২১৫ আদিবাসী শিশুর দেহাবশেষ আবিস্কারে কানাডার পতাকা অধঃনমিত

টরন্টো, মে ৩০: ব্রিটিশ কলাম্বিয়া প্রদেশের ক্যামলুপসে একটি সাবেক আবাসিক স্কুলে ২১৫টি আদিবাসী ফার্স্ট নেশন্স শিশুর দেহাবশেষ আবিস্কারের ঘটনায় তাদের প্রতি সন্মান জানাতে কানাডার কেন্দ্রীয় সরকার দেশের জাতীয় পতাকা অধঃনমিতভাবে উড্ডয়নের ঘোষণা দিয়েছে।

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Status 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 May 30, 2021 at 4:20pm EST.

On Sunday, health officials in Ontario logged 1,033 new infections. This marks lowest single-day increase since March 6 when the province reported fewer than 1,000 cases. With more than 530,000 total confirmed cases since the onset of the pandemic, nearly 96% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, Covid-related deaths increased by 18 for a total of 8,744 fatalities.

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Ontario, here’s the turning point on the second dose

TORONTO – The provincial government is ready to change gears on the vaccination front. Starting in the next few days, the efforts of the Ontario health authorities will be aimed mainly at intensifying the vaccination campaign especially on the second dose, which until now is still a sore point, because the numbers on the recall injection are still too low compared to the other G20 countries. The provincial government has thus announced some changes in the roadmap announced previously, with the aim of reducing the time between the first and second dose of the Covid vaccine. Continue reading→

The remains of 215 children in a mass grave, Trudeau: “Shameful chapter in the history of Canada”

“A dark and shameful chapter of our country’s history”: this is how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau commented, on Twitter, the news of the discovery of the remains of 215 children in a mass grave near the Kamloops Indian Residential School (in the pic above, in 1970) in British Columbia: a institute opened in the late 1800s and closed in 1978, which was part of the network of schools founded by the government and mainly administered by Catholic churches (in the case of Kamloops, the management came under the control of the government in the second half of the 1960s), at the aim to “separate” the children of the indigenous people from their culture to “assimilate” them into the dominant culture. Continue reading→

I resti di 215 bambini in una fossa comune, Trudeau: “Capitolo vergognoso della storia del Canada”

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“Un capitolo nero e vergognoso della storia del nostro Paese”: cosi il premier canadese Justin Trudeau ha commentato, su Twitter, la notizia del ritrovamento dei resti di 215 bambini in una fossa comune vicino alla Kamloops Indian Residential School, in British Columbia (nella foto sopra, una classe della Kamloops negli anni Cinquanta): un istituto aperto alla fine del 1800 e chiuso nel 1978, che faceva parte della rete di scuole fondate dal governo e prevalentemente amministrate dalle chiese cattoliche (nel caso della Kamloops, la gestione passò sotto il controllo del governo nella seconda metà degli anni Sessanta), allo scopo di “separare” i figli degli indigeni dalla loro cultura per “assimilarli” nella cultura dominante. Continue reading→