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.
In another round of modified lockdowns and restrictions, the Ontario government introduces a new $10,000 grant for small businesses impacted by Omicron. The news provides little comfort to small business affected by this latest round of closures – the fourth time in the last two years.
The fast-moving omicron variant is fueling a surge of new infections. Not exactly the ‘positive’ start many were hoping for at the beginning of a new year. In just one week, the 7-day rolling average of new infections in Ontario jumped from 8,318 new cases up to 14,435 (January 4). →
Black Friday sales aside, now Cyber Monday deals entice customers to spend as the holidays draw near. However, small businesses are still reeling from the impacts of Covid-19 and the ongoing labour shortages combined with supply chain disruptions present further challenges in trying to build back lost revenue over the past 19 months.
According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), about 61% of small businesses have yet to meet their pre-pandemic revenues. Another 22% say they will not make it passed another six months at the current level of revenue loss. Time may be running out.
Mitt Romney, multimilionario, candidato presidenziale repubblicano nel 2012 e attuale senatore dell’Utah, non è stato entusiasta della proposta democratica di aumentare le tasse ai miliardari. Secondo Romney, tassare il patrimonio degli ultraricchi li costringerebbe ad allontanarsi dagli investimenti in borsa concentrando i loro soldi in “fattorie o quadri” che non creano posti di lavoro…
“Coca-Cola” e “America” sono praticamente sinonimi – e il nuovo millennio non è stato generoso né con una né con l’altra. Le vendite dell’estesissima linea di bibite del popolare marchio si sono appiattite a partire dall’inizio degli anni Duemila…
