Day: 19 June 2025

Cinetourism Continues to fuel Matera

TORONTO – Since Carlo Lizzani’s 1949 documentary Nel Mezzogiorno Qualcosa è Cambiato (Something Has Changed in the South), nearly 60 major films have been shot in and around Matera’s 10,000-year-old cave dwellings – known as the Sassi. And now the sixth season of The Chosen, a very popular miniseries about the mission of Jesus of Nazareth, is being filmed in the aptly named “City of Stones”. 

Extreme Weather Events, 23% of the Canadian population affected

TORONTO – Nearly one in four Canadians has been directly affected by extreme weather events in the past twelve months, according to a new survey conducted online by Leger among 1,529 Canadians between June 13 and 15: according to the research, 23 per cent of Canadians interviewed said they had been personally affected by extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods, wildfires and tornadoes in the past 12 months.