TORONTO – Education Minister Paul Calandra continues to mystify public observers with his observations and actions in Education, six months after he placed four school boards under supervision. He had won public approval when, following investigations (quick “financial audits” exercised by accounting firms) into the conduct of said boards. The investigators alleged mismanagement, questionable decision-making that placed the Boards’ financial health at risk and growing deficits as triggers for Ministry intervention…
TORONTO – Il Ministro dell’Istruzione Paul Calandra continua a spiazzare gli osservatori pubblici con le sue osservazioni e azioni in materia di istruzione, sei mesi dopo aver posto quattro Provveditorati scolastici sotto supervisione. Aveva ottenuto l’approvazione pubblica quando, a seguito di indagini (rapide “verifiche finanziarie” effettuate da società di revisione contabile) sulla condotta di tali Provveditorati. Gli investigatori avevano denunciato cattiva gestione, decisioni discutibili che mettevano a rischio la salute finanziaria dei provveditorati e deficit crescenti come fattori scatenanti per l’intervento del Ministero…
GAZA – For the second consecutive Christmas, and the fourth time since the beginning of the conflict in Palestine, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa visited Gaza. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem has been among the small Catholic community of the Holy Family Parish throughout the pre-Christmas weekend, once again expressing the Church’s closeness to the Christians of the Strip (fewer than 1,000 out of over 2 million inhabitants), who have been hard-pressed by two years of war and forced to live in harsh conditions and with uncertain prospects despite the ongoing truce. →
TORONTO – There was a time when the people of Rome were subjected to love advice from a career poet named Ovid. His seduction manual “Art of Love” stirred up such a frenzy in its day, that the pious Emperor Augustus banished Ovid to the Black Sea. A harsh sentencing for the erudite poet, over some lurid love advice. How, I wonder, would Augustus have reacted to what today’s Italians are being subjected to on dating reality shows…
TORONTO – Taglio della burocrazia, fine delle duplicazioni amministrative, stop alle lungaggini che hanno bloccato lo sviluppo. Sono questi gli obiettivi dell’accordo annunciato ieri tra il governo provinciale dell’Ontario e quello federale sul futuro sfruttamento della ricca regione mineraria del Ring of Fire…
