MAPLE – Under crisp January skies, the Catholic community of Maple witnessed a momentous milestone on Saturday, January 11, 2025. At 1 p.m., more than 150 attendees, including Bishop Boussonneau, prominent government dignitaries, and several benefactors, gathered at the Church site at Major Mackenzie Drive and Thomas Cook Avenue for the long-awaited Soil Turning Ceremony.
TORONTO – ” “I’m going to defund CBC. Yes, I am going to do it. Very quick” …Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who according to all polls will be Canada’s next prime minister, has returned to talk about the mega-public funding to the CBC, confirming, in an exclusive interview with the Toronto Sun a couple of weeks ago, that as soon as he is elected he will take away $1 billion a year from the television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.
TORONTO – While almost a third of the world’s population celebrated Christmas last week, a seemingly equal amount of cinephiles, historophiles and antiquarians were sent into a frenzy over Christopher Nolan’s new film announcement – The Odyssey. According to Universal’s statement on X, the British filmmaker’s next project “Is a mythic-action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology. The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026”.
TORONTO – The most “powerful” passport in the world is Singapore’s, the only one that allows entry into 195 countries (out of a total of 227) without any prior Visa; Italy, which until last year shared this record with Singapore and Japan, France, Germany and Spain, falls to third place “losing” two countries (from 194 last year to 192 this year). But things are worse for Canada which, with 188 “Visa-free” countries, remains seventh, a position where it has fallen for some years after being, in 2014 (one year before the beginning of the Trudeau-era), in second place. →
TORONTO – “Terrorism in Canada is on the rise” and “the terrorist threat in Canada has rarely been higher”, according to a report released today by the firm “Insight Threat Intelligence” (ITI) chaired by Jessica Davis, a former analyst at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Global Affairs Canada. →
