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 – A Look at the picture below and ask yourself whether this school board meeting is a cause to laugh or to cry. Trustee Jennifer Wigston, elected by the cerebral elite among Catholic ratepayers in Woodbridge, Wards 3 and 4, manifests her interest in the “affairs concerning Catholic education” (sarcasm intended).
TORONTO – Based on data from 55,000 families collected by Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey (CIS) in 2022, the University of Toronto has developed a report – entitled “Household Food Insecurity in Canada” and published on November 19 – from which it emerges that from 2021 to 2022, the prevalence of household food insecurity in the ten provinces increased from 15.9% to 17.8%. In 2022, 2.7 million households, or 6.9 million people, including nearly 1.8 million children under the age of 18, lived in households that had experienced some level of food insecurity in the previous twelve months. (more…)
TORONTO – Something happened at the YCDSB “caucus election” Monday night that should have triggered a response from Church and State authorities. It still may. Unless the embarrassment that passed for an election is corrected asap, , the entire affair could end up in a legal imbroglio.
TORONTO – From my perspective, York Region reflects a contemporary Canada: solid values imbedded in the Constitution to guide new people in a new land as they move upward. The Corriere Canadese has a special interest in its affairs: 31% of its citizens profess adherence to Catholicism; 145,000 residents self-identify as of Italian origin (the vast majority of them send their children to Catholic schools); ethnic Italians – for better or for worse – are at the “cutting edge” of the leadership required to bring diverse peoples together “for the sake of the whole”. Sometimes they lead; sometimes they follow.
VICTORIA – NDP leader Jagmeet Singh continues his political “double game”, dividing himself between the role of “crutch” of Justin Trudeau’s government and “fierce opponent” (but only apparently) of the same executive. Yet another act of the comedy featuring Jagmeet Singh as the leading actor in the political theater was performed on Sunday in Victoria, British Columbia. (more…)
