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.
There are many indications that another vaccine against Covid-19 will be approved for mass production and global distribution later this year. The US company Novavax Inc has announced that Phase 3 trials are now underway for a new vaccine that is 90% effective against a range of different variants of the coronavirus. →
The second victim of the weekend, due to a drowning accident, is a 22-year-old man from Brampton who was pulled out of the water at Wasaga Beach last Saturday night.
If you are an early riser, you may be lucky enough to catch the first solar eclipse of 2021. Around sunrise on June 10, northern and eastern areas of North America, including Greenland, Europe and Asia will get the opportunity to experience the dramatic event. That is of course, providing mother nature cooperates and offers up a clear sky.
Many allergy sufferers may have noticed increased symptoms this year compared to last year. It turns out that it was caused by higher-than-normal pollen levels in the air in some parts of Canada.
A particularly strong pollen explosion occurred in southern Ontario and Quebec. There was a thin layer of yellow pollen that covered most of Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. We could see an unusually large amount of pollen on our cars, perhaps the largest since many years. →
It’s time for analysis. With the 2020-2021 school year coming to an end as Ontario students are taking online classes, teachers are examining a year characterized for uncertainties, problems, and guidelines caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. →
