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.
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…)
TORONTO – “Shadows” continue to grow over Doug Ford’s government: according to a journalistic investigation by Global News, in fact, several provincial ministers had large periods of inactivity on their official devices (i.e. “government” cell phones) when decisions were being made criticisms. (more…)
TORONTO – That little angel is no more. She was the picture of sheer innocence. Her struggle to survive captured the imagination and hearts of people in far away lands. Barely eight months old, she is no more, at least not in this world.
LONDON – Indi Gregory died in a cold English hospice where she had been transferred after the Queen’s Medical Center hospital in Nottingham stopped life support, as ruled by the English High Court against the advice of her parents. “She has an incurable disease and it is against her best interests to keep her alive”, British judges had ruled. (more…)
