your current relationship healthy and happy, seeking out professional help if you can’t get a handle on the problem by yourself. Don’t turn your spouse into your therapist, counselor or clinical psychologist, because it could burn her out and destroy your relationship.

Reassurance

There are normal ‘mechanisms’ to any relationship. There are ebbs and flows and mood changes, moments of intimacy and closeness and comfortable spaces.

These ebbs and flows are normal.

Wanting to be absolutely close and intimate all the time is like wanting an aeroplane to never make a sound or a movement.

Insecurity can make you anxious and cause you to constantly ask your partner to reassure you of her love and devotion.

You have to work at assuring yourself that things are fine. Challenge what you think is happening with what is really happening and calm your fears by seeing the relationship for what it is. It might not be perfect, but a clear picture of

Next time you feel insecure, ask yourself what it is you are imagining. Write it down on paper under, ‘Stuff I am making up in my head.’ Being able to distinguish between what you imagine and what is actually happening is a massive step toward self-assurance. And it is a giant step towards overcoming your constant and unnecessary feelings of insecurity.

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This column is devoted to answering your questions on health and discusions of diseases which are common among the African Canadians.

MEASLES: What every parent should know Until a few decades ago, measles was an important public health disease that was responsible for many childhood deaths. Thanks to effective vaccines, it was largely eliminated from the front pages. In developing countries like Ghana, it was a devastating disease and a trip to the children’s block at large hospitals like Korle Bu and Komfo Anokye in the seventies presented a sad spectacle of children dying from measles.

Today, it is a thing of the past, but due to misinformation, some younger parents who did not witness this sorrowful sight are making the dreadful m i s t a k e o f re f u s i n g t o vaccinate their children. This article highlights some of aspects of the disease and emphasizes why children should be vaccinated.

The concern about measles and autism is unfounded and should not dissuade any parent from vaccinating their child.

Causes The cause of measles is a virus that replicates in the nose and throat of an infected child or adult.

When someone with measles coughs, sneezes or talks, infected droplets spray into the air, where other people can inhale them. The infected droplets may also land on a surface, where they remain

* Bronchitis, laryngitis or croup. Measles may lead to inflammation of your voice box (larynx) or inflammation of the inner walls that line the main air passageways of your lungs (bronchial tubes). * Pneumonia. Pneumonia is a common complication of measles. People with compromised immune systems can develop an especially dangerous variety of pneumonia that is sometimes fatal. active and contagious for several hours.

You can contract the virus by putting your fingers in your mouth or nose or rubbing your eyes after touching the infected surface.

Risk factors for measles include: * Being unvaccinated. If you haven’t received the vaccine for measles, you’re much more likely to develop the disease. * Traveling internationally.

If you travel to developing countries, where measles is more common, you’re at higher risk of catching the disease. * Having a vitamin A deficiency. If you don’t have enough vitamin A in your diet, you’re more likely to contract measles and to have moresevere symptoms. * Ear infection. One of the most common complications of measles is a bacterial ear infection.

* Encephalitis. About 1 in 1,000 people with measles develops encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain that may cause vomiting, convulsions, and, rarely, coma or even death. Encephalitis can closely follow measles, or it can occur months later. * Pregnancy problems. If you’re pregnant, you need to take special care to avoid measles because the disease can cause pregnancy loss, preterm labor or low birth weight. * Low platelet count (thrombocytopenia). Measles may lead to a decrease in platelets — the type of blood cells that are essential for blood clotting. * Tests and diagnosis * Your doctor can usually diagnose measles based on the disease’s characteristic rash as well as a small, bluish-white spot on a bright red background — Koplik’s spot — on the inside lining of the cheek. If

Genetically modified baby born with DNA from 2 women Mother is a 36-year-old woman who had 4 pregnancy losses and 2 deceased children A baby boy has been born using a “three parent” technique that combines DNA from three individuals, researchers report.

The now-five-month-old was born to Jordanian parents, carried by a 36-year-old mother who had four pregnancy losses and two deceased children who had Leigh syndrome.

Leigh syndrome is a fatal disorder that breaks down the central nervous system, resulting in loss of motor skills and mental ability.

The gene for the disease is found in DNA in the mitochondria, the powerhouse of a cell that provides energy. Mitochondrial DNA is inherited only from the mother.

Writing in the journal Fertility & Sterility, an international team of researchers described the first live birth using human ooyctes, or eggs, using a “three parent” technique.

To achieve conception, the mitochondrial DNA from the Jordanian mother was discarded

and her nuclear DNA kept. That nuclear DNA was then added to a donor egg, which provided the mitochondrial DNA for the baby.

It was fertilized with the father’s sperm.

Study co-author Dr. Taosheng Huang, of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, treats patients with mitochondrial disease, which affects nearly every organ in the body.

Huang says he was “so excited” by the birth and what it could mean for other patients.

“They’re so desperate. You feel hopeless for those people. You want to help them, but you don’t know how to do it. So when I see this success story ... I think, that’s great.”

The procedure resulted in the first live birth of a boy following spindle nuclear transfer, the researchers said in a summary published by the journal. Scientists plan to make a fuller presentation at a meeting next

month.

So far, everything seems perfect with the baby, who was born in New York City, Huang said.

The baby’s health will be closely monitored.

Dr. John Zhang, of the New Hope Fertility Center in New York, led the team, which performed the technique in Mexico, New Scientistmagazine reported.

The technique is not approved in the United States, but Zhang told the magazine: “To save lives is the ethical thing to do.”

Last year, the U.K. Parliament approved a different three-parent technique for Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy in clinical trials.

An earlier technique from the 1990s involved adding healthy mitochondria from a donor to an affected woman’s egg.

Dozens of children were born, but many still developed genetic disorders and the procedure was stopped. Associated Press

necessary, a blood test can confirm whether the rash is truly measles.

Treatment The best treatment for measles is prevention. Once it occurs the mortality rate is very high.

If you or your child has measles, keep in touch with your doctor as you monitor the progress of the disease and watch for complications. Also try these comfort measures: * Take it easy. Get rest and avoid busy activities. * Sip something. Drink plenty of water, fruit juice and herbal tea to replace fluids lost by fever and sweating. * Seek respiratory relief. Use a humidifier to relieve cough and sore throat. * Rest your eyes. If you or your child finds bright light bothersome, as do many people with measles, keep the lights low or wear sunglasses. Also avoid reading or watching television if light from a reading lamp or from the television is bothersome.

If someone in your household has measles, take these precautions to protect vulnerable family and friends: * Isolation. Because measles is highly contagious from about four days before to four days after the rash breaks out, people with measles shouldn’t return to activities in which they interact with other people

during this period. * It may also be necessary to keep nonimmunized people — siblings, for example — away from the infected person. * Vaccinate. Be sure that anyone who’s at risk of getting the measles who hasn’t been fully vaccinated receives the measles vaccine as soon as possible. This includes anyone born after 1957 who hasn’t been vaccinated, as well as infants older than 6 months. * All parents planning a visit to Ghana or other developing countries should ensure that all children are vaccinated against measles before they leave.

Preventing new infections If you’ve already had measles, your body has built up its immune system to fight the infection, and you can’t get measles again. Most people born or living in Canada before 1957 are immune to measles, simply because they’ve already had it.

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cont’d from pg. 42 in Cantonese and Mandarin).

Whether other cities will adopt similar building codes remains to be seen. Don’t expect One Dalton, a 61-story skyscraper i n B o s t o n ’s B a c k B a y neighborhood, to list all of its floors. The building excluded the 13th, fourth and 44th floors from its elevator panels.

The $700 million Millennium Tower Boston also doesn’t have a 13th or 44th floor in the building.

Carpenter & Co., the developers of One Dalton, told The Boston Globe that the goal of not including the superstitious

numbers “is to be aware of and respectful of cultural preferences beyond our own.”

In New York, Toll Brothers, a development firm, is not scared of including the 13th floor in its buildings. One Ten Third, a 21-story luxury condo in Manhattan, lists its 13th floor, and the developers have plans to do the same for two future developments.

Says David Von Spreckelsen of Toll Brothers City Living in a 2013 interview with The Wall Street Journal: “I think it’s a silly thing to be afraid of.”

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In order to stop that increase, the world would have to eliminate fossil fuel emissions completely by 2060.

‘Status quo isn’t on the table’ But this latest benchmark is just one of many that scientists have been warning about for years.

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Harrison said that’s where governments come in — she said leaders will have to be courageous in their plans.

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Hunger costs Ghana GHC4.6bn yearly Hunger and malnutrition, especially among children, cost Ghana over GH¢4.6 billion in 2014, representing 6.4 percent of the country’s GDP, a recent study has found.

T h e s t u d y, e n t i t l e d , ‘The Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA),’ was conducted by the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) as part of the AU’s initiative.

Ghana has recently adopted several long term development plans, namely the African U n i o n ’s e c o n o m i c development agenda.

The country hopes to use the agenda to transition from a lower-middle income country to a highincome country by 2057.

Owing to the fact that the country loses billions of dollars annually due to hunger, Dr. Nii-Moi Thompson, DirectorGeneral of the NDPC, said that the report was essential in showing the government that combating hunger must be prioritized if socioeconomic development was to be achieved.

“There are a number of factors responsible for

placing food and nutrition security on the front burner in our development as a nation,” he said.

“These include the necessity to harness Ghana’s demographic dividend through the creation of a large middleclass which is healthy, well educated and technologically driven.”

Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa, Commissioner of the NDPC’s Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, said one of the major issues to combating hunger in Ghana is the lack of effective government funding and support.

He explained that it is difficult for leaders to invest in initiatives that combat hunger because the results are less visible and slow to surface than constructing a new school.

But according to Prof. Akosa, there are substantial gains to be made from investing in quality nutrition.

He said for every USD $1 invested in ending hunger, there is a USD $16 return.

The report showed that hunger and

malnutrition in children to achieve development. was especially harmful to Ghana’s social and The number of stunted economic development. children was declining on the global scale, AgamaFamilies and hospitals Anyetei said, decreasing have to pay extra costs f r o m 2 2 5 m i l l i o n to treat illnesses in children in the 1990s children associated with to 159 million in 2014. malnutrition; the children themselves have trouble in their development stages which could cause health problems as they age.

The report found that malnourished children attended a year less of school than sufficiently nourished students. The end result, the report found, was that these children referred to as ‘stunted children’ in the report became adults who do not have the health or education to be successful adults.

Margaret AgamaAnyetei, Head of Division, Health, Population and Nutrition in the African Union, said that more than 5.5 million adults in Ghana, or 37 percent of the working population, were stunted as children.

She said that West and Central Africa have seen a rise in stunted children which increased from 19.9 million to 28 million.

The report highlighted key areas that the government, as well as, private

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Alexander Yaw Yeboah and Pauline Dapaah tied the knot at the Transformation Life Centre, 65A Huxley Road Toronto. The officiating ministers were Rev. Dr. Ralph Dartey (Ottawa) and Pastor George Ansah. Reception was at the Plush Paradise Banquet Hall, 7601 Jane St. Vaughan, Ontario.

Their engagement was on the previous day in Brampton

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Final funeral rites of Opanin Moses Kwame Boakye a.k.a. Ndoo, father of Emmanuel Duodu held at the Apostles’ Continuation Church, 10 Belfield Toronto on Saturday September 24, 2016

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Celebration of life of Obaapanin Akua Nsiah a.k.a. Hanna Kyerew mother of Peter Ababio and Henry Mullen held at 40 Panorama Court, #B2 Toronto on Sunday September 4, 2016

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In Memoriam of the Late Madam Monica Baffoe alias Adwoa Adomaah, September 25, 2013 Maame it is with deep sadness as we celebrate three years of your home call.

On Wednesday, September 25th 2013 death snatched you away from us. A huge vacuum was created which will be very hard to be filled.

We sincerely believe that you are resting peacefully in the bossom of our dear Lord. You were such a loving mother, grandmother, sister, auntie and a friend. Your absence will be greatly felt by your entire family as well as friends and loved ones.

Maame may the good Lord keep you till we meet again

Remembered by Children: Amoo-Baffoe, Lucy Amoateng, Kofi Amoo-Achampong, Kwame Amoo-Achampong, Grandchildren, Great grandchildren, in-laws and the entire Baffoe Family of Nkoransaman, Ghanaian Catholic Church & St. Joesph The Worker Catholic Church, friends and loved ones The Late Madam Monica Baffoe (alias Adwoa Adomaah)

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Farewell service in honour of Apostle Sampson Ofori Yiadom& Family

By Jonathan Baah Annobil, Toronto

The MckeownWorship center of the Church of Pentecost (COP) Toronto, Canada was the venue of a befitting farewell service for Apostle Sampson OforiYiadom and his family after two years of headship of the church. The well-attended service was patronized by all the Church Branch pastors and their wives from cross Canada. Apostle Sampson

Aps. Sampson Ofori Yiadom and family with Pastor Joseph Fynn-Sackey giving response

OforiYiadom is on transfer to Chicago, USA as regional head. The officiating minister was Apostle Samuel Kwesi Arthur, Regional Head, Texas Region and National Secretary, COP USA Inc. The theme of the day’s sermon was “You are on God’s mind,” taken from Psalm 8: 3-4 and Job 7: 1718. The conductor for the service was Pastor James MckeownQuainoo. Song ministrations followed immediately after Aps. S.K. Arthur had given the purpose of the gathering by Mckeown Choir and the

Aps. Samuel K. Arthur, officiating minister with Rev. George Amon

Aps. Sampson Ofori Yiadom and family with Pastor Joseph Fynn-Sackey

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Aps. Yiadom with Kingdom Shakers

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Recounting the pastoral history of Apostle Yiadom, Aps. S. K Arthur stated that he and Apostle Yiadomwere “born’ in the ministry the same day. The one who gave ‘birth’ to us is here in the name of Apostle Dr. Alex Osei Bonsu. He said that because the Lord’s hand is upon cont’d on pg. 66

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Aps. Ofori-Yiadom and family being prayed over

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Church of Pentecost Canada welcomes Aps. Dr. Owusu & Family

By Jonathan Baah Annobil, Toronto The Church of Pentecost (COP) Canada on Sunday September 25, 2016 at the Mckeown Worship Center held a welcome service in honour of Aps. Dr. Emmanuel Anthony Owusu& family.

Apostle Dr. Owusu has been a member of the Church of Pentecost since 1973 whilst in Ghana. He was the first Presiding Elder of the Church of Pentecost in Montreal and the English cont’d on pg. 66 Aps. Dr. Francis Bonsu (Spain), Rev. George Amon Aps & Mrs. Owusu with Aps. Dr. Francis Bonsu

Canada ministers dancing to the glory of God

Aps. & Mrs. Owusu and family giving their response

Cross section of congregation

Aps. Owusu and family being prayed over by Rev. Dr. Charles McVety and other Apostles

Cross section of Ministers

Aps. Dr. John K. Appiah (USA) handing over Aps. Owusu to Elder Francis Boateng, National Deacon, Canada

Aps. Dr. Emmanuel Owusu and family

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Dcn. Nana Otu-Achampong handing over Mrs. Patience Owusu to Dcn. Florence Appah

USA ministers dancing to the glory of God with Aps. Owusu

Women’s Fellowship with Mrs. Patience Owusu glorifying God

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Beni Boo Styles WELL MADE - WELL PRICED Fall or autumn is almost my favourite time of the year . The cooler temperatures in september provide relief from the heat and humidity of the previous months and as the leaves on trees transforms and change colours to stunning orange, red and yellow so does our wardrobes, the colours and the fashion.

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One thing that really took me by a good surprise is the large presence of some of these American clothing retail stores that are not even in Canada but are in Dubai and thriving. Fashion have become that universal; so while they are embracing the western world fashion and trends , us in the west , in North American and Africa have embrace their style and indulging in every bit of it .

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Did Councilor Riley Brockington and Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordelean get it all wrong?

Dr. Kokofele Commentary/Opinion I spoke on the phone with the “SUYA SPOT MANAGEMENT and below is the Management’s massage to Canadians: “On behalf of the SUAY SPOT Management, we will want to use this opportunity to send out our condolences and sympathy to the family, friends, the community of Carlington Neighbourhood and to Canada in regards to the unwarranted death of 26 years old Abdi Jama in Ottawa as reported in the media. The Suya Spot Corporate venture has been in business well over ten (10) years. The Suya Spot Management has never been directly or indirectly involved or linked to criminal activities.”

In my honest opinion, I think it is unfortunate that Councillor Riley Brockington and the Ottawa police chief got it all wrong in their rush to blame the sad killing on a innocent legally independent small business like the Suya Spot due to unrelated purported crimes in the strip mall with other business.

This has and will continue to cause untold damages to the Suya Spot.

Councillor and fellow councilors, the Chief of Police and his members take their time to respectfully visit the Suya Spot have a conversation and get organically suyalized.

At the heart of sad saga in my humble opinion is the ongoing “ignorance about a culture and its people.

In my opinion, based on reports so far, it is fair to say that the benefit of the doubt should be giving to a truly Canadian Independent Business like the Suya Spot until otherwise. Please read the below and join the conversation.

I will call on Councillor Riley Brockington, the Ottawa police chief, the media, the landlords and all concern parties to please reframe from accusing the Suya Spot Trevor Pritchard of the Ma na ge me nt of an y CBC News on September wrong doing and allow 26, 2016 reported. due process.

“Councillor. Riley BrockI request that the Mayor ington said he’s met with of Ottawa, the concern the landlord for The Suya

Spot — a restaurant in a strip mall near where 26-year-old Abdi Jama was shot Sunday morning — and asked about having the restaurateurs evicted. The councillor who represents the neighbourhood where a man was shot to death Sunday September 25, 2016 said the community is fed up with the crime happening at a Carlington restaurant and wants it gone.”

“Riley Brockington told CBC News he met Monday morning, September 26, 2016 with the landlord for The Suya Spot — a restaurant in a strip mall near where 26-year-old Abdi Jama was shot — and asked about having the restaurateurs evicted.”

“I made it very clear to the landlord that I would like to see this tenant

removed, that if he can terminate his lease, that is what the community is looking forward [to],” said Brockington.

“We no longer have the welcome mat open and ready for this tenant.

There have been too many problems in the community, and it’s time for them to go, plain and simple.”

The landlord told Brockington he would meet with the tenant this week to have a frank discussion, Brockington said.

Around 6 a.m. Sunday, September 25th, 2016, emergency crews responded to reports of multiple shots fired behind the strip mall at Shillington Avenue and Merivale Road in the city’s Carlington neighbourhood.

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“Ottawa police Chief publicly stated he wants to see the restaurant closed down because of alleged illegal gang activity that goes on inside and around the restaurant.

Bordeleau also pointed to numerous bylaw infractions that have occurred since the Suya Spot opened on Shillington Avenue in 2014.”

Suya Spot manager upset police linking restaurant to gang violence as reported by Idil Mussa of CBC News on September 28, 2016 “The manager of the Suya Spot in Ottawa is upset at the Ottawa Police Service for painting his establishment as a “magnet” of criminal gang activity.”

“We’ve been a huge target. From the very first day we opened … we never got support from the whole community. We never got support from the police,” said Reynolds Okoh.

Ottawa police Chief publicly stated he wants to see the restaurant closed down because of alleged illegal gang activity that goes on inside and around the restaurant.

Bordeleau also pointed to numerous bylaw infractions that have occurred since the Suya Spot opened on Shillington Avenue in 2014.

But Okoh denies any involvement with gangs or having broken any bylaws.

“I’m not a part of any gang,” said Okoh. “We have not been charged by one bylaw officer. Someone got shot in the parking lot. Someone did not get shot inside the restaurant.

The parking lot, we have no control over. If people have disputes ... and it leads to that, how do we have control over it?”

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Wits of Kokofele A vegetarian with an organic love for “Suya bones abi.”

Dr. Kokofele, Comedian PhD, upside down I frequent the Suya Spot to get my dose of bone marrow which I learnt in primary, secondary and my University of Nothing Going (NGO) biology classes to be very good for the good our health.

Unfortunately, students are not taught biology in schools any longer. Sex has become the trendy biology thanks to the uncontrollable and unwarranted sex shows on television and on the internet today for all to see regardless of age. Sadly, some parents miss the point and seem to blame the Ontario government of the day for introducing sex education in school.

Agree or disagree, like it or not for whatever reasons, the children are fact with it. So in my honest

cont’d from pg. 29

opinion, it is best students are educated about life in our global world.

Sorry oh abi. Back to this suya and suyalized matter. As a vegetarian and with the above facts at the back and centre of my mind, I tend to assortalize my veggie dishes as a specialised assorted or cook-up, seeing? That is why; I get the very best of both worlds like the Western Nations that corlabo with Africans to take away billions of dollars, help keep it in their banks and become legal custo-

dians of the crime money, then turn around and publically trash Africans as corrupt while given their countries token donations for developments, what development? Suya development? Is such corlabo not it’s called in “international criminal law collaborators or conspirators to a criminal?

And are equally responsible and punishable in law?

Well let’s get back to the Suya Conversation once more shall we?

Dr. Kokofele personally call the Suya Spot (The Suya Nation) establishment; “THE AFRICAN UNION,” (AU) in Toronto, Canada.

The organic and rooted aromatic smell of Suya has helped amicably many love wars in homes.

Many have testify that by going home after a

long night out with a dose of suya for your better full and family sends an unforgettable massage of love and caring.

Suya is known to inject an organic sense of conversation with police officers when pulled over during a RIDE programme or any traffic related stop. The question is always “what is that inviting smell that makes me so hungry?”

The Suya Spot has become a cultural edutainment Mecca for African-Canadians and other members of the diverse Canadian communities who have either lived and work in various African countries, or folks who were just visiting with a friend or two to for an organic eatery down memory lane while commonly sharing a plate of suya or as we say,” suyalizing.”

The Suya Spot special-

ised eatery, music and sometimes comedy shows has ventured across African cultural boarders.

Africans from the South, East, North and South comes to the Suya Nation to “suyalize and edutain.

Suya Spot helps to inject an organic pride of our collective Africaness.

For many including yours truly, the Suya Spot has become a community edutainment wellness hub that organically helps to overcome the untold and unreported mental health sagas with direct or indirect link to loneliness or stress.

It is at the Suya Spot that the African generation mix mixes to beef out their talents of dealing with bones while showing their political knowledge and get down low on Afro beat dance style to the beat. One get’s

to know the generation one belongs to during or after suyalizing when the priceless golden tooth pick comes out to do its work.

Of course Nigeria and Nigerians for a while now, holds the African musical bragging rights with Ghana and others closely behind. Congo or Zaria, once the Kings and Queens of African music are now sadly in the back seat and no longer that relevant on the dance floor but still critically and frankly speaking the best edutaining LIVE performing artists on stage in my comedic and professional opinion.

Until next time, visit a Suya Spot location near you and join the organic veggie assorted bones or cook-up conversation shall we? Dr. Kokofele says so.

President Obama opens new US Museum designed

by Ghanaian architect, David Adjaye

happened in Tulsa or Charlotte on television, and perhaps are less familiar with not only the history of the African-American experience, but also how recent some of these challenges have been, upon visiting the museum may step back and say, ‘I understand. I sympathize. I empathize. I see why folks might feel angry and I want to be part of the solution, as opposed to resisting change,’ ” the president said.

Weekend of celebration Friday’s White House reception — attended by many of the museum’s contributors — was the kickoff event in a weekend of festivities, which included an outdoor festival.

Nicholas Lorenz has been anticipating the opening for a long time.

“I heard about the museum before they broke ground, and we have been following their Facebook page for two or three years,” Lorenz said of himself and his wife, both educators in Miami, Florida. “We got tickets through the [museum] website the morning they were made available. We got 24 tickets of the 30,000 they made available that day. Apparently, they all sold out within 45 minutes, so we feel lucky!”

The Lorenzes are a mixed-race couple: he is white, and his wife, Liz, is biracial.

The distinction is “irrelevant” now, they say, but it would have been illegal in the United States just a few decades ago. To children of today, that part of history may seem unthinkable.

Painful past Many of the stories in the museum are difficult to think about.

The lowest level of the museum deals with the arrival of Africans in North America — as slaves. Generations of blacks remained in bondage to white farmers for more than two centuries, and the racial divide that system created resonated throughout the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the Black Lives Matter movement that has sprung up in response to conflicts between white

police officers and black civilians today.

A pair of slave shackles are on display in the Slavery and Freedom Gallery in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture during the press preview on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Sept. 14, 2016.

The museum’s founding director, Lonnie Bunch, has been on the job since 2005 and had a part in deciding the museum’s look: dark bronze-colored layers of metal, in contrast to the white Greek Revival structures that dominate the National Mall.

Bunch has said the building should reflect the troubled past the museum describes.

“I wanted a darker building,” he told The New Yorker magazine in April. “There’s always been a dark presence in America that people undervalue, neglect, overlook. I wanted this building to say that.”

The museum’s very location is a reminder of the dark past. While the National Mall, home to more than half of Washington’s Smithsonian museums, is known as “America’s front yard,” it was also once home to slave pens, where human beings of African origin were held like cattle to be bought and sold.

Upward and outward Because of height limits designed to preserve views of all the monuments, 60 percent of the museum is underground.

Visitors start in the basement, with the ugly history of the slavery era. As they advance to higher floors, the story grows more uplifting, although still fraught with conflict.

Civil Rights pioneer Rosa Parks’ dress is on display in the concourse galleries at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall Sept. 14, 2016 in Washington, D.C. The narrative of upward movement is reflected in the architecture designed by British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye.

The building appears to rise from the ground, with exterior panels opening upward and outward toward the blue sky.

Upper levels tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement, when the federal government finally passed laws allowing blacks the same legal rights as whites.

Despite slavery being outlawed in 1864, it took a century for blacks to achieve full legal rights with whites in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Supreme Court decision removing barriers to interracial marriage, the issue that the Lorenzes might have faced, did not happen until 1967.

The top level of the museum, where light pours in and visitors can see a sweeping view of the Mall and the monuments, is a showcase for African-American art.

The Smithsonian Institution has other museums dedicated to American art and African art, but here, the mingled cultures are allowed to shine together.

The museum also features thousands of artifacts from famous African-Americans and everyday citizens. There are so many pieces that the museum plans to exhibit them on a rotating basis.

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey, ranked

by Forbes magazine 21st among the world’s richest women, was a major donor to the museum, contributing not only $20 million from her charitable foundation but also a pair of slave shackles from the mid-1800s, donated from her private collection of artifacts.

Ironically, the collection also includes a pair of handcuffs used in the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, who was arrested outside his own home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2009 by an officer mistakenly assuming Gates was a burglar.

Other artifacts in the collection include: * Several items from a sunken slave ship excavated off the coast of South Africa. * An entire slave cabin, originally found on Edisto Island in South Carolina. * A hymnal and silk shawl owned by Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who led hundreds of other escaped slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

* The glass-topped casket used to display and bury the body of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American whose racially motivated torture and murder in 1955 touched off the Civil Rights Movement. * A dress belonging to Rosa Parks, the woman who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the first acts of mass civil disobedience during the civil rights era. * A PT-13D Stearman biplane trainer aircraft used by the U.S. Army Air Corps to train the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation’s first black military flying unit. * A trumpet played by jazz legend Louis Armstrong. * A Cadillac convertible that belonged to rock ‘n’ roll singer Chuck Berry. * Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves. * A collection of costumes from the Broadway show “The Wiz.” * A pair of size 22 tennis shoes owned by basketball star Shaquille O’Neal.

Chuck Berry’s 1973 Cadillac Eldorado is on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Sept. 14, 2016.

While the story the museum tells is often difficult and sometimes painful, Obama and museum founding director Bunch say the story of black Americans is relevant to all Americans.

Museum-goer Lorenz believes that, as well.

He said understanding the black experience was crucial to understanding what the United States is, even if some of the lessons it teaches are painful for whites to consider.

“This is an essential and foundational aspect of our shared culture and history,” he said. “We welcome the opportunity to engage with all of it — the good and the bad. White guilt and white fragility have kept us from knowing our history for too long as it is.”

More important, Lorenz said, ignoring history bars the way to progress. “Naming our history and fully facing its implications is the only way forward.” voanews.com

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Bringing the Gospel to our Community by Rev. Joseph Osei-Amoah “I HAVE FOUND IT!” In the early ‘70s, “I have found it!” was a popular saying among t h e mem ber s of the Christian Fellowship in Ghana. The use of that slogan was intended to elicit the question, “What have you found?” then the Fellowship member uses the opportunity to share the gospel with the inquirer. When someone suddenly tells you, “I have found it!” the immediate question that comes to mind is, “What has he or she found that is so precious, I want to know it.” That was an effective evangelistic tool in personal evangelism.

May God continue to bless Ghana, where people of diverse religious faith co-exist peacefully.

Unfortunately in many nations Christians are persecuted more than any other group yet more people become Christians.

These persecutors may be wondering what is in Christianity that is worth suffering or dying for?

The main reason is that the genuine follower of the Lord Jesus Christ“has found it”.

The Apostle Paul “found it”; the truth of the gospel Christ, after years of leading a group to persecute the followers of Christ, with the aim of putting out the fire of the Holy Spirit that was burning in the hearts of theapostles of the Lord Jesus, deacons such as Philip and Stephen and

the entire membership of the early church. Years later, Paul declaredhe was ready to die for preaching the good news that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, crucified and raised from the dead, “But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” (Acts 20:24 NKJV) History attests to the fact that persecution of the followers of Christ rather serves like fuel that spreads the revival fire far and wide. It was a common saying that “the blood of the martyr is the seed of the church” My heart goes out to fellow Christians who are in jail, losttheir properties confiscated bythe enemies of the gospel or lost their loved ones. The Lord Jesus predicted, “They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service .

And these things they will do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me” (John 16:2-3 NKJV). What is unique about genuine Christians is that they are not encouraged to hate their persecutors but to pray for them to know the truth. What is the truth?

The Lord Jesus gives the answer to question I posted above, “…I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6 NKJV) Paul explain the truth in Romans 5:1-11 “Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

6 Christ in Our Place For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.

8 But God demonstrates

His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.”

The above text,implies that sinful man has problem with a holy God. After Adam’s rebellion against the will of God, all humanity became sinful. Even the law given to Israel through Moses rather proved how evil the heart of man was toward God and one another but was ineffective to reconcile man with God. However, God’s love toward man He created in His image, made Him send His Son, the Lord Jesus, to offer Himself as fitting sacrifice so humanity could be reconciled to the Holy God. Reconciliation

to accomplish his purpose in his church,” she encouraged the women to emulate the examples of Queen Esther and Deborah who because of their commitment to, and love for God, were used to bring victories to their people. She told the gathering how God is still looking for women who are prayerful, humble, committed and

courageous to accomplish his work in his church.

In her report, the president of the Women’s Ministries, Sister Mardea Solanke narrated some of the helps the group was able to give to the bereaved, new mothers, single parents and the needy both within and outside the church. She reminded the women of the untold hardships

facing many women in our communities and other parts of the world; and how Disciples Revival Church ladies could help to alleviate some of their burdens. Sister Mavis Serwah-Bonsu gave the vote of thanks; after sisters Felicia Asare and Odette Thomas had led the fundraising drive in support of the ongoing activities of the Women’s Ministries.

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Ghanaian Community in Toronto Contributes to the Diaspora Engagement Policy at an cont’d from pg. 18 Organized Forum of government to ensure investments in Ghana by Ghanaians in diaspora; private public partnership (PPP); added tax treaties between Ghana and other countries where Ghanaians reside and do business; re-admission of Ghanaian professionals back into Ghana; dual

our motherland Ghana as citizenship policy and a whole.

ROPAL. The team is prepared After fruitful and strongly t o w e l c o m e m o r e debated discussions it s u g g e s t i o n s a n d was agreed that the c o m m e n t s f r o m engagement policy must Ghanaians in diaspora. r e - o r i e n t G h a n a i a n s Send your contributions b o t h a t h o m e a n d to: diaspora@mfa. abroad for their personal g o v . g h o r w w w . development and that of ghanaiandiaspora.com or ghanacom@ghc-ca.com.

which in turn produces godly character which also leads to hope. This is a life time process which is completed at the appearing of Christ, “2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” (1 John 3:23) Job in his suffering expressed this hope, “ For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another.How my heart yearns within me!” (Job 19:25-27) The world does not have this unwavering hope neither do the persecutors understand. You can also be reconciled to God if only you will accept Jesus Christ as your Savour, “But as many as received Him He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.” (John 1:12) And you can also shout, “I have found it”.

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cont’d from pg. 22

becomes effective when one received Christ as his or her substituteby faith. That moment the sinner is justified by God as if he or she has never sinned. Faith in Christ enables God to deals with the sinner by His grace without judging the individual by his or her sinful life. The holy God then deals with the sinful nature of the repentant through the sanctifying power of the word of God, “Sanctify them by Your truth, Your word is truth”. (John 17:17) The Spirit of God also sanctifies the sinner, “But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth” (2 Thessalonians 2:13)

One may still wonder what advantage does a Christian have over a non-believer since both commit sin.

The difference is that the believer submitted to divine provision for his salvation and is taken through the purifying process of suffering which leads to perseverance,

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Tuesday Prayer: 10:00 a.m-12 noon

Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Friday Prayer 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Last Friday of the month“All Night Prayer”):

7:30 p.m.-12 mid-night Youth Service (Fridays): 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Departmental Meeting (Every other Sunday): 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

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Ghana Calvary Methodist United Church, Toronto Tel: 416-614-6110 647-341-7305 Email: gcmuc.org Invites all Christians to join us to worship and glorify the Living God

Worship Schedule: Sunday Church Service - Akan: English Service

- 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

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10:00 a.m. - 12 noon

Friday

- Prayer Meeting: - 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Saturday

- Organizational Meetings Choir Practice, Singing Band Practice

Bethel Prayer Ministry Int'l

Do you desire to experience the power and the presence of God demonstrated in your life?

Do you want to experience the marvelous work of God's grace in your life?

Then, Bethel Prayer Ministry International would like to invite you to visit their church where the word of God is preached powerfully to release the power of God in your life.

Pastor Dennis Awuku COME AND YOU WILL BE BLESSED Senior Pastor

Contact:

Res. 416-740-6963 Church 416-642-0390 Worship Hours: Sunday Service: 9am - 1pm Tuesday 9am - 2 pm Consultation Wednesday: 7pm - 9p.m.

Friday: 9pm - 12 pm Saturday (Prayer Warriors) 6pm - 8pm Location: 52 Carrier Drive, Unit 12, (Albion/Hwy 27)

Etobicoke, Ont., M9w 5S5

Harvest Christian Church Invites you for a wonderful time with the Lord

Auxilliary Minister Rev. Samuel Victor Mpereh

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647-770-8440

Venue of Worship 65 Mayall Avenue, Toronto, ON Tel: 416-614-6110 Email: gcmuc.org Hamilton Society Stoney Creek United Church (Chapel) 1 King Street West, Stoney Creek, Hamilton Contact: 289-244-5914, 289-700-6815, 289-698-1388

Worship Hours Sundays (Mornings) 10 - 12:45pm Wednesday (Bible Study) 7 -8:30 pm Friday (All Night Prayer) 8-10:30pm Rev Moses Sarpong

Come and Experience the power of the Word Join us at 196 Toryork Drive(Corner of Weston/Finch)

Tel: 416-743-2507

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The Apostolic Church Int'l.

The Apostolic Church International (Toronto Assembly) is a Branch of The Apostolic Church in Ghana Apostle Nii Aryee (Area Supt. Canada-Wide)

Meeting Schedule Sunday (Worship) Wednesday Teaching Service Friday Prayers Friday: Monthly All Night Service Saturday : Movements -

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10:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

10:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m.

5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

THE APOSTLES'

Field Superintendent contact: 416-454-6141 (cell) 905-913-2037 (Res)

CONTINUATION CHURCH INTERNATIONAL (CANADA)

168 Rexdale Blvd.,

North American Headquarters: 10 Belfield Road Toronto, Ont., M9W 1G1 Tel: 416-247-6629 Fax: 416-247-5308

Etobicoke, Ontario, M9W 1P6 Church Office 416-740-1979 Field Secretary: Pastor Cyril Williams - 416-875-9616

Lighthouse Assembly of God Church

Apostle Charles Anokye-Manu

SERVICE TIMES:

2016: OUR YEAR OF LOVING OUR COMMUNITY

SUNDAY SERVICES: 9:00 am-10:30 am Multinational Service 11:00 am-1:30 pm Ghanaian Service WEEKDAY SERVICES: Wednesday - Bible Studies Friday - Prayer Service LOCATION:

Pastor-in-charge: Rev. Boniface Keelson

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm 7:00 pm -9:00 pm

42 Steinway Blvd. Unit 1&2 (Hwy 27/Steeles) Toronto, Ontario, M9W 6Y6

Tel: 416-740-1200 Fax: 416-740-6435 Email:

Website: www.apostlescontinuation.org

lighthouseag@outlook.com Website: http:/www/lighthouseag.ca www.lighthouseagtoronto.org

Worship Service Bible Studies Service All Night Service Deliverance

- Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday 9:00 p.m.

- Friday 9:30 p.m.

- Saturday 4:00 p.m.

Worship With Us At These Branches In Canada

Toronto

Montreal Assembly

10 Belfield Road Tel: 416-247-6629

378 Cremazie East Montreal, Quebec, H2P 1E5

Scarborough Assembly

63 Howden Rd., Unit 'F' Scarborough, ON, M1R 3C7 Pastor In-Charge: Pastor Ohene Kena Tel 647-850- 0142 Fax 416-945- 9445

Tel: 514-271-9083 Pastor-In-Charge: John Arhin

Contact: Res: 450-687-4916 Cell: 514-654-6178

Assembly of God Power of Grace Chapel Int'l Immanuel Church, Scarborough Invites all Christians, Non-Christians and members of the Resurrection Power Tradition to join us worship the Great Jehovah

Sunday School: 9:30am -10:30am Church Service: 10:30am - 12 noon

Place of Worship:

350 Deerhide Cres, North York, ON Days And Time of Worship Sunday - Divine Worship - 10a.m. - 1p.m.

Wednesday - Bible Studies 8p.m. - 10p.m.

Friday - Prayer / Deliverance - 7p.m. - 10p.m.

Rev. Joe Bonnah Pastor-in-charge

Contact Lines: Tel: 416-321-2796 (Pastor's Res) 289-981-1547 (Church)

Cell: 647-921-2414

Rev. Douglas O. Ansah Pastor-in-charge

LOCATION Don Montgomery Community Centre 2467 Eglinton Ave. E. Scarborough, Ont., (Kennedy/Eglinton Subway Station) For more info contact:

647-880-4216

Email: immanuelscarborough@gmail.com Website: immanuelaog.ca.

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Did Councilor Riley Brockington and Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordelean get it all wrong? cont’d from pg 60 know Jama personally and that the recent violence is not a reflection of his restaurant or the people who attend it.

“These things have happened in places like Parliament, places like the mall … even downtown Ottawa. In front of clubs, in front of hotels,” he said. The Suya Spot has been the target of police harassment even before it opened its doors on Shillington Avenue, Okoh said. In 2012 the restaurant had a smaller location on Somerset Street.

“When we were on Somerset … in a small pick-up location, we were doing very good. We were extremely busy,” said Okoh.

“We got to the point our community, the African community, they said they wanted a bigger place. They wanted a place that they can come and sit and call home and dine. That’s why we started the adventure of looking for a bigger place.”

But the old location was

plagued with police visits, Okoh said. “Police would park outside the little restaurant and they would see these guys coming out with [a] bag of food. They would stop them and ask them, ‘What do you have in the bag?’”

The police presence in the new Carlington location has not been much different, said the Thunder Bay native. According to Okoh, police have searched the premises unexpectedly numerous times in the middle of night. They’ve raided this place … [and] they’ve found nothing,” he said.

Meanwhile, Okoh said he wants the authorities to respect his right to do business and to treat his establishment like any other in the community.

“We want the police, we want the chief of police, we want the city councillor to respect us like every other business. We are independent business owners. We’re just trying to make a living. We’re trying to contribute to the community,” he said.

Church of Pentecost Canada welcomes Aps. Dr. Owusu & Family

cont’d from pg. 55

Assembly in Toronto. He was called to the full time ministry as a probationary Overseer in 1995 in Toronto and called to the pastorate in 1999 and was then transferred to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

He was appointed the Western Canada coordinator of the Church of Pentecost by the General Council of the church in 2001. He was sent to France to head the Church of Pentecost for six years after the General Council of the church in 2003 had commissioned him as missionary.

He became an apostle in 2006 and was sent to USA as a missionary to head the church in 2009 during the general council meeting.

Apostle Dr. Francis Bonsu, National Head, Church of Pentecost Spain, was introduced by Pastor Joseph Fynn-Sackey the conductor of the welcome service who gave the purpose of gathering and introduced the incoming minister. He was the officiating minister who gave the word ministration under the theme “Our lives are a work in progress ,” taken from Jeremiah 18:1-6.

Hepointed out that as Christians we should believe that when we believe the Lord as a Christian the Spirit of the Lord comes upon usWhen we meet the Lord, our inner lives will determine who we are. God is able to redesign what is spoiled. The Lord has many plans and will choose one for you so just stay in His hands.

Then Apostle Dr. Francis Owusu read the profile of Apostle Dr. Emmanuel Owusu after which Deaconess Nana OtuAchampong, US National Women’s leader handed over Mrs. Patience Owusu to Deaconess Florence Appah, Canada National Women’s leader.

Thereafter, Aps. Dr. John K. Appiah, (Regional head US) flanked by apostles, pastors and wives and a large contingent from US also handed over apostle Dr. Emmanuel Owusu to National Deacon, Elder Francis Boateng of Canada amid thunderous applause. It was followed by a prayer for Apostle Dr. Emmanuel Owusu and his family led by Dr. Charles McVety, President of Canada Christian College, Toronto and all the apostles at the service.

Closing prayer was offered by Aps. ( Retired) KwesiAckah-Baidoo with Apostle Dr. Emmanuel Owusu giving the benediction. All the pastors of the various branches across Canada were on hand to welcome the apostle. Apostle Dr. Emmanuel Owusu is married to wife Patience with 5 children and 5 grandchilren.

Farewell service in honour of Apostle Sampson Ofori Yiadom& Family cont’d from pg. 54 you, nothing will befall on you . The Lord knew Apostle Yiadom will be born in Ghana, travel to US, go through the hierarchy to become an apostle, go to Germany, then to Canada and is now going to US. God does things in His own time.He added that when you are on the Lord’s mind, He always answers your prayers.

Various testimonies were then read which proved the impact his headship has had on the church eg.vision 2019, his ministerial indices which shows the growth of the church in membership and the exponential growth of the church’s finances.

The pastors and elders then went and bid adieu to ApsotleYiadom and his family which was followed by presentation

of parting gifts by the Women Fellowship after which a citation was presented to them by Rev. Dr. Alex Gyamera on behalf of the National Executive Council.

In his response, Aps. Sampson OforiYiadom thanked the congregation for the reception given them and said that he could not have achieved what he did without t h e i r h e l p . A p s . D r.

Alex Osei Bonsu, the first missionary to build the foundation of COP assured the congregation of his love and prayers for them. The Closing prayer was offered by Mrs. Mary Arthur and Aps. S.K. Arthur gave the benediction.

Apostle Sampson OforiYiadom is married to Millicent and are blessed with 4 children, Emmanuel, Noel, Sebastien and Jeffrey .

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GHANAIAN ANGLICAN CHURCH OF TORONTO 1796 Lawrence Avenue West (Jane & Lawrence) Sunday: Bible Study - 2pm-3:00pm

Sunday Worship - 3pm-5:00pm Tuesday: Teaching/Prayer - 7pm-9:00pm Thursday: Prayer Meeting - 10:30am-12noon - 7pm-9:00pm Friday: Prayer Meeting

Saturday: Group Meetings - 3pm-7:30pm Bro. Sam Hector Morris (People's Warden) 905-792-9761 Bro. Bernard Kufuor (Priest's Warden) 647-928-9370 Sis. Vida Oduro (Secretary) 416-830-2309

Welcome Home Evangelistic Ministries Affiliated with the Evangelical Church In Canada

Gen. Overseer & Founder: Evang. & Prophetess Winnie Manu BRE, M. Div.

Worship Celebration Services Sunday Worship Celebration: 10 a.m.

Wednesday: Bible Studies - 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Friday: Intercessory Prayer Meeting 8:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Friday: Youth Night - 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Healing Service: Last Sunday of every month

Place of Worship Cheyne Middle School 236 Queen Mary Drive Brampton, ON L7A 3L3

Christian Hope Ministry Int'l Invites You All To Come Worship With Us Apostle-in-charge: Apostle Twumasi Ankrah

Tel: 647-344-6726 Cell: 416-200-2453 TIME OF WORSHIP: Sunday 10:30 am - 1:30 pm Tuesday 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Friday 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Apostle Twumasi Ankrah

VENUE: 1177 Finch Dr. #20, North York "And these signs will follow those who believe, in My Name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them, they will lay hands on the sick , and they will recover. Amen (Mark 16:17)

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Transformation Centre Assembly of God Church, Mississauga Join us on Sundays for worship at: Venue: Clarkson Community Centre (Margaret Marland Room) Address: 2475 Truscott Drive, Mississauga, Ont (Southdown Rd/Truscott Dr. on Winston Churchill Blvd/Truscott Dr.

Time: 10.00AM-1.00PM

Contact Info: Tel: 647 210 7057 Fax: 905 495 4789 Website: www.wheministries.org

Email: whemtoday@gmail.com

Glory Pentecostal Ministry of Toronto Pastor-in-charge: Rev. Rockson Owusu Atwima - 416-708-7742

Invites all Christians and Non-Christians to join us to worship the Almighty God WORSHIP SCHEDULE Sunday Regular Service 11:00 am to 1:30 pm Tuesday Prayer and Healing Service 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friday Prayer Night 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm

PLACE OF WORSHIP 230 Eddystone Ave., #207, North York, Ont. M3N 1H7 We are more tan our conquerors Romans 8:37 "Come and see the manifestation and the power of the Holy Spirit at work"

Praise Temple of Christ International Snr. Pastor: Apostle Osei-Bonsu 336 Gary Ray Drive @ Signet Worship Schedule Sunday Worship - 10 am - 12:30 pm Wednesday - Bible Study - 7 pm - 9 pm Friday - Prayer Meeting - 8 pm - 10 pm Second and last Friday of each month All Night Prayer Meeting 10 p.m. - 2 a.m.

Apostle Osei Bonsu

Contact: Pastor Isaac K. Bonful Tel: 289-814-5482 Email: transformcentreag@yahoo.ca www.transformationcentreag.ca "...Be transformed by the renewing of your mind..." Romans 12:2a

For information call: 905-840-7387, 647-208-1093 416-209-9136, 647-710-2573 Pastor Appiah Jacob

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Around the Ghana Sports Scene Kwesi Nyantakyi wins FIFA Council seat Kwesi Nyantakyi swept onto the FIFA Council with on Thursday when securing 31 votes in a very close race in Cairo.

The 47-year, who is the President of the Ghana Football Association, finished second in the race which was won the CAF vice-president Almamy Kabele who had 37 votes.

Nyantakyi beat Madagascar’s Ahmad by just one vote as the man from Southern Africa secured 30 votes.

The GFA president becomes the first Ghanaian to serve on world football’s powerful cabinet.

He was standing the election to the new-look FIFA Council where Africa has been given two additional seats in FIFA’s cabinet.

The expansive field of candidates for just two seats is a departure from previous contests to decide Africa’s representation on the all-powerful FIFA executive, which have previously been painstakingly choreographed by long-standing GFA Chief Kwesi Nyantakyi president Issa Hayatou.

FIFA’s cabinet was significantly expanded as part of reforms introduced by new president Gianni Infantino.

But this time, with his own future uncertain after almost three decades at the helm of African football, he allowed his lieutenants to scrap among The 36-member FIFA each other for the posts.

Council will hold its first meeting in Zurich on Oc- The newly elected memtober 13-14. bers will only sit on the council until March next Its replaces the tarnished year when another round 24-member executive of elections will be held committee and takes re- at the 2017 CAF Consponsibility for setting the gress in Addis Ababa on overall strategic direction March 17. of world football’s gov- GHANAsoccernet.com erning body.

Bissah’s scholarship is ‘clean’ Lutterodt A former chairman of the Ghana Athletics Association George Lutterodt says Martha Bissah is happily studying at the Norfork State University and a claim that the scholarship has been suspended is fallacious.

Lutterodt’s reaction is at the back of some negative media reports which that the Norfork State University had suspended the athlete’s scholarship because she presented fake educational documents.

Bissah who won Gold at the 2014 Youth Olympics in China is on a full scholarship worth $32,000 at the Norfolk University in Virginia, USA and Lutterodt believes these falsehoods will force the young athlete to naturalize for another country.

“If anybody has any proof or evidence of the scholarship of Martha Bissah that it has been suspended let him or her bring it forward. You can contact the likes of Aziz Zakari et al who are all old students of Norfolk University.

The Ghana lead striker who was in the 2014 squad that lost on penalties to Italy,says management’s decision to bring the team to Jordan a week ahead of the tournament has paid off and has helped them adapt to the weather conditions.

According to her, personally she it has also helped her improve in terms of performance and is hoping to do better than she did in Costa Rica two years ago.

Sandra who was then just 14 years in 2014 scored a very wonderful goal in Ghana’s game against Korea DPR and her performance on the day saw her win the best player award for that particular match.

“Training has gone on very well for us in Jordan and it has really helped because we are now used to the weather conditions here”, the Ghana skipper said in an interview with Ghanafa.org.

FIFA fighting racism ‘seriously’ despite ending task force MANCHESTER, E n g l a n d - - F I FA’s abolition of its antiracism task force was denounced as a shameful betrayal on Monday as the governing body went on the defensive to reaffirm its commitment to fighting discrimination.

The Associated Press revealed Sunday that the anti-racism group was being dismantled after FIFA decided that its mission had been completed after three years.

Kick It Out , English soccer ’s antidiscrimination organization, said it was “perplexed” by FIFA’s decision, given the World Cup is being staged in 2018 in Russia “which is notorious for racism and abusive activities towards minorities.”

Jordanian federation president Prince Ali said he found it “incredibly worrying” that the task force was being scrapped given the “very real and “This is a disgrace and this girl will apparent” discrimination never ever run again for Ghana because problem that remains in of the way they are playing with the soccer. athlete’s life”, he told Starr Sports.

“The fight against racism The Youth Olympian left the shores of is far from over and the Ghana last month to pursue her higher notion that the current education in athletics.ghanasportson- FIFA leadership believes line.com that the ‘task force’s recommendations have been implemented’ is shameful,” said Prince A l i , a f o r m e r F I FA presidential candidate and FIFA vice-president.

“Now the idea that FIFA believes that it’s the “For us, as a team our collective objec- right time to disband its tive is to do better than the 2012 squad anti-racism task force is that won bronze. We want to qualify ridiculous.” from the group stage and focus on finishing as winners or at least runners up P r i n c e A l i b e l i e v e s at the tournament”, the Ghana skipper the task force should said. have been empowered to work further with “Just as I scored that goal to win a best soccer authorities and player award two years ago, this year I g o v e r n m e n t s t o u s e am targeting to score more and hopeful- t h e s p o r t t o t a c k l e ly emerge as top scorer of tournament”. discrimination in wider society.

Sandra also called for the support of all Ghanaians as the team goes into their “There is still so much opening match against defending cham- work to do, and FIFA must show leadership, pions Japan on Saturday October 1. take responsibility for “We know the Japanese are good at pos- reform and be accountable sessing the ball so our strategy against if change isn’t put into them in the opening match will be to practice,” Prince Ali said. defend very well and keep the ball away “Transparency, trust, from them”, she concluded. credibility and integrity Ghana’s U-17 female side will open are the values that should their World Cup campaign at the Prince run through everything Mohammed International in Al Zarqa FIFA does. Not tackling the plague of racism and on Saturday. Kick off is at 4:00pm discrimination properly (13:00pm GMT). Ghanafa.org is an absolute betrayal of those values.”

Sandra Owusu Ansah targets topscorer award at U-17 World Cup Black Maidens captain Sandra Owusu Ansah says she is targeting the top scorer award at this year’s FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup which will kick off over the weekend.

with Jonathan Baah Annobil

The task force was established in 2013 by then-FIFA President Sepp Blatter and headed by Jeffrey Webb, a vicepresident of world soccer’s governing body until he was arrested in 2015 as part of the American investigation into soccer corruption.

We b b , w h o p l e a d e d guilty to racketeering charges, was replaced in September 2015 as task force chairman by Congolese federation president Constant Omari.

“The reality, as with many programs within FIFA, is that the task force was never given real support since its conception and its role was more about FIFA’s image than actually tackling the issues,” Prince Ali said.

FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura fended off the criticism, insisting her organization remains committed to combatting discrimination in the world’s most popular sport.

“The task force had a very specific mandate that to our knowledge it has fully fulfilled,” Samoura said at the SoccerEx convention.

“Its recommendations have now been turned into a program and a strong one.”

Samoura was appointed in May as the organization’s first female and first African top administrator o f w o r l d s o c c e r ’s governing body as part of the overhaul under Gianni Infantino. The Senegalese former United Nations official said her “presence here is a strong testimony that for FIFA, it is a zero tolerance policy” on discrimination and it is an inclusive organization.

Responding to criticism of the task force being shut down, Samoura said, “We can live with perceptions, but we are taking very seriously our role as the world governing body of football to fight discrimination.”

Kick It Out urged FIFA to publish a “clear and concise strategy” on its fight against discrimination and promotion of equality.

It was one of three organizations in the running for FIFA’s new

diversity award , which was won by Indian organization Slum Soccer at a ceremony in Manchester dominated by questions to Samoura about the anti-racism task force.

Although racism is no longer rampant in English soccer, 402 incidents of discrimination were recorded by Kick It Out last season -- up more than 40 per cent from two years earlier, although reporting mechanisms have been enhanced.

“There is clear evidence that discrimination, prejudice and hate are on the rise in developed societies, particularly in Europe but also in different forms across the world,” Kick It Out said in a statement. “Football should seek to lead the way in combating such intrusions.

“It is clear that organizations that are actively campaigning against racism and discrimination will be deeply disheartened to hear news of the disbandment, as they look to FIFA for leadership in a game which is so popular across the world.”

The pressing problems for FIFA are in Russia with less than nine months until the country stages the Confederations Cup, the warm-up event for the 2018 World Cup. Earlier this month, E u r o p e a n s o c c e r ’s governing body, UEFA, ordered Russian club Rostov to close a section of a stadium for a Champions League game as punishment for the racist behaviour of fans.

The most recent research from the Moscow-based SOVA Center and the UEFA-affiliated FARE Network reported a surge in the number of racist displays by Russian soccer fans, with most cases going unpunished. Researchers logged 92 incidents of discriminatory displays and chants by Russian fans in and around stadiums in the 2014-15 season, compared to a total of 83 for the previous two seasons combined.

Source: The Associated Press

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