Day: 30 May 2024

The Man without Gravity, a modern fairy tail

“The Man without Gravity” suspends Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation for 105 minutes, opting for a fabled reality, one in which a force does not attract the body towards the centre of the Earth. Marco Bonfanti’s film is not about Physics or the Laws that bind us to the physical reality of the natural world, but a contemplation of how these very Laws affect our state of mind. 

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Language, Being and Becoming

TORONTO – Leaders live, by nature, in a tenuous environment. If they whisper a syllable of thought an eavesdropper might hear, all bedlam may break loose. Several leaders of various “weight”, at their chagrin, are finding out the hard way. Ask Pope Francis. He is tasked with laying out a path for us to becoming better individuals and better societies. 

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The “Canadian dream” is over: the great escape has already begun

TORONTO – How things change: until a few years ago, everyone wanted to come to Canada, from every corner of the world. Today, many children and grandchildren of that “Canadian dream” flee. Tens of thousands of Canadians are emigrating to the United States: the number of people packing their bags and moving south has reached a level not seen in the past decade, according to the latest data from the American Community Survey (ACS) compiled by CBC who in an extensive report also gave voice to some of the Canadians disappointed by their country.   (more…)

CORRIERE CANADESE / Lo Speaker Fergus salvato dall’NDP: la differenza fra lui e Rota

OTTAWA – Imparziale o parziale che sia, Greg Fergus rimarrà Speaker della Camera dei Comuni: a deciderlo è stato l’NDP di Jagmeet Singh, che di fatto con i suoi voti ha “salvato” lo Speaker, bocciando la mozione presentata dai Conservatori per chiedere la rimozione di Fergus dal suo ruolo a causa del linguaggio partigiano apparso in una pubblicità per un evento (dei Liberali) nel suo distretto e per altri episodi precedenti… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>