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Recently, Marie and I attended the 28th Black Tie Bingo gala, a fundraising event presented by Co-operators and Meridian Credit Union in support of the Guelph General hospital. It was a successful event as $339,000 was raised to bolster women’s healthcare services at the hospital. The funds will be used to purchase patient care equipment […]

Tax season is now officially on. We are ready for you…are you ready? Last weekend, Nibia and I attended the Black Physicians Association of Ontario (BPAO) annual symposium in Downtown Toronto. It was great to meet new faces and to reconnect with clients and other partners in Black health. I’m always blown away by the

I trust you all had a great Family Day weekend! We had a blast at an event hosted by the Nigerian Community in Halton showcasing Nigerian culture and celebrating black history month. Many thanks to all the organizers, the volunteers, the youth participants, special guests and all those in attendance at the Queen Elizabeth Community

Last weekend, I joined 1,300 other men at the 2024 FREE INDEED Men’s Conference where we explored the meaning of biblical manhood. The message from Pastor Bryan Loritts was particularly eye-opening as he went through the five stages of a man’s life – Boyhood; Adolescence; Manhood; Mentor; and Patriarch – and discussed the courage we

For the chess lovers out there, we now have a new World Chess Champion that is not Magnus Carlson! Congratulations to the new World Chess Champion, the Chinese Grand Master (GM), Ding Liren who came into this championship match as the underdog. What an exciting match we got from these two brilliant GM’s who gave

What an awesome week we’ve had with the weather in the GTA. I hope you made some time to enjoy some outdoor activities this past week. There is so much going on with the personal tax filing deadline quickly approaching and for the chess fans out there, we have an exciting World Chess Championship going

Recently, I joined my team to attend a breakfast briefing event sponsored by Sage Canada and organized by Foundation Magazine for the philanthropic sector in Canada. It was an insightful event on impact of new trends, new tech, and digital transformation in the not-for-profit sector, a significant part of our practice at GMS Professional Corporation.

We were in Downtown Toronto last night for the screening of Protégé, a movie written and directed by a young emerging filmmaker, Kandice Smith. What a talented young lady she is and what a great first movie. It was such a pleasure to meet her and her team of talented crew. I encourage all of

It’s so challenging to keep up with so much news in the media these days – bank failures, housing market uncertainty, tech companies laying off in massive numbers, AI technology advancement with Chat GBT, inflation still holding up, high interest rates and many more…how do you make sense of all of these? Well, this is

What a relief this week as the Bank of Canada held interest rate at 4.5%. How long will this last? We don’t really know. Recall that the interest rate has been raised 8 consecutive times and south of the border in the US, the Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank testified this week in congress