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 – While the root of Italy and France’s rivalry is nestled somewhere in their historic territorial disputes, Napoleonic Wars and World Wars, a much more amicable [culture] war continues the age-old feud. Cue the “festival fight for Oscar Supremacy” between Europe’s two most prestigious Film Events. France’s Cannes Film Festival boasts star power and prestige while Venice champions arthouse with a glamourous backdrop…
