TORONTO – Mayor Olivia Chow’s latest budget has all the hallmarks of a pre-election document, both in substance and in style: after all, it’s her final budget ahead of the 2026 Toronto municipal election.
TORONTO – The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC)emerged from its post-election convention and mandatory Leadership Review with “impressive numbers” for the party and for this type of partisan meeting…
TORONTO – Identity, true identity and memory. Those are not my words; rather, they flowed from the lips of the leader of Italy’s diplomatic corps in Canada, Ambassador Alessandro Cattaneo, as he introduced the info documentary Liliana to a brave crowd in Toronto, on Tuesday, January 27. I say brave because of the unforgiving winter weather and the political climate of division and anti-Semitism that has, in recent years, manifested itself in this city in forms of hatred not seen in decades…
TORONTO – Film Distributors typically steer clear of comedies due to their high cultural specificity, and for the difficult process of adapting them to foreign audiences. This is why great Italian comedy and their comedians, for example, remain virtually unknown worldwide. Massimo Troisi was perhaps the prime example of a genius the world outside of Italy never got to know…
TORONTO – Last year, drivers in Toronto lost an average of more than four days of their lives stuck in city traffic, according to the latest TomTom Traffic Index, which ranks the Canadian metropolis as the second most congested city in the country, just behind Vancouver.
