OTTAWA – Yesterday Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government will take steps to end the use of the Emergencies Act after it was invoked just over a week ago, even though it was set to expire after 30 days, in response to the ongoing trucker convoy blockades and protests.
TORONTO – Was anyone wearing long pants part of the planning for that Press Conference? Did anyone develop talking points or rehearse the Q and A? Rhetorical musings, sorry, I wanted to be polite.
TORONTO – The hospitalizations decrease almost every day, the positivity rate as well but there is a number that never goes down, in the daily Covid-19 data: that of deaths. Today in Ontario, 41 were registered and, even if the Ministry of Health is keen to emphasize that most of these are “earlier” deaths, the data cannot fail to worry and in any case raises the tragic death toll in the province, from the beginning of the pandemic, to 12,347. (more…)
With the largest vaccination campaign underway, the province has administered more than 31.5 million doses into the arms of Ontarians. According to data last updated on February 24, numbers released by the Ministry of Health show health officials administered 29,826 vaccine doses on Wednesday, down from 30,467 doses the day prior.
Prosegue sul Corriere Canadese pubblicazione degli articoli dedicati all’immigrazione italiana in Canada, che prendono spunto dalla storia degli oggetti che gli emigrati hanno portato con sé nel viaggio dal Belpaese alla nuova terra. L’iniziativa rientra nel progetto “Narrarsi altrove, viaggio tra i cimeli e i luoghi dell’anima” della poetessa Anna Ciardullo Villapiana e della docente Stella Paola, con la collaborazione di Gabriel Niccoli, professore emerito dell’Università di Waterloo e membro del consiglio di amministrazione dell’Italian-Canadian Archives Project (ICAP), network nazionale sotto i cui auspici opera il suddetto studio poetico…