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 – Misfortunes never come by themselves, says a proverb. Edward Lake, whose three sons and father-in-law were killed in a terrible accident in Vaughan in 2015, took his own life. The case has filled the pages of the newspapers for months: driving the vehicle that hit the van of the children’s grandfather, there was Marco Muzzo, scion of a rich family, drunk. A pain, that of Edward Lake and his wife Jennifer Neville-Lake, that can only be imagined.
TORONTO – Not to put too fine a point on it, the exodus from City Councils in the GTA is surprising. In this last week alone, the mayors of Brampton and Hamilton have called it quits. Neither Patrick Brown nor Fred Eisenberger will seek re-election.
TORONTO – Talking about a new (nth) wave of Covid-19 is perhaps premature, but the signs are all there: in recent weeks we had witnessed a rising of hospitalizations but the small number of swabs performed (reserved only for “at risk” categories) “) had not allowed an exhaustive tracing of the infections. However, there is one fact from which there is no escape: the presence of the virus in wastewater. (more…)
Secondo recenti ricerche botaniche, le piante sono in grado di comunicare, imparare, ricordare il passato e avrebbero perfino i propri dialetti regionali. Godrebbero, in altre parole, di una vita intellettuale propria. È dunque forse immorale mangiarle?..
VENEZIA – Tra Umanesimo e Rinascimento fino al liminare – e liminale – della Maniera le virtù ed ambasce di semidei, condottieri, vergini, martiri e notabili si fecero pietra e poi anima grazie alla maestria di Donatello, dei Lombardo fino a Sansovino ed Alessandro Vittoria…
