Baseball: Alessandro Volpe, il sogno azzurro è vicino
TORONTO – L’impegno paga. Lo sa bene Alessandro Volpe (nella foto sopra), 17 anni compiuti un mese fa, battitore di baseball che da anni si allena ogni giorno, per ore, con abnegazione e spirito di sacrificio. “Every single day since 2015. #NoDaysOff”, come ha scritto lo stesso giovane italocanadese sul suo profilo Twitter poco più di un anno fa, postando il video di un allenamento, che è diventato virale, raggiungendo 18.500 visualizzazioni…
Baseball: Alessandro Volpe, the “Azzurri” dream is now closer
TORONTO – Commitment and hard work can pay off. Alessandro Volpe, a baseball player who celebrated his 17th birthday a month ago, who for years has been training every day, for hours, with self-denial and a spirit of sacrifice, is well aware of this. “Every single day since 2015. #NoDaysOff”, as the young Italian Canadian himself wrote on his Twitter profile just over a year ago. He had posted a video of a workout, which went viral, reaching 18,500 views.
Science Advisory Table, more than 3,000 hospitalizations for Covid possible in May
TORONTO – The sixth wave of Covid-19 may have peaked, but the impact of this weekend’s family gatherings at Easter could have an impact. This is what the director of the Ontario Technical Scientific Table Peter Juni says.
Tomorrow no Good Friday procession in College, the disappointed community wonders why
TORONTO – The reactions were not long in coming. The news published by the Corriere Canadese that also this year in College there will be no Good Friday procession, was not welcomed with pleasure by the Italian community and even, for example, by the Portuguese one. The comments to our online article were really numerous. An avalanche.
Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide
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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of April 14, 2022, at 4:20pm EST.
On Thursday, health officials in Italy logged 64,951 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 15.5 million. Of the cumulative total number of cases 91.1% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, authorities have reported 149 Covid-related deaths for a total of 161,336 fatalities attributable to Covid-19.
Covid-19, deaths and infections return to rise after a day of respite
TORONTO – Another 23 deaths in Ontario, today: the number of victims of Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic rises to 12,606. And after just one day of respite, hospitalizations are starting to rise again: today there were 1,392 patients in hospitals against 1,332 just 24 hours earlier. Attendance in intensive care units is only slight: 177 today, the previous day they were 182. Continue reading→
St. Catharines District, a political landscape poised for change
Created in 1967, St. Catharines is a provincial electoral district located in the Niagara Region along the southwestern edge of Lake Ontario. The riding encompasses part of the City of St. Catharines, the largest city in the region. Continue reading→
Daily update of Ontario’s Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign
With the largest vaccination campaign underway, the province has administered more than 32.3 million doses into the arms of Ontarians. According to data last updated on April 14, numbers released by the Ministry of Health show health officials administered 38,456 vaccine doses on Wednesday, up from 38,191 doses the day prior.
Le radici di Carina nel rosario della nonna
Prosegue sul Corriere Canadese la pubblicazione degli articoli dedicati all’immigrazione italiana in Canada, che prendono spunto dalla storia degli oggetti che gli emigrati hanno portato con sé nel viaggio dal Belpaese alla nuova terra. L’iniziativa rientra nel progetto “Narrarsi altrove, viaggio tra i cimeli e i luoghi dell’anima” della poetessa Anna Ciardullo Villapiana e della docente Stella Paola, con la collaborazione di Gabriel Niccoli, professore emerito dell’Università di Waterloo e membro del consiglio di amministrazione dell’Italian-Canadian Archives Project (ICAP), network nazionale sotto i cui auspici opera il suddetto studio poetico…
Pasqua, salta ancora la processione di College
TORONTO – Venerdì a College non ci saranno statue né stendardi e neanche preghiere e canti. Non ci sarà – per il terzo anno consecutivo – la rappresentazione della passione di Gesù Cristo. L’ultima processione – la 57esima – organizzata dalla Chiesa di San Francesco d’Assisi risale al 2019. Poi l’arrivo della pandemia di Covid-19 ha spazzato via con un colpo di spugna questa tradizione che precede la domenica di Pasqua. Ed anche quest’anno, ora che nonostante tutto la Via Crucis avrebbe potuto snodarsi per le vie di College, la decisione della chiesa è stata quella di rimandare all’anno prossimo questa rappresentazione tanto cara alla comunità italo canadese e non solo…