TORONTO – Allacciarsi le cinture di sicurezza. Quello in arrivo sarà un Budget lacrime e sangue per i canadesi e questo per via delle nefaste conseguenze create dalla guerra commerciale con gli Stati Uniti…
OTTAWA – A crackdown on bail is coming: today, the Liberal government led by Mark Carney tabled a bill that will make it more difficult to obtain bail for a variety of crimes, including vehicle theft, extortion, and home invasion. It would introduce for these offenses what is already in place for more serious crimes like murder: the reverse onus. That is, the burden of proof would shift from the prosecutor to the accused, meaning the accused would have to prove that bail is justified. →
TORONTO – Feel badly for Minister Calandra and for the governance model of local school boards. Minister Calandra, in June, sought and received authority to dissolve several school boards and to vest their regulatory and administrative authority in his [cabinet] person.
TORONTO – Dazi doganali e deficit alle stelle. Il governo federale, in vista del prossimo budget di novembre, deve fare i conti con una situazione fiscale estremamente traballante, aggravata dalla pressione che i dazi americani stanno esercitando sulla nostra economia, colpendo in particolare alcuni settori chiave del tessuto produttivo del Canada…
TORONTO – With the opulent lifestyles of notorious Roman emperors like Nero, Tiberius and Caligula well documented, the contemporary Italian psyche is properly guarded against the lure of depravity. But not totally freed from it. The Casati Stampa murders which occurred in the 1970s were a reminder that some in high society were keeping degeneracy alive and well in the 20th century. And now those murders are the inspiration for Andrea De Sica’s new film The Eyes of Others…
