GENOA – Until the very end, he reminded the powerful of the world – remaining unheard – of the need to welcome and the importance of brotherhood among peoples: fundamental values for him, son of migrants before being a Catholic. →
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis returned to the house of the Father. Precisely on Easter Monday, when Christians celebrate the news of the Resurrection of Jesus and, with it, the hope of eternal life. And precisely after a series of public appearances – which had followed the long hospitalization of the Pope at the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome for bilateral pneumonia – they had given rise to hope. Jorge Bergoglio died at 7:35 this morning, at the age of 88, probably from a stroke.
TORONTO – Nearly a year ago, Paul Feig was on set filming his first film sequel in Italy while its original became the most watched movie on Netflix. The comedy crime thriller A Simple Favor (2018) starred Anna Kendrik and Blake Lively, as parents whose children attend the same school. Kendrik plays a single mother (Stephanie) with a parenting vlog who investigates Emily (played by Blake Lively), a PR Director for a Fashion Company. The simple favor: Emily asks Stephanie to watch her son for a night – but disappears and stages her own death.
TORONTO – Greens excluded from French and English tv-debates scheduled for tonight and tomorrow: the commission in charge of organizing the two debates between the leaders running in the federal election on April 28, has excluded the Green Party “for not meeting the participation requirements”. Here’s how it happened. →
MONTREAL – Another day of campaigning for the leaders in the race, another series of promises. Today the leaders of Canada’s major political parties spent the day in the Montreal area, where they will square off this week in two televised debates: tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8 p.m. in French and the day after tomorrow (Thursday) at 7 p.m. in English (both live on CTV, including YouTube). →
