TORONTO – Considering Clint Eastwood’s legacy starring in Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns, it wasn’t a surprise that his 2008 film Gran Torino landed with Italian audiences. Eastwood’s growly and reclusive Korean War Vet resonated – in particular – with filmgoers who grew up with parents or grandparents disaffected by the horrors of WWII. Now, Paolo Virzi’s Cinque Secondi is striking a similar chord with Italian audiences…
TORONTO – According to new data from Statistics Canada, more young people under the age of 18 were charged with homicide in Canada in 2024 than in the previous year—an increase that occurs despite the national homicide rate declining slightly.
TORONTO – Food bank use in Ontario has reached another record, with over one million people relying on emergency food services a full 8.7 million times in the past year. This new figure, another negative record, is highlighted in the latest report from “Feed Ontario” published Monday. →
TORONTO – Every now and then, a specific event/activity attracts public attention for the “good and noble” ideals it espouses and makes efforts to achieve, even as the Press and Media appear smitten with the concept of cause behind the “crisis and urgency” motivations for finger- pointing. Saturday’s fundraising event by the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Lieutenancy Canada-Toronto was just such an occasion…
OTTAWA — Canada is cutting, for the first time, its contribution to the Global Fund, a major program for fighting infectious diseases in the world’s poorest countries. And the head of the United Nations HIV/AIDS program, Winnie Byanyima (in the pic above, from her Twitter profile – @Winnie_Byanyima), is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to reverse his government’s planned cuts to foreign aid and global health funding.
