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 risk of a new lockdown is increasingly real in Ontario. The threat posed by the new Omicron variant has prompted the provincial government to adopt some restrictions that they had already seen during the first three waves of the pandemic, but the Canadian scientific community believes that these measures are too bland to hope to contain the increase in infections.
TORONTO – Today, in Ontario stricter public health measures returned, with lower capacity limits in restaurants and social gatherings. Premier Doug Ford announced the new restrictions on Friday, saying the Omicron variant is so contagious that it threatens to “overwhelm the healthcare system.” →
TORONTO – Ontario hit a record 550 new cases of Covid-19 among public school students and staff within twenty-four hours, and more than a fifth of all public schools have at least one active case for the first time during this school year. →
TORONTO – Take stock of the health of Canadian finances and understand if the conditions exist to plan a return from the long-term deficit. These are the two central themes on the eve of the presentation of the new tax update by the federal government, also in light of the additional expenses approved to cope with the Covid-19 emergency and the growing uncertainty linked to the development of the new Omicron variant in Canada and the rest of the world. →
TORONTO – There is little to be cheerful about. The number of Ontario schools with at least one active case of Covid-19 has reached its highest point so far this year, infections over the weekend have soared to 345 and the new Omicron variant has appeared for the first time in an educational institution in the province. →
