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 – The Ford government and CUPE, the union representing Ontario’s education workers, are on a collision course: today the government hastily approved (it’s happening while we are writing), the controversial decree law prohibiting strikes while tomorrow, not caring about the ban, the 55,000 union members are crossing their arms.
TORONTO – The government is pulling straight. After presenting on Monday the decree law that would cancel the threat of a strike, today it met at 5 am for the second reading of the “Keeping Students in Schools Act”. “We are at a critical time for our students. Right now, our students need to study continuously in the classroom,” Education Minister Stephen Lecce said during his hour-long opening statement.
TORONTO – Sarà un autunno caldo quello che si preannuncia nelle scuole dell’Ontario. Alla precettazione del governo Ford il CUPE risponde indicendo una giornata di sciopero generale venerdì…
TORONTO – It will be a warm autumn in Ontario schools. CUPE responds to the Ford government’s legislation by calling a day of general strike on Friday.
TORONTO – “Sappiamo che sono lì a parlare di quali saranno le loro prossime decisioni politiche, sappiamo anche che alla fin fine uno sciopero può essere evitato presentandosi al tavolo delle trattative con una proposta vera che rispetti i lavoratori e che rispetti le famiglie”. È quanto ha affermato la presidente dell’Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU) Laura Walton, presente alla protesta che si è tenuta sabato di fronte al Toronto Congress Centre dove era in corso un general meeting del Progressive Conservative dell’Ontario…
