The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, officially apologized to the Italian-Canadians interned during the Second World War as considered “enemy aliens”: a designation that caused many to lose their jobs, depriving their families of a sustainable income , making their homes prone to the projects of rapacious city officials eager to expropriate them for non-payment of property taxes. →
article by Priscilla Pajdo, translation and video by Luis Aparicio
Uma força de trabalho forte no Canadá é crucial para uma recuperação económica próspera. As profissões especializadas desempenham um papel vital nessa recuperação. O governo do Canadá está a investir 890 mil dólares no College of Carpenters and Allied Trades (CCAT, em Woodbridge), para ajudar a formar, apoiar e manter uma mão de obra especializada e qualificada. →
With the largest vaccination campaign underway, the province has administered more than 8.3 million doses into the arms of Ontarians. On May 26, numbers released by the Ministry of Health show health officials administered 143,748 vaccine doses on Wednesday, up from 135,308 doses the day prior. →
article by Francesco Veronesi, translation and video by Lisa Picerno
Continúa la presión sobre el gobierno provincial acerca de las vacunas. Mientras que, por un lado, la campaña de inmunización masiva en Ontario avanza sin demasiados contratiempos, al menos en las últimas semanas, por otro lado se multiplican las solicitudes al ejecutivo encabezado por Doug Ford para una estrategia clara sobre la administración de la segunda dosis de la vacuna. →
Today, Prime Minister Trudeau will rise in the House of Commons, today, May 27 and offer apologies to a class of Canadians for what their Canadian government of the day did to them, 80 years ago. Briefly, it declared them “enemy aliens”.
That designation caused many to lose their jobs, depriving their families of sustainable income, making their homes prone to the designs of rapacious municipal officials eager to expropriate for non-payment of property taxes. It subjected all of them to placement under police surveillance, exposed them all to vexatious and malicious ridicule and lead more than 700 individuals being interned in concentration camps without due process.
Their “crime”? They we were of Italian ethnicity. Overnight, the designation “converted” them from being valuable members of the Canadian federation to being labeled Fascists, Nazis, Imperialist…
WATCH THE LIVE DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, CLICK HERE AND PRESS PLAY: https://www.cpac.ca/en/direct/cpac1/
