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.
HAMILTON – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came face to face with some protesters Tuesday night in Hamilton, Ontario, when his massive security team escorted him across the street from the “Breda Bar” restaurant where he and members of his federal cabinet – meeting in “retreat” in the Ontario city – had gathered for dinner. (more…)
TORONTO – Fake news, testimonials and personal narratives used to suggest a distorted interpretation of reality and social networks used as a means of spreading false information: this and much more is discussed in the report drawn up by the Council of Canadian Academies, a non-profit organization that examines complex scientific topics of public interest. Including Covid-19, as in the case of “Fault Lines” (Expert Panel on the Socioeconomic Impacts of Science and Health Misinformation), a work supported by a gigantic bibliography (over sixty pages of references) from which it clearly emerges that misinformation on the coronavirus has done great damage to Canadian society, contributing to more than 2,800 deaths and an estimated $30 million in hospital visits and intensive care. Deaths that could have been avoided and money that could have been spent elsewhere. (more…)
TORONTO – L’emergenza è tra di noi e il sindaco di Toronto John Tory dichiara che è giunto il momento di agire, di affrontare la “crisi di salute mentale” che si sta allargando a macchia d’olio. E per farlo chiede un vertice nazionale sul benessere psichico. Intervistato da Cp24 Breakfast, ieri il primo cittadino ha tracciato un legame tra la salute mentale e alcuni degli inquietanti atti di violenza che sono accaduti in città… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>
TORONTO – Il prossimo 7 febbraio il primo ministro Justin Trudeau incontrerà i premier canadesi a Ottawa per concludere un accordo sul finanziamento dell’assistenza sanitaria: un annuncio, fatto ieri dallo stesso Trudeau, che arriva dopo mesi e mesi di pressioni da parte dei premier di tutte le province e territori canadesi, che si trovano in gravi difficoltà nella gestione delle strutture sanitarie pubbliche… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>
TORONTO – Tutto secondo copione. Come ampiamente previsto Bank of Canada ha annunciato ieri l’ottavo rialzo consecutivo dei tassi d’interesse, con un più 0,25 per cento che porta il costo del denaro al 4,50 per cento. Ma la Banca Centrale, allo stesso tempo, ha deciso di modificare profondamente la sua politica monetaria di controllo all’inflazione, confermando come nei prossimi mesi non dovrebbero esserci altri ritocchi verso l’alto del tasso di sconto… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>
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