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 – Freedom Day in England, with the elimination of almost all anti-Covid restrictions. But at what price? Britain becomes, at a time when the whole world still has to deal with the pandemic, an immense laboratory in which the government led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decided to carry out a dangerous social-health experiment. At first sight, this is a political breakthrough that is difficult to understand. (more…)
TORONTO – Solidarity between Universities: that of Toronto launches an appeal in favor of the Laurentian of Sudbury after the drastic cuts that hit it, wiping out dozens of courses, including Italian studies, with the consequent loss of jobs for teachers and inconvenience for students. (more…)
TORONTO – Solidarietà fra Università: quella di Toronto lancia un accorato appello a favore della Laurentian di Sudbury dopo i drastici tagli che l’hanno colpita spazzando via decine di corsi, compresi gli Italian Studies, con la conseguente perdita di posti di lavoro per gli insegnanti e disagi per gli studenti. (more…)
Article by Priscilla Pajdo — Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>
Social media has infiltrated almost every aspect of modern life. Worldwide, social media users number about 3.8 billion, roughly 50% of the global population.
It is a means by which people can stay in touch, interact and a way to create and/or exchange information and ideas in a virtual environment. It can be a beneficial tool, especially at a time when medical experts advise keeping physically distanced to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. (graph 1, see above)
WHAT IS YOUR TRUE COLOR? Nowadays with technology, we expose our true colours not only within our community but also to the entire world. Our mouth has been replaced with our fingers. What we type and post on social media does so much damage to our character. We all claim to be honest and well respected. Yet, how we behave most of the time is so contradictory to who we are. (more…)
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