Month: March 2024

CORRIERE CANADESE / La protesta all’AGO è stata un’intimidazione alimentata dall’inazione della polizia

Pubblichiamo un articolo di Flavio Volpe uscito in Inglese nell’edizione di giovedì del Toronto Star.

TORONTO – Diciotto anni prima che mio nonno Luciano emigrasse dall’Italia del dopoguerra e si stabilisse a Kensington Market, italiani ed ebrei di Toronto si unirono per combattere il razzismo e il fanatismo nella famosa rivolta di Christie Pits del 1933. Da tempo una leggenda delle relazioni razziali di Toronto, quell’aneddoto era ricorrente nelle menti di molti dei partecipanti al naufragato ricevimento di amicizia tra Italia e Canada presso l’Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) sabato sera… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>

The AGO protest was intimidation fuelled by police inaction

We publish an article by Flavio Volpe, from last Thursday’s edition of the Toronto Star.

TORONTO – Eighteen years before my grandfather Luciano emigrated from postwar Italy and settled in Kensington Market, Italians and Jews in Toronto stood together to fight racism and bigotry in the famous Christie Pits riot of 1933. Long a legend of Toronto race relations, that anecdote was on the minds of many of the attendees of the derailed Italy-Canada friendship reception at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) on Saturday night. 

Housing targets: here are the most virtuous Ontario municipalities

TORONTO – In recent weeks, the Premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, has been engaged in a “tour” that has seen him distribute millionaire checks to the various cities that have achieved the housing objectives set at the provincial level. The latest one to acquire funding was the City of Milton, which received more than $8 million for exceeding expectations by building 1,952 new buildings.