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Italy: 1,600 kilometers by train every day to go to work: “The rent is too expensive and I don’t want to lose my job”

by Marzio Pelù January 18, 2023August 25, 2023

NAPLES – She travels 1,600 kilometers a day by train to go to work and back home. Apparently it’s less expensive given the rental prices. These days, it is no exaggeration to define the worker Giuseppina Giuliano, a 29-year-old school worker, stoic: every day the Naples-Milan route (and back) is made by train because the city of the Madonnina, where she works as a janitor at the art school ” Boccioni” in piazzale Arduino, is too expensive and therefore, on balance, it is more advantageous to take the train and stay and live with her parents in Naples. →

Deloitte: “Deeper recession, but job loss will be minimal”

by Marzio Pelù January 17, 2023August 25, 2023

TORONTO – The Canadian economy will face a “more pronounced than previously thought” recession, but it will still be “mild and short-lived” compared to previous slowdowns, according to the latest forecasts contained in a report released today by Deloitte, the company of advisory and financial services. →

Italy: boss Messina Denaro arrested, “but Mafia is not defeated”

by Marzio Pelù January 16, 2023September 26, 2024

PALERMO – Thirty years ago, the Carabinieri led by Captain Ultimo intercepted and captured Toto Riina, “the boss of bosses”. It was January 15, 1993. Today, exactly three decades and one day later, the soldiers of the Arma arrested Matteo Messina Denaro (in the pic above, by Arma dei Carabinieri), a fugitive since 1993, when an arrest warrant was issued against him. →

Goodbye to David Onley, champion of the disabled

by Marzio Pelù January 15, 2023August 25, 2023

TORONTO – He was the champion of the rights of disabled people and throughout his life he fought against ableism, that is, that particular racism towards people with disabilities. With him therefore goes a bulwark of those rights: former television journalist and twenty-eighth deputy premier of Ontario from 2007 to 2014, David C. Onley (in the pic above, from his Facebook page), died at the age of 72. →

The TCDSB dodges another bullet, maybe

by Hon. Joe Volpe January 15, 2023August 25, 2023

TORONTO – The high profile case of Trustee Del Grande v the Toronto Catholic District School Board has occupied the minds of Catholic parents for three years.

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New documentary by Lea Clermont-Dion and Guylaine Maroist denounces rampant misogyny: premieres from today at Toronto’s Hot Docs Cinema

by cnmng January 13, 2023August 25, 2023

TORONTO – Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age, the feature documentary that, in its French-language version, has already become a smash theatrical hit in Quebec, will have its English theatrical premiere in Toronto at the Hot Docs Cinema on Friday, January 13 at 7 PM, with additional showings Saturday, January 14 at 3PM, Sunday, January 15 at 5PM, and Tuesday, January 17 at 4PM. Premieres in other Canadian cities will follow.

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Minister and airlines testify at transportation committee: “Airports chaos? Due to extreme weather”

by Marzio Pelù January 12, 2023August 25, 2023

TORONTO – The extreme weather. This is the cause of the inconvenience suffered by thousands of passengers in Canadian airports during Christmas departures according to the airlines and according to the federal Minister of Transport, Omar Alghabra, protagonists of a “pass the buck” in front of the Transportation Commission of the House of Commons which called them to understand the reasons for the Christmas chaos. →

Ford: “Bill 124? Doesn’t exist”. But then he opens up to private healthcare

by Marzio Pelù January 11, 2023August 25, 2023

TORONTO – Private healthcare can “help” where public healthcare does not arrive: this is essentially the message launched by the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, during today’s press conference – the first of 2023 – in which, while opening to private healthcare, he also declared that the notorious Bill 124 – the legislation that capped wage increases for most public sector workers at 1% for three years – “doesn’t exist”. →

Biden’s first official visit announced. Canada sends more weapons to Ukraine

by Marzio Pelù January 10, 2023August 25, 2023

MEXICO CITY – More weapons to Ukraine and the visit of the US president to Canada: these are the main news that emerged from today’s meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden, as part of the summit of US leaders in Mexico City. →

Purchased 88 F35s: they will cost Canadians $89 billion

by Marzio Pelù January 9, 2023August 25, 2023

OTTAWA – After decades of postponements, delays and second thoughts, Canada has finalized the agreement to replace its aging fleet of CF-18 fighters with 88 Lockheed Martin F-35s that will begin arriving in the next few years: the purchase of aircraft will cost 19 billion dollars, but the bulk of the expenditure will be maintenance which should amount to around 70 billion. →

Curtain lifts on Project Arrow, “Canada’s Car,” in Las Vegas at CES 2023

by worldwide journalists January 8, 2023August 25, 2023

Here below is an article by Emma Jarratt, published on Electric Autonomy Canada, an independent news platform reporting on Canada’s transition to electric vehicles, autonomous transportation and new mobility services.

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Many challenges ahead for the “three amigos”

by Marzio Pelù January 8, 2023August 25, 2023

TORONTO – Illegal immigration, protectionism, industry and commerce… there are many topics on the plate at the meeting between the so-called “Three Amigos”: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Joe Biden and Canadian President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet during the next week for a trilateral summit in Mexico City and will discuss a series of hot topics, some burning ones such as the worsening of the migration crisis that Biden has to face on the border between the United States and Mexico and which, in some way, also involves Canada. →

“Santo subito”: the homage of the faithful to Pope Ratzinger

by Marzio Pelù January 5, 2023August 25, 2023

VATICAN CITY – They lined up from 5.30am, in the surreal atmosphere of St. Peter’s Square shrouded in thick fog and armored by the police, to attend the funeral of the Pope Emeritus. At 9.30am, the (Italian) time when Ratzinger’s funeral began, over 50,000 faithful were present to bid farewell to Joseph Ratzinger, together with delegations from various countries. →

Tens of thousands of faithful for a last farewell to Ratzinger: tomorrow the funeral presided by Pope Francis (with a precedent in 1802)

by Marzio Pelù January 4, 2023August 25, 2023

VATICAN CITY – Tomorrow is the day of last farewell to Benedetto XVI, Pope Emeritus Joseph Ratzinger, who passed away on December 31st: at 9.30am Italian time (3.30am in Ontario), the funeral will take place in St. Peter’s Square, presided over by Pope Francis who today, during the general audience, recalled Ratzinger as a “great teacher of catechesis” with “sharp and polite” thinking, then invoking his help to “rediscover in Christ the joy of believing and the hope of living”. Applause and choirs: ‘Benedetto santo subito’ (saint immediately), chanted some of the faithful present. →

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