NEW YORK – Calling it a “book” is a diminutio. Just browse it quickly to realize it. “Italian Snacking”, the latest work by Anna Francese Gass, is not a simple “cookbook”: it is a work of art. Of course, cooking is an art in itself: but this new volume by the famous Italian-American culinary influencer goes beyond the classic “recipe book” and is – rather – the catalog of a museum of precious Italian culinary “jewels”: snacks. →
BAGOTVILLE (Quebec) – The Frecce Tricolori have returned to sail the sky above Canada: the National Acrobatic Team (in Italian: Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale – PAN), which left last 10 June from the Rivolto air base (Udine, Italy), after a transfer that lasted over four days and which scheduled for several technical stops in the Netherlands, Scotland, Iceland and Greenland, landed in Bagotville, Quebec, where on 22 June it will take part in the celebrations for the hundredth anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force. →
TORONTO – A master of the crime thriller, filmmaker Stefano Sollima takes the viewer into the deep waters of conflicted fatherhood with “Adagio”. The film explores the multiverse of the father-son relationship, while uncovering the humanity within its tragically flawed characters. Fans of Sollima know him for his gritty crime dramas (film & TV), notably “Sicario”, “Suburra”, Romanzo Criminale and “Gomorrah”, but “Adagio” is perhaps the perfect amalgamation of these works, with a tinge more sentiment than his audience might expect.
OTTAWA – Canada must reach NATO’s minimum defense spending target and present a plan on how to achieve it to demonstrate to authoritarian regimes that Western allies are aligned: what the secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance, Jess Stoltenberg, said on Wednesday in Canada, it sounds a bit like a “diktat”. As is known, according to data released by NATO itself this week, Canada is expected to spend 1.37% of its gross domestic product on defense this year, well below the 2% target. “Canada’s position in NATO is strong, but we expect all allies to keep their promise to invest 2%” Stoltenberg said at the event hosted by the NATO Association in Ottawa. →
OTTAWA – It’s hard to believe that she didn’t do it on purpose: just on the eve of the visit to Canada by the Secretary General of NATO, the Federal Treasury Board President Anita Anand declared that it makes no sense to pour large sums of money into the Department of Defense National until the latter has the ability to spend what is given to him. Clear words, especially if said by a former Defense Minister like Anand, who intervened “with a straight leg” in the debate on Canada’s inability to meet the NATO parameter of spending 2% of the country’s gross domestic product in the field military. →
