MONTREAL – A group of 23 bilingual municipalities has asked the Quebec Superior Court judge Silvana Conte to suspend several parts of the province’s 2022 language reform, arguing that the application of the law – which overbearingly imposes French – will cause them “serious and irreparable damage”. →
TORONTO – La sopravvivenza forzata del governo di minoranza guidato da Justin Trudeau, dopo l’abbandono dell’NDP che gli ha tolto il sostegno, potrebbe costare molto cara ai canadesi: per la precisione, 16 miliardi di dollari. A tanto ammontano infatti i costi della richiesta che il Bloc Quebecois ha fatto al primo ministro, in cambio del sostegno che gli permetterebbe di restare ancora in sella…
TORONTO – The forced survival of the minority government led by Justin Trudeau, after NDP took away its support, could cost Canadians a lot: to be precise, 16 billion dollars. In fact, this is the cost of the request that the Bloc Quebecois made to the Prime Minister, in exchange for the support that would allow him to remain in the saddle. →
TORONTO – La crescita della popolazione in Canada è rallentata leggermente nell’ultimo trimestre dell’anno, ed è la prima volta dal 2020, quando il numero di persone che entrarono nel Paese quasi si fermò, a causa della chiusura dei confini del Canada da parte del governo per la pandemia di Covid-19…
TORONTO – Canada’s population growth slowed slightly in the final quarter of the year, the first time since 2020, when the number of people entering the country nearly stopped, as Canada closed its borders due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The slowdown in growth, reported on Wednesday by Statistics Canada, is due to the recent crackdown on immigration by the federal government (which has progressively reduced the number of international students and the number of temporary foreign workers due to the “housing crisis”) and, at the same time, to the further decline in births. Two factors which, when combined, become “explosive” (in a negative sense), given that international migration almost entirely represents the increase in the Canadian population. →
