Record snowfall in Mississauga, city plows leave residents “walled in”

Mississauga residents are still recovering after digging out of the first major snowfall in 2022. During the weekly press conference, Mayor Bonnie Crombie confirmed that many parts of the city experienced an accumulation of 45 cm of snow, the most in a single day since 1944. While residents went straight to work digging out their driveways and walkways, many would have to wait days until city plows dug out their street. Continue reading→

বিশ্বের অতি দূষিত শহরের মাঝে বাংলাদেশের অবস্থান

সুইজারল্যান্ডের আইকিউএয়ার-এর তথ্যের ভিত্তিতে প্রণীত ২০২০ সালের বিশ্ব বায়ুদূষণ প্রতিবেদনে দক্ষিণ ও পূর্ব-এশিয়ার অঞ্চলগুলো সর্বাধিক দূষিত বলে প্রদর্শিত। তাতে বিশ্বের ৫০টি শহরের মাঝে বাংলাদেশ, চীন, ভারত ও পাকিস্তানেরই ৪৯টি শহর অন্তর্ভুক্ত, ঢাকা শহর সেখানে দ্বিতীয়; যদিও বৈশ্বিকভাবে জলবায়ুর তাপমাত্রা বৃদ্ধিতে বনে অগ্নিকান্ড ও ধূলিঝড় ও চাষাবাদ রীতি বহুলাংশে সংশ্লিষ্ট। 

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Bangladesh among most polluted countries in the world

Relying on Swiss IQAir’s information platform, the 2020 World Air Quality Report shows, South and East Asian locations emerge as the most polluted globally. Among them Bangladesh, China, India, and Pakistan share 49 of the 50 of the most polluted cities worldwide, Dhaka as second worst ranking, while wildfires and dust storms linked to increasing global temperatures as part of climate change as well as agricultural practices. 

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Ontario’s reopening plan: restaurants, gyms, cinemas at 50% capacity on January 31

TORONTO – “The worst is behind us”. Word of Doug Ford. With this ‘motto’, Ontario’s premier today announced the reopening plan: first step on January 31, when restaurants, gyms, cinemas and other indoor environments will be able to reopen with 50% capacity, as part of a broader plan to gradually lift most of the Covid-19 restrictions by mid-March.  Continue reading→

Ivan Morozov, un grande collezionista

PARIGI – Nel verde del Bois de Boulogne di Parigi, in una struttura museale all’avanguardia progettata dall’Arch.Frank O. Gehry, lo stesso del museo eccezionale Guggenheim di Bilbao in Spagna, sta avendo luogo la esposizione delle opere raccolte dal collezionista russo Ivan Morozov (1871-1921): apparteneva a potente e facoltosa famiglia di imprenditori tessili di Mosca e lo distingueva una accentuata predilezione per la pittura. Iniziò a raccogliere i dipinti dei contemporanei russi già affermati quali Chagall, Malevitch, Larionov, Lebedev… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Quanti ricordi sotto le suole dei vecchi scarponi

Prosegue sul Corriere Canadese la pubblicazione degli articoli dedicati all’immigrazione italiana in Canada, che prendono spunto dalla storia degli oggetti che gli emigrati hanno portato con sé nel viaggio dal Belpaese alla nuova terra. L’iniziativa rientra nel progetto “Narrarsi altrove, viaggio tra i cimeli e i luoghi dell’anima” della poetessa Anna Ciardullo Villapiana e docente Stella Paola con la collaborazione di Gabriel Niccoli, professore emerito dell’Università di Waterloo… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Verso il voto, Ford in netto vantaggio su Ndp e liberali

TORONTO – Conservatori in vantaggio, liberali in difficoltà, neodemocratici nettamente staccati. È questa l’istantanea degli attuali rapporti di forza politici in Ontario – a poco più di quattro mesi dall’appuntamento alle urne – scattata da un sondaggio effettuato da Abacus che mette in luce come i partiti di opposizione a Queen’s Park si trovino in una fase di evidente criticità rispetto al Progressive Conservative… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>>