Long Term Care, McGeer: “Proposals ignored because they are expensive”

[GTranslate]TORONTO – Hire thousands of personal support workers (PSW) and place infection control specialists in long-term care homes, – as has been done in Quebec – a system to allow hospitals to support the long-term care industry and to ensure seniors don’t have to share a room in three or four. These are some of the various proposals Ontario doctors have made to protect LTC residents but which the government has rejected “as too expensive.” Continue reading→

La ricetta del giorno: Sedanini con bietoline e pancetta

Ingredienti per 4 persone:
– 320 g di sedanini
– 650 g di bietoline
– 150 g di pancetta affumicata
– 1 limone
– 0,5 dl di brandy
– 2 spicchi d’aglio
– 3 cucchiai di olio EV
– 1 cucchiaino di paprica dolce
– 1 cucchiaino di paprica piccante
– 60 g di noci tritate
– 40 g di grana a scaglie
– sale e pepe

Preparazione: Taglia a julienne la scorza del limone e trita grossolanamente le bietoline. Continue reading→

Update of the Covid-19 Landscape


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[GTranslate]Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of March 10, 2021, at 1:30pm (EST).

Globally, there have been over 117 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data.  Since the start of the pandemic, over 94 million people have recovered and more than 2.6 million fatalities were attributable to the virus.

Egyptian embassy retrieves pharaonic artifact smuggled into Canada

[GTranslate]Egyptian ambassador to Canada, Ahmed Abu Zeid, on Tuesday received a bronze artifact of the god “Bastet” belonging to the ancient Egyptian civilization, in a ceremony attended by a limited number of officials due to the COVID-19 precautions, including senior officials of the Ministries of Heritage and Foreign Affairs, the Canadian Border Services Agency, and correspondents from the major news channels in Canada. Continue reading→

রাতানসি কি আইন ভাঙ্গতেই আইন প্রণেতা হয়েছেন?

মোহাম্মদ আলী বোখারী, সিএনএমএনজি নিউজ, টরন্টো

আমাদের প্রাত্যহিক জীবনের বিষয়াবলী তুলে ধরাই সমাজবিজ্ঞানের কাজ, তবে সেটা খবরের কাগজের সংবাদ কিংবা সাধারণ জ্ঞান বা গাল-গল্প নয়। সেখানে লৌকিকতাবর্জিত বা ভাঁড় গোষ্ঠীর নেতৃত্ব যেমন প্রতিভাত, তেমনি গোড়া রাজনীতিকের কাছে পৃথিবীটা দ্বৈত বিরোধীতা ছাড়া ভিন্ন কিছু নয়, যদিও উদারপন্থীদের কাছে ভিন্নতাটি দৃশ্যমান। আবার তাতে পরিবার ‘ক্ষুদে সমাজ’ হিসেবে বিবেচিত হলেও থাকে আপন রাজনীতি, অর্থনীতি, মূল্যবোধ ও সংঘাত প্রশমনের উপায়। সেজন্য সমাজবিজ্ঞান সামাজিক সম্পর্কের তত্ত্বকেই উদ্ভাবণ করে। সে কারণে কানাডায় আইন ভেঙ্গেছেন এমন একজন আইন প্রণেতার পরিণতি এ লেখার প্রতিপাদ্য। Continue reading→

Has Ratansi become a lawmaker to break the law

Muhammad Ali Bukhari, CNMNG News, Toronto

It is the work of sociology to cover the issues of our daily lives; on the other hand, the task of a newspaper is to gather news, general knowledge or gossip. Just as the leadership of an unorthodox or clownish group is unmasked in the process, so the world is nothing but a dialectic for unschooled politicians, although differences are visible to liberals. Continue reading→

The “Montreal all’italiana”
A tribute to the first immigrants

[GTranslate]MONTREAL – There are objects of everyday life, old photos and even faithful reconstructions of traditionally Italian environments such as the bar, the house and the church: there is so much Belpaese in the “Montréal à l’Italien” exhibition inaugurated today (March 10) at the Pointe-à-Callière museum in Montreal and promoted to turn the spotlight on the daily life of the first Italian immigrants in Montréal and on the ways in which the community evolved during the 1900s: thousands of Italians who have brought with it their traditions, their values ​​and their customs, forming one of the oldest and largest cultural communities of immigrants in Montreal where today the Italian-Canadians are almost 300 thousand. Continue reading→

La “Montreal all’italiana” in mostra
Un omaggio ai primi immigrati

MONTREAL – Ci sono gli oggetti della vita di tutti i giorni, le vecchie fotografie e persino fedeli ricostruzioni di ambienti tradizionalmente italiani come il bar, la casa e la chiesa: c’è tanto Belpaese nella mostra “Montréal à l’Italien” inaugurata oggi (10 marzo) al museo Pointe-à-Callière di Montreal e promossa per accendere i riflettori sulla vita quotidiana dei primi immigrati italiani di Montréal e sui modi in cui la comunità si è evoluta nel corso del ‘900: migliaia di italiani che hanno portato con sé le loro tradizioni, i loro valori e le loro usanze, andando a formare una delle più antiche e grandi comunità culturali di immigrati a Montréal dove oggi gli italo-canadesi sono quasi 300mila. Continue reading→