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Baseball, Alessandro Volpe invited by Italian U18 National Team for a second look

NETTUNO (Rome) – The Italian-Canadian slugger, Alessandro Volpe (in the pic), 17 years-old, has been invited by the Italian Under 18 Baseball National Team for a second look.

The “Azzurri” staff decided to invite him again to Italy as the Under 18 team prepares for the upcoming season, Alessandro will leave for Italy in the next few days, destination Nettuno (province of Rome), the birthplace of world football champion Bruno Conti. Things augur well.

Good luck, Alessandro!

In the video below, Alessandro (number 20) at bat in a game last weekend in Brampton 

Ontario, third dose of vaccine to all over 18s as early as Monday after three months from the second one

TORONTO – There is no more time to waste, at least more than that lost so far between hesitations and non-decisions. The provincial government announced today that the third dose of the vaccine will be open to all citizens aged 18 and over from Monday. Not only that: it will be possible to do it three months (and no longer six) from the second one. An acceleration first hoped for and then supported by the Ontario Science Table which just today returned to call for rapid measures to curb the surge in cases due, in all probability, to the Omicron variant, much more infectious than the Delta. But let’s go in order.  (more…)

Salaries, Serie A in second place after the Premier League

ROMA – “Serie A is in crisis, the Italian championship is destined to become a secondary tournament, less and less money is spinning”. How many times in recent years have we heard these considerations, a sad and bleak de profundis for Serie A, unable to stand up to comparison – it was said – with the petrodollars that inflate football in half of Europe and the investments of Russian oligarchs and American multinationals?  (more…)

Half of Ontario adults now vaccinated with second dose

TORONTO – Ontario’s mass immunization campaign against Covid-19 continues unabated. The provincial government today announced an important milestone reached in the last few hours: one in two adults in the province has already received the first and second dose of vaccine. During a press conference Christine Elliott, together with Sollicitor Genral Sylvia Jones, reiterated that the vaccination campaign is not only meeting the timetable foreseen by the executive, but that even the numbers are higher than those budgeted. (more…)