TORONTO – With “Il Ritorno di Casanova”, Oscar winning Director Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo) loosely adapts Arthur Schnitzler‘s novella “Casanova’s Homecoming”. The film was shortlisted for the 96th Academy Awards and stars Toni Servillo as Leo Bernardi, an aging Director whose latest romantic tryst has him in knots – and his latest film in jeopardy.
TORONTO – In the end, almost a day after the start of the widely announced railway strike, the largest in the history of Canada, the federal government “woke up”: on Thursday evening, when the country was already effectively paralysed, the Federal Labor Minister, Steve MacKinnon, has announced he will use powers under the Labor Code to “ensure industrial peace” and to impose binding arbitration. Calmly, only on Saturday, the Federal Labor Board followed up on the minister’s announcement by establishing that freight trains will have to start running again on Monday morning (tomorrow, after four days of stoppage), thus ordering thousands of railway employees to return to work and to interrupt the strike called following the bitter contractual dispute between the union (Teamsters) and the country’s two main railways: Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). (more…)
