Welcome to the Canadian National Multilingual News Group (CNMNG). This is a project made possible through funding by Canadian Heritage. CNMNG aims to gather news researched and written by a corps of Canadian-based journalists/writers from the country’s multilingual community groups. The overall goal is to inform, analyze and critique the issues of the day in a professional manner and to provide that to publishers and editors active in the ethnocultural-multilingual press and media whose experience provides them with a perspective that is sensitive to news relevant to their own language group.
TORONTO – It was one of my more pleasant assignments in my short career as a journalist with the Corriere Canadese: cover the reaction of the “real people” as the newly-minted Archbishop of Toronto introduces himself to the various communities that make up his diocese.
TORONTO – The handshake between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and American President Joe Biden undoubtedly remains the only real news of the “Apec” (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit held in San Francisco in recent days, because “tutto il resto” (“everything else”), as the Italian singer-songwriter Franco Califano sang, “è noia” (“it’s boredom”), at least on the Canadian front. It’s clear from the press release issued by the Canadian Prime Minister’s office, regarding the meetings that Justin Trudeau himself had during the forum. (more…)
TORONTO – It has been ten years since the Corriere Canadese rose from the ashes of bankruptcy. It is fair and realistic to say that few people expected its second life to last ten weeks. Yet, ten years later, here we are: a talented, diligent, committed team of writers, researchers, administrators… and readers. In hard copy and digital format, including presence on social media, we exceed five million readers annually…
SAN FRANCISCO – While relations between Justin Trudeau’s Canada and China have hit rock bottom, Joe Biden’s United States is trying to reconnect. And the four hours of talks between the American president and the Chinese president Xi Jinping seem to work: agreements on several fronts, openings on some “hot” topics, handshakes and even the sending of some Pandas to the USA, “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples”, as the Chinese leader defined them. (more…)
TORONTO – For the first time in a long time, economists expect the Bank of Canada to begin cutting interest rates in mid-2024 to avoid a deep recession. Last month, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem reiterated what he said when rate hikes began in March 2022, that the central bank would lower the lending rate once inflation had reached 2%. “We don’t need to wait until we get back to 2%,” Macklem then told the parliamentary finance committee on October 30. “We have to wait until we are clearly on the path to 2%”. (more…)
