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 – Firearm-related homicides have increased by 37% over the past 11 years, and guns have been the most commonly used weapon in such crimes. To detect this alarming situation, despite the fact that there are data gaps in information collection, is a report by Statistics Canada that examines the trends of armed crime in Canada between 2009 and 2020.
MONTREAL – Dans ma chronique du mois dernier, j’ai fait valoir que le Canada a un problème majeur de croissance de la productivité et qu’il doit sérieusement envisager d’adopter un plan pluriannuel détaillé pour s’attaquer au cœur de ce problème. Nous devons trouver des moyens d’encourager les entreprises à investir dans les nouvelles technologies, l’innovation et leurs employés. Il n’y a pas de solution miracle ou d’approche unique pour assurer notre croissance économique et relancer la piètre productivité du Canada, en particulier dans une économie post-Covid.
MONTREAL – Il mese scorso, ho sostenuto che il Canada ha un importante problema di crescita della produttività e che deve seriamente pensare di adottare un piano strutturale e pluriennale per risolvere alla radice questa criticità. Bisogna trovare il modo di incentivare le imprese ad investire nelle nuove tecnologie, nell’innovazione e nei loro dipendenti. Non esiste un approccio univoco che possa garantire la crescita economica e rilanciare la scarsa produttività del Canada, in particolare in un’economia post-Covid.
MONTREAL – In my column last month, I argued that Canada has a major productivity growth issue and seriously needs to consider adopting a comprehensive, multi-year plan to address this issue at its core. We need to find ways of encouraging businesses to invest in new technologies, innovation, and its people. There is no silver bullet or a one-size-fits-all approach to ensuring our economic growth and boosting Canada’s lackluster productivity record, particularly in a post-Covid economy.
TORONTO – Countdown to the election in Ontario. Once the possibility of early voting has ended – the deadline was set for 28 May – voters will have the opportunity to express their preference on Thursday 2 June, from 9 am to 9 pm. Frenetic, as was to be expected, the last weekend of the election campaign for the leaders of the main parties, who have traveled the length and breadth of the province to try to convince the undecided that they still represent a substantial slice of the Ontario electorate.
