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Mrs. Money Baggs wants to be a billionaire.

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--> She wants Millennials to come along.  Toronto author publishes new book By Stephen Weir  Mrs. Money Baggs has made a lot of money since she created her first gig in Malvern. At 5 years of age, she picked flowers and sold them to her neighbours on their way home from work. Since those early days as a childhood entrepreneur, Mrs. Money Baggs (aka Nicolle Williams) has made a name for herself by knowing all about money – how to make it, how to keep it and how to make a nest egg grow!   She earned the nickname of Mrs. Money Baggs, because, as she writes “my friends, colleagues, and clients all consider me the go-to person for all things personal finance.” Williams was named as one of   “100 Black Women to Watch in Canada” and in 2016 was one of 150 black women who were featured by CBC in 2017. She is the host and creator of “Money Tube,” and is also the co-creator of “Money Boss Up,” a financial academy that works directly with millennials to push them to achi

Getting Buns Of Steel: It Is All Done By The Book

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New Body. New Book. And Check Out His Bamboo Fibre Underwear By Stephen Weir Jamaican Canadian fitness guru Andre Rose is holding a book launch tonight and he knows that everyone is going to want to look at his Buns of Steel.   No, not his rear end (although the former body building is in fine fine shape) it will be about his just published book, Buns of Steel: The Unstoppable Pursuit Of Fitness. The evening launch of his first book is taking place the Brunswick Bierworks in York. The 39-year old has spent the last two years working on a book that   is meant to help men get fit, healthy and age gracefully with a healthy mind and body. "This will help you break out of your mediocrity and negative mindset, and get you onto a new, exhilarating, passionate path of divine purpose and a life of freedom!" "The time to think about your health isn't once you turn 70, it is now when you can still do something!" he told the Caribbean Camera in a sit-down int

Brother wins Toronto Book Award

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DAVID WINS BIG ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT Photo by: Ceta Ramkhalawansingh Story by Stephen Weir  On Wednesday night Trinidadian Canadian writer David Chariandy’s award winning novel, Brother has won thi s year’s Toronto Book Awards. David Chariandy’s book is a devastating story about the love between a mother and her sons, the impact of race, masculinity and the senseless loss of young lives in Scarborough, in the violent summer of 1991. Brother was one of five books on the City of Toronto and Toronto Library‘s 2018 Toronto Book Awards shortlist. Established by Toronto City Council in 1974, the awards honour books of literary merit that are evocative of Toronto. The 2018 shortlist  Dionne Brand “The Unpublished City“  David Chariandy “Brother“  Carrianne Leung “That Time I Loved You“  Lee Maracle “My Conversations with Canadians“  Kerri Sakamoto “Floating City“ The winner of the 2018 Toronto Book Awards was announced last night at the Toronto Reference Library. This i