Alma Latina celebrates its Third Birthday!
Alma Latina Online Magazine turns 3 today! How time flies when you’re having fun! This effort has been a labour of love from day one, born out of a desire to inform and serve the two communities that we are so intrinsically connected to: the Hispanic community, our wonderfully rich and diverse culture we were so blessed to be born into and so fiercely proud to be a member of, and the Canadian community, the country that welcomed us,...
Celebrating International Women’s Day – 2014
On this very important day for women all over the world, International Women’s Day, all of us—men and women—need to take a moment to pause and reflect on the many obstacles we’ve overcome, on everything that we’ve achieved and all the seemingly insurmountable issues and problems we’ve yet to conquer. We are lucky to live in a society where we all (or most), as a unity, understand and fight for gender equality—unlike many of our...
Happy 2nd Birthday, Alma Latina!
Today Alma Latina Online Magazine celebrates its second birthday. As I wrote in that first editorial on March 1st of 2012, this online magazine started out as a project, a blog really, where I would be able to continue to write and report on what was going on with the Hispanic community (many of whom I had worked with for many years as a freelance writer and photographer) and to try to be a bridge for our community and mainstream...
Alma Latina’s Top 10 Romantic Novels of All Time
In honour of Valentine’s Day and as a tribute to romance and love, we thought we would present a list, by no means exhaustive, of what in all my years as an avid reader I’ve considered to be the most romantic novels I have ever come across—having read countless novels, both in Spanish and English since I was a child. There are many lists out there, selected by people whose profession it is to do this kind of thing. I am by no...
Canadian Periodical Fund presents grant to Alma Latina Online Magazine
We are extremely proud to announce that last Friday Alma Latina Online Magazine was presented with a grant from the Canadian Periodical Fund on behalf of the Department of Canadian Heritage. The event took place at the Harmony Martial Arts & Fitness Center and it was hosted by owners Raymond and Helene Ata, along with club co-owner Linda Raponi. The announcement of the grant, as well as a commemorative certificate, thanking Alma...
Cultural Media Reception with Prime Minister Harper
Last week Alma Latina Online Magazine was invited to a Cultural Media Reception with Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen Harper. It was an invitation extended to several multicultural media outlets in the City of Toronto, and we were very honoured to be a part of the event, which took place the International Plaza Hotel in the west end of the city. Lea la Versión en Español al Pie de la Página. For those...
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