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 – After the brief stalemate of recent months, vaccines now continue to flow continuously. This week Canada will receive about 5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine. Five million that will bring the total number of doses received to 68 million, enough to administer two doses to all 33.2 million Canadians aged 12 years and over. Children under the age of 12 will have to wait for the completion of tests in this age group before they can be immunized. →
Canada is donating 17.7 million doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to help immunize people in low- and middle-income countries. This was announced by the Minister for International Development Karina Gould and the Minister of Public Services and Procurement Anita Anand: the doses, they said, are part of the federal government’s advance purchase agreement with the company and will be distributed through COVAX. →
Toronto’s tourism industry will get a boost of $16.3 million from the provincial government. Ontario’s Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, Lisa MacLeod, made the announcement today in the heart of the city. The funds are designed to aid in the sector’s pandemic recovery efforts. →
By the end of this week, Canada should have enough vaccines to inoculate with both doses three-quarters of all Canadians over the age of 12. Brigadier General Krista Brodie, a military commander who manages national vaccine delivery logistics for the Public Health Agency of Canada, said that Pfizer-BioNTech will send more than 2.4 million doses and Modern about 1.4 million. →
Der Juni in Kanada und auf der ganzen Welt ist der Monat des “Pride” – der Stolz der LGBTQ-Community. Der Beginn der gegenwärtigen Freiheit und des Bewusstseins für die Geschichte der LGBTQ-Gemeinschaft in Kanada begann am 14. Mai 1969 mit der Entkriminalisierung der Homosexualität. Vorher war Homosexualität ein Verbrechen. →
