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 Provincial elections has been “sleep-inducing”, except for the momentary turbulence created by Stephen Lecce’s association with Sigma Chi, the University fraternity club noted for its induction ceremonies requiring drunkenness, drug abuse, assault, sexual assault and rape, regardless of gender (activities that have led to the dissolution of some of its chapters).
TORONTO – Monday’s special (otherwise known as urgent) meeting of the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), convened to deliberate and make a determination on a Report by the Integrity Commissioner (IC), as required by law, did not turn out as planned.
In a report released on June 15, the Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion says MP Yasmin Ratansi (in the pic) has violated the Conflict of Interest Act while she was a member of the Liberal caucus by employing her foster sister in her constituency office for years. (more…)
Article by Francesco Veronesi – Corriere.ca
[GTranslate]TORONTO – We journalists are a bad lot. We have the uncomfortable habit of anchoring ourselves to the facts; our daily work revolves around the continuous search for news that has a factual basis. This modus operandi is sometimes irksome; sometimes it is ignored, sometimes it is criticized, sometimes even distorted and used against us. (more…)
