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 was the nineteen-fifties, a post-war decade of emigration from Italy closely resembling a mass exodus -especially from the South. The reasons are varied but followed the usual pattern of “push-pull” factors such as population explosions, changing economic factors, restoration of peace inducements… the list goes on…
