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.
The Ontario government is encouraging families to take the opportunity to go out in nature to any of over 100 provincial parks this weekend. On the occasion of Father’s Day, which falls this Sunday, fishing will be possible free of charge and without the need of having a license. (more…)
TORONTO – Chaos in Ontario over lack of spots for the second Covid-19 dose. Today, starting at 8 a.m., all residents of the hotspots identified by the provincial government – Toronto, Peel, Halton, Porcupine, Waterloo, York and Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph – had the opportunity to access the portal to reserve the reservation of the covid vaccine recall injection. But the day was marked by delays, inconveniences, with the website overloaded with the number of requests that arrived. (more…)
This weekend marked a fresh start for the people of Ontario. Restaurant patio’s opened for in-person dining and non-essential retailers welcomed shoppers back for the first time in months, albeit under strict guidelines.
While the province is taking a measured approach at reopening to ensure a healthy and safe transition to the next stage, an injection of more than $12 million from both levels of government for infrastructure projects in Vaughan will help rebuild businesses, promote job creation and encourage growth and investment in the city.
Bookings were opened yesterday for the early administration of the second dose of COVID-19 vaccines for Ontario residents aged 80 and over. (more…)
article by Mariella Policheni
TORONTO – Reservations were opened yesterday for the early administration of the second dose of Covid vaccines for Ontario residents aged 80 and over.
Anticipating the times is possible as large quantities of vaccine doses are arriving in Canada: the country will receive 2.9 million doses this week thanks in large part to an increase in scheduled deliveries from Pfizer and BioNTech. (more…)
As you can see on the flightradar24.com map, the sky over Belarus is almost empty. Only single Russian and Belarusian passenger planes as well as Turkish and Chinese cargo planes pass through. Why is the matter of forcing an Irish airline Ryanair flight via Belarus to land on its territory important to Canada? Ireland is a neutral country. (more…)
The end of the school year is approaching in giant strides. In fact, just over a month is missing at the end of a year among the most complicated and tortuous between face-to-face lessons and remote teaching, anti-Covid-19 protocols to follow, infections between teachers and students and various difficulties. Meanwhile, everything is silent. (more…)
TORONTO – Progress in the immunization campaign against Covid-19. While vaccination continues non-stop in Ontario and other provinces, at the federal level the Ministry of Health has confirmed the exponential growth in vaccine supplies for this May and June. According to Health Canada data, more than 37 million doses are expected to arrive in Canada between May and June, a quantity that will allow individual provinces and territories to comply with the roadmap established in recent months. (more…)
The 2021 World Press Freedom Index, which compiles press freedom situation in 180 countries and territories annually by the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has shown that journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in over 130 countries. (more…)
The European Union (EU) officials have confirmed in developing a COVID-19 passport, known as Digital Green Certificate for its 27 countries and talking about that plan with the United States of America (USA), but Canada is taking a cautious approach based on science to keep Canadians safe. (more…)
The public education campaign took over the Yonge-Dundas square. Photo by: Luís Aparício
The City of Toronto’s “Let’s Get Toronto Vaccinated” COVID-19 immunization public education campaign has taken on a new digital dimension at the Yonge and Dundas intersection in the heart of downtown. (more…)
Canadian political parties of all stripes have long oscillated between the urge to tap into Canada’s immigrant communities, and an opposing instinct to turn inward and rebuff such influences. In a recent CBC report, April 13, 2021, Liberal MP David McGuinty, head of the National Security Intelligence Committee (NSICOP), said that state actors are looking to join political parties to ‘exert influence’. (more…)
TORONTO – Controversy rages in Ontario over government measures to stem the surge in cases. (more…)
The $ 180 million acquisition deal for rival Air Transat was cancelled by Air Canada on Friday. (more…)
According to information provided by the Minister of Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship of Canada, Marco E. L. Mendicino, the path to permanent residence is just opening up for over 90,000 essential workers as well as international students who are actively contributing to Canada’s economy. (more…)
Muhammad Ali Bukhari, CNMNG News
Toronto, March 26: Day before yesterday, Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvi presented Ontario’s 186 billion dollars’ budget for 2021. In that case, the economic fallout caused by the Corona pandemic would seem to have pushed Ontario’s budget deficit balancing to at least 2029. (more…)
TORONTO – Ontario is trying to shift gears in its Covid-19 vaccination campaign. (more…)
Toronto, 16 March – This morning, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) approved the AstraZeneca vaccine for those over the age of 65 by changing their earlier recommendation, the age group below the age of 65. (more…)
TORONTO – Global concern is growing around the AstraZeneca vaccine. Yesterday, following the reporting of some cases of thrombosis in newly vaccinated patients, the administration of the vaccine was suspended in Italy, Germany and France. (more…)
TORONTO – On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the rapid spread of Covid-19 a pandemic. A year later, with over 2.6 million deaths and 117 million cases worldwide, it is time to present a first, partial balance sheet, for a phenomenon that is still ongoing and represents a continuous threat, with the third wave also on the horizon in Canada and with the real risk represented by the variants of the virus. In Canada, according to data from Health Canada, a whole of 897,292 cases of Covid-19 have been recorded. The deaths ascertained by the health authorities attributed to the coronavirus in our country reached 22,286, most of them in Quebec – over 10,400 – and Ontario, over 7 thousand. (more…)
Muhammad Ali Bukhari, CNMNG News, Toronto
In a bid to accelerate Covid-19 vaccination among Toronto City’s 2.93 million residents, Mayor John Tory said today that pharmacies will be put in charge of an integrated immunization program. In his words, “This is a team effort and I believe the rollout plans we are discussing in detail today shows you just how big the team is for starters and the fact that it will, as you would expect, deploy its efforts right across the entire city.” (more…)
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