Welcome to the Canadian National Multilingual News Group (CNMNG). This is a project made possible through funding by Canadian Heritage. CNMNG aims to gather news researched and written by a corps of Canadian-based journalists/writers from the country’s multilingual community groups. The overall goal is to inform, analyze and critique the issues of the day in a professional manner and to provide that to publishers and editors active in the ethnocultural-multilingual press and media whose experience provides them with a perspective that is sensitive to news relevant to their own language group.
TORONTO – I governi federale e dell’Ontario investono quasi 1 miliardo di dollari in uno stabilimento di componenti per batterie per veicoli elettrici nell’Ontario orientale. Si tratta dell’impianto Umicore da 2.761 miliardi di dollari – come riferisce Global News – a Loyalist Township, che costruirà materiali catodici attivi e materiali catodici precursori…
TORONTO – The federal and Ontario governments are investing nearly $1 billion in an electric vehicle battery component plant in eastern Ontario. This is the $2.761 billion Umicore plant – according to Global News – in Loyalist Township, which will build active cathode materials and precursor cathode materials. (more…)
TORONTO – Toronto City Council has approved the increase of the vacancy tax from 1% to 3%. “Housing costs are so incredibly high, that’s why housing is the first topic before the City Council today” Mayor Olivia Chow told reporters before the City Council meeting Wednesday. “We are asking speculators who are leaving apartments empty, in the midst of a housing crisis, to pay a little more so we can raise millions and millions of dollars that we will use to purchase public buildings. These could be older buildings. but they’re affordable buildings. We want to protect these buildings so we can make them available to people to ensure that renters have affordable homes forever”. (more…)
TORONTO – Secondo un nuovo rapporto di Food Banks Canada, quasi sette milioni di canadesi stanno lottando per mettere il cibo in tavola. Non c’è alcun dubbio che la relazione sulla povertà abbia dipinto un quadro nazionale desolante, con la maggior parte delle province che hanno ricevuto un voto nella fascia D quando si tratta di affrontare l’indigenza…
TORONTO – Affitti sempre più cari in Canada. Secondo i dati di Statistics Canada, ad agosto i canadesi hanno pagato di più rispetto agli ultimi tre decenni. L’ultimo rapporto sull’indice dei prezzi al consumo (CPI) pubblicato ieri pone l’accento sull’aumento dell’affitto e dei mutui che stanno – in parte – alimentando il tasso di inflazione. Secondo StatCan, i prezzi degli alloggi sono aumentati del 6% su base annua ad agosto, dopo essere aumentati del 5,1% a luglio…
