বৈশ্বিক বহুভাষিকতা ও বহুজাতিকতা প্রতিষ্ঠায় কানাডা কি এগিয়ে আসবে?
Should Canada take a lead to promote multilingualism and multiculturalism worldwide?

মোহাম্মদ আলী বোখারী, সিএনএমএনজি নিউজ, টরন্টো থেকে

১৯৯৯ সালের নভেম্বরে ইউনেস্কোর ৩০তম সাধারণ অধিবেশনে বাংলাদেশ ও সৌদি আরবের যৌথ প্রস্তাবে ১৮৮টি দেশের ঐক্যবদ্ধ সমর্থনে একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারিকে অন্তর্জাতিক মাতৃভাষা দিবস হিসেবে প্রতিপন্ন করা হয়। পরবর্তীতে ২০০০ সাল থেকে সেটি পালনের অন্যতম উদ্দেশ্য দাঁড়ায় বিশ্বের ৭ হাজারের কাছাকাছি ভাষার সুরক্ষা সাধন ও প্রসার ঘটানো। Continue reading→

Italy joins Canada
against arbitrary detentions

[GTranslate]ROME – “Congratulations to Canada for the launch of the Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention in State-to-State relations. Ready to engage constructively with international partners to put an end to this heinous practice “: this is the text of the tweet published a few days ago in the official profile of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with which the Farnesina manifests Italy’s support for the Canadian declaration against arbitrary detention in relations between states. Continue reading→

Covid originated in animals,
WHO dismisses lab leak theory

[GTranslate]WUHAN – The coronavirus pandemic is “most likely” of animal origin. Research conducted so far suggests this, but the host animal remains to be identified. This was said at a press conference by Liang Wannian (in the pic), head of the team of Chinese experts who worked with the World Health Organization delegation on a mission to China to try to reconstruct the origins of the pandemic. “Bats and pangolins are potential candidates for the transmission of the virus”, he said.  The WHO investigation team dismissed the idea that a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology started the pandemic.

 

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 1, 2021, at 2:30pm (EST).

Globally, there have been over 114 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data.  Since the start of the pandemic, over 90 million people have recovered and more than 2.5 million fatalities were attributable to the virus.

Governo Draghi,
ecco chi sono i ministri

ROMA – Otto tecnici e quindici politici con alcune riconferme: il Governo Draghi è pronto. Il premier incaricato è salito al Colle per sciogliere la riserva e sottoporre la lista dei ministri al presidente della Repubblica, Sergio Mattarella, che l’ha approvata, firmando i decreti di nomina: il giuramento è previsto per sabato 13 febbraio alle ore 12.. Quindici, dunque, i ministri politici: 4 del M5S, 3 di FI, 3 del Pd, 3 della Lega, 1 per Italia Viva e 1 per Leu. Ma vediamo chi fa parte della squadra di governo.
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Draghi, the program
of the future government

[GTranslate]ROME – Draghi Government: which program? Among the key-points of the future executive, in the first place there is obviously the pandemic, against which the vaccination campaign is expected to revive the economy: restarting work and protecting the people who will not have it. Another point, the school, for which it is foreseen the extension of the school calendar and the strengthening of the teaching staff. Finally, the opening of construction sites, infrastructures and three major reforms: public administration, civil justice and taxation. The ongoing consultations with the parties focus on these issues. Will there be a good summary for everyone?

 

Laurentian University, hands off from the Italian Studies

[GTranslate]TORONTO – Teachers and students from Laurentian University’s Italian Studies program are on the ropes, since the university declared a state of insolvency on February 10th, citing more than 300 million in debt, they have certainly not slept soundly.

“I do not know exactly how this situation will affect us – said Diana Iuele Colilli, president of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures – we fear that, since it is small, the Italian Studies program may be cut.” Continue reading→

PHILIPPINES DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS….

When you Google “Bayan Ko”, you’ll see words like Nuestra Patria (Our Country), patriotic, unofficial national anthem and seditious.

No Filipino living in any part of this planet can claim to be unaffected by this song. Bayan Ko became the rallying song after the 1983 assassination of a Marcos opponent, Benigno Aquino, and gained traction during the People Power Revolt of 1986. It’s a song that expresses opposition to anything that curtails Filipino freedom, be it a foreign power governing the Philippines or the imposition of martial law, as was the case during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos when he declared this in 1972. Continue reading→