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.
Senator Loffreda travelled to Washington last week to participate, as Chair of the Canadian chapter of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, in the 2024 Global Parliamentary Forum. He wrote about his experience in this column.
TORONTO – Stefano Croci and Silvia Siberini’s “challenging” and intriguing documentary The Pavilion on the Water recently screened at the ADFF (Architecture & Design Film Festival), hosted by TIFF Lightbox near Toronto’s Entertainment District. The documentary, about Venetian Architect Carlo Scarpa, was almost entirely attended by professors and students of architecture and [of course] bonafide working architects, confirmed by a show of hands in the preamble to the screening.
TORONTO – After China and India, Israel now also has difficulty relating with Canada, at least according to what emerges from the words of the Israeli ambassador to Canada: the war that began a year ago in the Middle East has put a strain on his country’s strong and enduring relationship with Canada. (more…)
TORONTO – Ontario’s deficit for the period 2024-25 has shrunk by $3.2 billion: provincial Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy announced today in the government’s autumn economic statement, entitled “Building Ontario For You ”.
TORONTO – A tax-free $200 rebate for all Ontario taxpayers: Prime Minister Doug Ford announced it today (see the video here), also anticipating that those with children will get more. “Because we know that children are more expensive, parents will receive an additional $200 for each child,” Ford said. That could mean a family of five with three children under the age of 18 could receive $1,000. (more…)
