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 – It was one of my more pleasant assignments in my short career as a journalist with the Corriere Canadese: cover the reaction of the “real people” as the newly-minted Archbishop of Toronto introduces himself to the various communities that make up his diocese.
TORONTO – The handshake between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and American President Joe Biden undoubtedly remains the only real news of the “Apec” (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit held in San Francisco in recent days, because “tutto il resto” (“everything else”), as the Italian singer-songwriter Franco Califano sang, “è noia” (“it’s boredom”), at least on the Canadian front. It’s clear from the press release issued by the Canadian Prime Minister’s office, regarding the meetings that Justin Trudeau himself had during the forum. (more…)
