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 – Behind James Cameron’s Avatar and Titanic, the five highest grossing films in Italy were all made by one man – Checco Zalone. In Italy, his films enjoy cult status. But while his coarse portrayals of the Italian southerner hit the mark for local audiences, his appeal abroad remains unlocked…
