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 is open war between the Government of Ontario and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). On Friday, the first day of the strike by the 55,000 union members employed in schools, thousands of people demonstrated outside Queen’s Park and the offices of Conservative Party provincial MPs. Schools in the province will still be closed tomorrow and, according to union leaders, will remain closed until a collective agreement is signed with the government.
TORONTO – Friendly journalists can give you a free ride and distort reality. That’s your hope, if you “suck up” to them and give them stories they can print, until the public wizens up to this “fake news”.
TORONTO – Nella nostra mente, le esercitazioni democratiche – le elezioni – sono una grande opportunità per liberare il sistema da ciò che è nocivo e per rinvigorirlo. C’è ancora molto spazio per le differenze e le ambizioni individuali; niente di sbagliato in questo. Alcuni consigli comunali e scolastici funzionano bene. Altri, non tanto…
TORONTO – In our mind, democratic exercises – elections – are a great opportunity to rid the system of the noxious as well as to bring in the re-invigorating. There is still plenty of room for individual differences and ambitions; nothing wrong with that. Some Municipal Councils and Boards function just fine. Others, not so much.
TORONTO – Diamogli credito per l’acume comunicativo in tempi di “crisi”. Di fronte all’interruzione delle trattative con operatori dell’istruzione e insegnanti, il ministro dell’Istruzione, Stephen Lecce, ha deciso di portare il suo messaggio direttamente a un pubblico più sensibile in caso di sciopero: genitori e nonni di scolari provenienti da comunità etniche orientate alla famiglia…
