Category: Toronto

CORRIERE CANADESE / L’appello di uno chef italiano: “Aiutate la mia famiglia a ritrovare il sorriso”

TORONTO – Quando è arrivato a Toronto, quasi dieci anni fa, il suo sogno era quello di tanti italiani che vengono qui in Canada: dare un futuro migliore alla propria famiglia. Ma lui aveva una speranza in più: guarire da una grave patologia e quindi essere, poi, in grado di lavorare e dare il massimo per i propri cari in Italia. A volte, però, tutto sembrare remare contro: prima la pandemia, poi l’aggravamento delle sue condizioni fisiche e, infine, i problemi di salute di sua figlia hanno mandato in frantumi quel sogno… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

The appeal of an Italian chef: “Please, help my family smile again”

TORONTO – When he arrived in Toronto, almost ten years ago, his dream was the same of many Italians who come here to Canada: to give a better future to their family. But he had one more hope: to recover from a serious pathology and therefore be able to work and give his best for his loved ones in Italy. Sometimes, however, everything seems to work against us: first the pandemic, then the worsening of his physical condition and, now, his daughter’s health problems have shattered that dream.  (more…)

The AGO protest was intimidation fuelled by police inaction

We publish an article by Flavio Volpe, from last Thursday’s edition of the Toronto Star.

TORONTO – Eighteen years before my grandfather Luciano emigrated from postwar Italy and settled in Kensington Market, Italians and Jews in Toronto stood together to fight racism and bigotry in the famous Christie Pits riot of 1933. Long a legend of Toronto race relations, that anecdote was on the minds of many of the attendees of the derailed Italy-Canada friendship reception at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) on Saturday night. 

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