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→

An italian millennial tree
among the candidates of Epa award

[GTranslate]What is the tree of the year? Not just the most beautiful, but the one with an important story? This will be decided by the people of the internet through an online vote open until 28 February on the site www.treeoftheyear.org as part of the competition organized by the Environmental Partnership Association (Epa), a grouping of six foundations from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia that support projects aimed at protecting the environment and activating local communities. Continue reading→

Censorship through “Wordsmithing” and turning grammar on its head

[GTranslate]The Federation of Law Societies in Canada’ Annual Report (2017) indicated 127,707 licensed lawyers in the country, 82% of them, 104,497, still classified as “active”.

When combined with approximately 37,000 paralegals (Census 2006), that represents a ratio of one “legal expert” for every 218 Canadians. Their services keep societies “civil” and the marketplace “free”.

But what happens when lawyers seek to silence, repress contrary opinion to favour their client and the Courts allow it to take place, direct – in layman’s terms, order – certain usage of vocabulary/pronouns in a Court environment? Continue reading→

Governo Draghi, i punti-chiave
del programma

ROMA – Governo Draghi: qual è il programma? Fra i punti-chiave del futuro esecutivo, al primo posto c’è ovviamente la  pandemia, contro la quale si prevede il potenziamento della campagna vaccinale per risollevare l’economia: far ripartire il lavoro e tutelare le persone che non lo avranno. Altro punto, la scuola, per la quale si prevede l’allungamento del calendario scolastico e il potenziamento del corpo docenti. Infine, apertura dei cantieri, infrastrutture e tre grandi riforme: pubblica amministrazione, giustizia civile e fisco. Le consultazioni in corso con i partiti vertono su questi temi. Si troverà una sintesi buona per tutti?

Update of the Covid-19 Landscape


[GTranslate]Globally, there have been over 112 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data.  Since the start of the pandemic, over 88 million people have recovered and more than 2.4 million fatalities were attributable to the virus.

Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of February 24, 2021, at 12:00pm (EST).

I ritratti “a 45 giri” di personaggi
che hanno fatto la storia

C’è la poetessa che risponde con tre poesie in stile “Haiku”, c’è il navigante che riempie pagine e pagine di ricordi, c’è il pugile che racconta il suo incontro più difficile: quello con una malattia. Quarantuno personaggi si raccontano nell’ultimo libro di Massimo Baraldi,  “Tre giorni nella vita – ritratti a 45 giri (al minuto)” (Multimedia Edizioni, 2019), nel modo più semplice possibile, cioè rispondendo all’invito dell’autore di  raccontargli tre giorni della loro vita: uno bello, uno brutto e uno così-così. Continue reading→

Ebola outbreaks in Congo and Guinea

[GTranslate]As the world fights against Covid, a new Ebola epidemic erupts in Africa. The alarm after the discovery of 7 cases of haemorrhagic fever. “We are facing an epidemic,” said the head of the Guinea Health Agency Sakoba Keita, after an emergency meeting in Conakry, the capital of the African country. There are already 3 dead: it hadn’t happened for 5 years. All the people who have been in contact are in solitary confinement. Continue reading→

In Italia altri 7.970 contagiati e 307 vittime

ROMA – Scende in Italia il numero dei contagi giornalieri da Covid-19, mentre rimane piuttosto alto il numero delle vittime. Nelle ultime 24 ore sono stati registrati 7.970 nuovi casi di contagio da coronavirus a fronte di 144.270 tamponi effettuati. Lo ha confermato il bollettino diffuso dal ministero della Salute, secondo il quale i morti sono stati ieri 307, per un totale di 91.580 decessi – su scala nazionale – dall’inizio della pandemia.