TORONTO – He is isolated and goes on the attack: after everyone – political analysts, opposition figures and even allies like NDP leader Jagmeet Singh – advised him to open a commission of public inquiry into the (alleged) interference of the China on the Canadian federal elections, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau goes his own way and, in defending the liberal Chinese deputy who fell into the storm, accuses of racism those who support this hypothesis and spares no “picks” against the CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, “guilty” of having warned the government of the possibility of Chinese infiltration in Canadian politics. →
TORONTO – All years start off with a bang. The firecrackers, the confetti. We all look up at Times Square and wait for the ball to drop. And in 2020, indeed, the ball dropped on all of us. Barely a quarter into the year, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) dropped that word on us: “pandemic”. The world, as we knew it, had capsized. There go our big plans. And our even bigger dreams, now reduced to abstract concepts.
TORONTO – Taon 2020-2023, ang mundo ay parang naging tulad nang sasakyan na roler koster na bumalidtad. Lahat nang huspital, pahim-papawid, ekonomia, institusion at iba iba pa. Lumabas na walang bayan sa mundo nakahanda at alam kung papaano masugpo ang pandemia.
TORONTO – È la “stampella” del governo Trudeau, ma su questo evidentemente non può appoggiarlo: anche il leader dell’NDP, Jagmeet Singh, chiede l’apertura di un’inchiesta pubblica sulle (presunte) interferenze cinese sulle elezioni federali del 2019, unendosi così all’appello di diversi funzionari di alto profilo…