TORONTO – A 40 billion dollars plan, plus the proposal to eliminate the minimum retail price of liquor: this is the “platform” of Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives, presented today by the outgoing premier of Ontario. →
TORONTO – The vote in Ontario is approaching and the atmosphere is “heating up”: the Progressive Conservatives remain the favourites, but approval for their leader, Doug Ford, continues to drop, and the same is happening for the Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie, while both Marit Stiles of the NDP and Mike Schreiner of the Greens are rising. →
TORONTO – Nearly two years ago, Terry Gilliam – an American born filmmaker who renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2006 to avoid double taxation – gave an interview at his Montone home in Umbria. While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about life in Italy and his next film, Gilliam mused about making a film in Italy, given his collaborations with Italians on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and The Man who Killed Don Quixote (2018).
TORONTO – Canadians have never been as demonstrative as their southern neighbours in displaying their patriotism. Until now.
TORONTO – Advance voting for the provincial elections in Ontario from today: polling stations will be open until Saturday 22 February, from 10am to 8pm. Voters can check where the nearest polling station is by entering their postal code or searching for their electoral district via the Elections Ontario website (clicking here) or, if they decide to vote on Election Day, (i.e. Thursday 27 February / the polls will be open from 9am to 9pm), they can inquire at their local elections office until 6pm on 26 February, the day before (to find out which documents are needed to vote, in advance or on the election day, click here). →
TORONTO – That did not take long! Before the fog was cleared from the camera lenses, critics began to heap scorn and criticism on Justin Trudeau’s announcement about a High-Speed Rail (HSR) route from Toronto to Quebec City (via Ottawa and Montreal, of course.
TORONTO – Paolo Genovese is turning heads with his latest film Madly – distributed by Rai Cinema International – which is currently being test screened at the European Film Market in Germany. Genovese’s writing/directing talents first garnered international acclaim via his record-breaking dramedy film Perfect Strangers (2016), in which guests at a dinner party agree to share all incoming texts and calls aloud. A caution to first time viewers: don’t watch it with your significant other unless you’re prepared to turn over your phone.
TORONTO – I feel sorry for Justin Trudeau, honestly. Since he placed the finishing touches on “his legacy” on November 30, 2024, with his metaphorical “pilgrimage to Canosa” – modern day, Mar-a-Lago – Mr. Trudeau has been bouncing from pillar to post to maintain some sort of relevance in the Canadian polity.
TORONTO – Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative Party continues to keep the Liberals at a double-digit distance just over a week before the Ontario elections (voting on February 27): this is what emerges from the latest poll conducted by Nanos Research for CTV, published today. →
TORONTO – A miracle. It is difficult to define in other words what happened on one of the five runways of Toronto Pearson International Airport at 2.30pm on Monday afternoon, when Delta Air Lines flight 4819 coming from Minneapolis, USA, operated by the subsidiary Endeavor Air, crashed on the ground. →
TORONTO – Marvel enlisted two of Italy’s most famous football captains, Francesco Totti and Alessandro Del Piero, to help herald the release of Captain America: Brave New World in Italy. Starring as the World War II Superhero is Anthony Mackie. The Louisiana-born actor made his debut in the Eminem Biopic 8 Mile (2002), and eventually earned global recognition playing Falcon in Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014). For Italians [and the rest of the world] the crossover promotion makes perfect sense since football icons enjoy as much fame globally as celebrities do in Hollywood.
TORONTO – Second snowstorm in a few days in Toronto: after last Thursday’s one (25 centimeters of snow), another one arrived between Saturday and Sunday and literally “blanketed” Toronto under a soft and white cover. About thirty centimeters of snow, which added to the 25 that had already fallen a few days earlier. →
TORONTO – Since my first election to Parliament Hill in Ottawa, it has received public investments for repair, refurbishing and restoration that are mind-boggling. From1988-1995, the project received $100 million (a lot of money at the time!), then most recently in 2018, a contract worth $5 billion was allocated to complete the project. It being a government contract, and Ottawa being the most unpredictable National capital, weather wise, in the world, that number is likely to be revised upward.
TORONTO – On February 1st, Canada braced for the imposition of 25% and 10% tariffs on consumer goods and gas and oil, respectively, by the US if conditions set by the occupant of the White House were not met. Said conditions are as follows: prevent the crossing south of the border of undocumented people and control the flow of fentanyl to the US. The occupant of the White House then gave Canada a reprieve after he gave Mexico one – a reprieve of one month.
