Crisis leaves Venezuelans in Canada in limbo Venezuelan
exodus could become the biggest migration crisis of 2021
More than five million Venezuelans have left their country in recent years, and despite the fact that Canada heads the Lima Group that recognizes the Venezuelan problems and promotes reception and support for Venezuelans, it has not opened reunification or refugee programs for the displaced. Continue reading→
In Ontario 1,316 new infected and 16 deaths
[GTranslate]TORONTO – March 9, 2021: Canada yesterday stood at 895,809 positives for Covid-19, an increase of 3,208 more cases than in the previous 24 hours. The number of victims – nationwide – yesterday reached 22,332 total deaths, 37 more than on Tuesday. In Canada yesterday the number of recovered people from the coronavirus stood at 843,019. Ontario yesterday reached 312,428 overall positives, an increase of 1,316 new cases compared to Tuesday. The total number of victims in Ontario has meanwhile risen to 7,099, with 16 more deaths than the previous day. The number of recovered people in the province rose to 294,018, or 1.212 more than the previous 24 hours. There are 908 cases so far registered in Ontario of the English variant of Covid, 39 of the South African variant and 17 of the Brazilian variant. Continue reading→
Long Term Care, McGeer: “Proposals ignored because they are expensive”
[GTranslate]TORONTO – Hire thousands of personal support workers (PSW) and place infection control specialists in long-term care homes, – as has been done in Quebec – a system to allow hospitals to support the long-term care industry and to ensure seniors don’t have to share a room in three or four. These are some of the various proposals Ontario doctors have made to protect LTC residents but which the government has rejected “as too expensive.” Continue reading→
La ricetta del giorno: Sedanini con bietoline e pancetta
Ingredienti per 4 persone:
– 320 g di sedanini
– 650 g di bietoline
– 150 g di pancetta affumicata
– 1 limone
– 0,5 dl di brandy
– 2 spicchi d’aglio
– 3 cucchiai di olio EV
– 1 cucchiaino di paprica dolce
– 1 cucchiaino di paprica piccante
– 60 g di noci tritate
– 40 g di grana a scaglie
– sale e pepe
Preparazione: Taglia a julienne la scorza del limone e trita grossolanamente le bietoline. Continue reading→
Media ethics, distortion of the facts; amid death threats
[GTranslate]TORONTO – We journalists are a bad lot. We have the uncomfortable habit of anchoring ourselves to the facts; our daily work revolves around the continuous search for news that has a factual basis. This modus operandi is sometimes irksome; sometimes it is ignored, sometimes it is criticized, sometimes even distorted and used against us. Continue reading→
Update of the Covid-19 Landscape
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[GTranslate]Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of March 10, 2021, at 1:30pm (EST).
Globally, there have been over 117 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 according to Johns Hopkins University data. Since the start of the pandemic, over 94 million people have recovered and more than 2.6 million fatalities were attributable to the virus.
Egyptian embassy retrieves pharaonic artifact smuggled into Canada
[GTranslate]Egyptian ambassador to Canada, Ahmed Abu Zeid, on Tuesday received a bronze artifact of the god “Bastet” belonging to the ancient Egyptian civilization, in a ceremony attended by a limited number of officials due to the COVID-19 precautions, including senior officials of the Ministries of Heritage and Foreign Affairs, the Canadian Border Services Agency, and correspondents from the major news channels in Canada. Continue reading→
রাতানসি কি আইন ভাঙ্গতেই আইন প্রণেতা হয়েছেন?
মোহাম্মদ আলী বোখারী, সিএনএমএনজি নিউজ, টরন্টো
আমাদের প্রাত্যহিক জীবনের বিষয়াবলী তুলে ধরাই সমাজবিজ্ঞানের কাজ, তবে সেটা খবরের কাগজের সংবাদ কিংবা সাধারণ জ্ঞান বা গাল-গল্প নয়। সেখানে লৌকিকতাবর্জিত বা ভাঁড় গোষ্ঠীর নেতৃত্ব যেমন প্রতিভাত, তেমনি গোড়া রাজনীতিকের কাছে পৃথিবীটা দ্বৈত বিরোধীতা ছাড়া ভিন্ন কিছু নয়, যদিও উদারপন্থীদের কাছে ভিন্নতাটি দৃশ্যমান। আবার তাতে পরিবার ‘ক্ষুদে সমাজ’ হিসেবে বিবেচিত হলেও থাকে আপন রাজনীতি, অর্থনীতি, মূল্যবোধ ও সংঘাত প্রশমনের উপায়। সেজন্য সমাজবিজ্ঞান সামাজিক সম্পর্কের তত্ত্বকেই উদ্ভাবণ করে। সে কারণে কানাডায় আইন ভেঙ্গেছেন এমন একজন আইন প্রণেতার পরিণতি এ লেখার প্রতিপাদ্য। Continue reading→
Has Ratansi become a lawmaker to break the law
Muhammad Ali Bukhari, CNMNG News, Toronto
It is the work of sociology to cover the issues of our daily lives; on the other hand, the task of a newspaper is to gather news, general knowledge or gossip. Just as the leadership of an unorthodox or clownish group is unmasked in the process, so the world is nothing but a dialectic for unschooled politicians, although differences are visible to liberals. Continue reading→
The “Montreal all’italiana”
A tribute to the first immigrants
[GTranslate]MONTREAL – There are objects of everyday life, old photos and even faithful reconstructions of traditionally Italian environments such as the bar, the house and the church: there is so much Belpaese in the “Montréal à l’Italien” exhibition inaugurated today (March 10) at the Pointe-à-Callière museum in Montreal and promoted to turn the spotlight on the daily life of the first Italian immigrants in Montréal and on the ways in which the community evolved during the 1900s: thousands of Italians who have brought with it their traditions, their values and their customs, forming one of the oldest and largest cultural communities of immigrants in Montreal where today the Italian-Canadians are almost 300 thousand. Continue reading→
