TORONTO – A 2006 Documentary titled “The Bridge” shot 10,000 hours of footage capturing suicides off of the Golden Gate Bridge. After watching this, Italian Author and Director Paolo Genovese became fascinated with what the suicide survivors confessed in interviews. “All of them, in seven seconds, which is how long it takes [from the Golden Gate Bridge] to hit the water, had repented. These seven seconds fascinated me. How can a lifelong decision so stratified or unavoidable or incredible, be overturned in just seven seconds? I wondered about when you hit rock bottom and when there is nothing left to do, what things can lead you to change your mind?”. The questions raised by the controversial documentary became the seed for Genovese’s book “The First Day of My Life” and it’s eventual film adaptation in 2023.
TORONTO – “Librissimi”, the Toronto Italian Book Festival, is coming soon in collaboration with Villa Charities and Comites Toronto: the event, which reaches its sixth edition and will take place from 3 to 5 May at the Columbus Center (901 Lawrence Avenue West, Toronto), will launch this year the Librissimi Lifetime Achievement Award. →
TORONTO – The Honourable Justices of Divisional Court in Toronto are deliberating allegations of discrimination in York Catholic District Schools Board. If they are looking for real life guidance on how trustees and Directors can evade, if not completely avoid (“waive”) their Statutory and Procedural obligations, they need only watch the video of the Toronto Catholic District School Board meeting of April 23 (see it here).
TORONTO – First “house concert” for the Italian-Canadian musician Andrea Botticelli and the cellist of the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Keiran Campbell (in the pic above): the event is on Sunday 26 May at 2 pm, in Toronto.
TORONTO – Il divario tra ricchi e poveri cresce ancora: secondo uno studio di Td Bank, lo scorso anno il “gap” fra i redditi più alti e quelli più bassi è stato il più ampio dal 2015, poiché le famiglie benestanti hanno visto il loro patrimonio crescere molto più velocemente rispetto a quello dei canadesi a basso reddito…
