Welcome to the Canadian National Multilingual News Group (CNMNG). This is a project made possible through funding by Canadian Heritage. CNMNG aims to gather news researched and written by a corps of Canadian-based journalists/writers from the country’s multilingual community groups. The overall goal is to inform, analyze and critique the issues of the day in a professional manner and to provide that to publishers and editors active in the ethnocultural-multilingual press and media whose experience provides them with a perspective that is sensitive to news relevant to their own language group.
TORONTO – The new Omicron variant scares Canada. In our country, as in the rest of the world, concern is growing about this new strain of covid-19 discovered for the first time in South Africa that has already been identified in Germany, England, Italy and other European countries. →
TORONTO – First snow of the season, today, in Toronto which woke up all white. According to data from Environment Canada, many areas of the GTA received between five and eight centimeters of snow on Sunday morning while two to five more were expected between the afternoon and evening. →
TORONTO – Despite the snow has whitened everything, it was a black weekend in Ontario on the Covid front. Today 964 new cases were registered, the highest number reported in a single day since last May 30, when 1,033 cases were detected. But Saturday and Friday wasn’t better, with – respectively – 854 and 927 infections. Now the seven-day moving average is 760, last week it was 645. And the positivity rate also rises: with 29,692 tests processed in the last 24 hours and 964 cases detected, it is now 3.2%. →
TORONTO – It is only a first step, but for defenders of the Constitutionally mandated catholic Schools system in Ontario, the vote to establish a new executive at the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) on November 25 augurs positively. →
Black Friday sales aside, now Cyber Monday deals entice customers to spend as the holidays draw near. However, small businesses are still reeling from the impacts of Covid-19 and the ongoing labour shortages combined with supply chain disruptions present further challenges in trying to build back lost revenue over the past 19 months.
According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), about 61% of small businesses have yet to meet their pre-pandemic revenues. Another 22% say they will not make it passed another six months at the current level of revenue loss. Time may be running out.
