Welcome to the Canadian National Multilingual News Group (CNMNG). This is a project made possible through funding by Canadian Heritage. CNMNG aims to gather news researched and written by a corps of Canadian-based journalists/writers from the country’s multilingual community groups. The overall goal is to inform, analyze and critique the issues of the day in a professional manner and to provide that to publishers and editors active in the ethnocultural-multilingual press and media whose experience provides them with a perspective that is sensitive to news relevant to their own language group.
Senator Loffreda writes about his recent trip to Alberta with a group of Senators.
Alberta is home to nearly 5 million Canadians. With a booming high-tech sector and a reputable global agri-food industry, it’s the heart of Canada’s oil industry. It’s also the place that gave Canadians hope this year that Lord Stanley would return to Canada after a 31-year drought.
TORONTO – It’s been twenty-five years since Russell Crowe wooed audiences as a Roman General-turned-slave, and now Hollywood is returning with a sequel to the Oscar winning epic. Unfortunately none of Gladiator II was shot in Italy, due to logistics. This comes as no surprise to Tarak Ben Ammar, the head of Italy’s biggest Film Distributor (Eagle Pictures), who recently warned that Rome’s Cinecitta’s studio space is booked a year in advance.
TORONTO – Renato De Maria’s latest film, “Vanished into the Night”, has reached #1 on Netflix in 48 countries since July 15th, and #2 in the US and UK. As a loose remake of an Argentine/Spanish film titled “7th Floor”, it’s mostly unoriginal borrowing directly from foreign source material, and utilizing classic thriller tropes. It isn’t however, without considerable merit.
TORONTO – Apulian actor and filmmaker Michele Riondino debuts directorially with a story close to home – his home – Taranto. The titular building, “Palazzina LAF”, was a derelict office space, which the Taranto steel company [Llva] used to house its workplace exiles.
TORONTO – Italian U-18 Softball (Women’s baseball) team “invades” Toronto.
