TORONTO – Fans of the Italian Horror subgenre known as “Giallo Films” might view “A Classic Horror Story” as a pastiche of the 1960s murder mystery films. Giallo films were highly stylized and usually ultraviolent for their time – enjoying a heyday from the mid 60s to the late 70s. Filmmakers like Argento, Bava and Fulci who made films like “Suspiria”, “Blood and Black Lace” and “Zombie” arguably paved the way for the American Slasher films of the early eighties – and later the 90s neo-noir films of Tarantino and De Palma.
TORONTO – Crackdown on temporary immigration: the federal Liberal government led by Justin Trudeau announced today a reduction in the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers, starting from September 26, to the benefit of Canadian workers. How? →
TORONTO – With “Il Ritorno di Casanova”, Oscar winning Director Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo) loosely adapts Arthur Schnitzler‘s novella “Casanova’s Homecoming”. The film was shortlisted for the 96th Academy Awards and stars Toni Servillo as Leo Bernardi, an aging Director whose latest romantic tryst has him in knots – and his latest film in jeopardy.
TORONTO – In the end, almost a day after the start of the widely announced railway strike, the largest in the history of Canada, the federal government “woke up”: on Thursday evening, when the country was already effectively paralysed, the Federal Labor Minister, Steve MacKinnon, has announced he will use powers under the Labor Code to “ensure industrial peace” and to impose binding arbitration. Calmly, only on Saturday, the Federal Labor Board followed up on the minister’s announcement by establishing that freight trains will have to start running again on Monday morning (tomorrow, after four days of stoppage), thus ordering thousands of railway employees to return to work and to interrupt the strike called following the bitter contractual dispute between the union (Teamsters) and the country’s two main railways: Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC). →
TORONTO – The railway strike called for tomorrow, Thursday, could also have an impact on GO Train passengers. As well known, CN Rail could go on strike starting tomorrow (at the time of writing, it has not yet been revoked): the union representing the workers of Canadian Pacific Kansas City has in fact notified the strike notice of 72 in recent days hours to the railways and, barring last-minute cancellations, the strike of over 9,000 workers on the two main Canadian railways will begin immediately after midnight. →
