Not much is known about soccer or soccer players in Canada. Afri-Can magazine recently had a chat with Jean Jacques Bosco(photo), an African-Canadian soccer player and coach based in Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada. Excerpts:
Afri-Can Magazine: Please tell us a bit about yourself and the work you do including the businesses you operate.
Jean Jacques Bosco: Well, my name is Jean Jacques Bosco. I am a Canadian who immigrated to Canada in 1998. I was born in the African Great Lakes region (...)

By Our Correspondent.
The ambition of Vancouver, Canada based Chief Moses Umba(photo) to be the next governor of Ebonyi State got a boost recently when a legal luminary and one of Nigeria’s leading lights in international advocacy, Mr. Azuba Ananaba, during a recent visit to Nigeria expressed support for the gubernatorial ambition of Umba, saying that "Umba will be the best thing to happen to Ebonyi State in 2011."
Ananaba spoke in Lagos while fielding questions from journalists. He said (...)

Monday May 12, 2008 was the birthday of Marcus Bobson Alexander Sesay(photo), son of Vancouver, Canada, based Sierra Leonean soccer maestro and sports promoter Bobson Sesay. He will be a year old.
The Patriotic Vanguard wishes young Marcus a very happy birthday in advance and congratulations to his proud parents.
The father, Bobson Sesay, emigrated to Canada in 1993. He used to play for Bai Bureh Warriors and Leone (...)

NDP MPs Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminster) and Bill Siksay (Burnaby-Douglas) joined with the City of Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan and Burnaby-Edmonds MLA Raj Chouhan to condemn the Conservative government changes to the Immigration Act at a press conference at the Burnaby Mosque and Education Centre.
“These proposals are a serious change to IRPA”, noted Peter Julian (MP Burnaby-New Westminster). “They should not be buried deep in a budget bill. The Conservatives are looking to create an (...)

Summary by Mary Joan Ayoub
After a nice welcome by Dr. Robert Adamoski, the Associate Vice President of Research and dean of Social Sciences at Kwantlen University College, seven professors and one lecturer discussed about “Racial Profiling at Borders” at a conference held at Kwantlen University College in Surrey, BC. Dr. Charles Quist-Adade(photo), a professor at Kwantlen University College, discussed about many interesting examples and made it clear that race is a concept invented by human (...)