TORONTO – It’s the festive summer season and people are off to “refresh and restart” their lives. The Ministry of Education is doing no less as it sets remake and reimagine its role in the evolving economic and political world of today. Its immediate “boss”, the Hon. Paul Calandra, seems to be methodical and determined “make things right” by tax-paying parents and their children.
TORONTO – Canadian author and Giller Finalist David Bezmozgis just wrapped on his third feature film in Italy. The author/filmmaker best known for his 2014 novel “The Betrayers”, directed the film adaptation in Puglia over three weeks in June. Scenes were shot in Bari, Bitetto, Monopoli, Mola di Bari and Modugno – but doubled for foreign cities. The Betrayers is about “A disgraced Israeli politician who comes face to face with the man who denounced him to the KGB and sent him to the Gulag”.
TORONTO – While the fire emergency continues in almost all of Canada, with almost 500 wildfires still active (including all of them, from those out of control to the “observed” ones), the first class action against one of the provincial governments could soon be launched, for “negligence” in protecting the population from fires and “damages”. →
TORONTO – Il Canada stretto nella morsa degli incendi: allarme nella provincia occidentale della British Columbia, in Alberta e nello Yukon. Le fiamme stanno imperversando, in alcuni casi, senza controllo, in varie parti del paese impegnando squadre di vigili del fuoco che cercano di arginare i roghi. Secondo il Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, ci sono circa 465 incendi boschivi attualmente attivi in tutto il paese…
TORONTO – L’obiettivo è arrivare a un accordo sui dazi doganali con gli Stati Uniti entro il 21 luglio. A ribadirlo è stato ancora una volta il ministro Francois-Philippe Champagne, dopo che il governo canadese ha deciso di eliminare all’ultimo momento la sovrattassa sulle compagnie Big Tech che tanto aveva fatto infuriare il presidente americano Donald Trump…
