TORONTO – Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne insists: only greater competition will lower food prices. He reiterated it during an interview with “The West Block” on Global News, where he told host Mercedes Stephenson that competition remains the best way to keep the cost of food in check. →
TORONTO – Si è svolta oggi, domenica 28 aprile, la celebrazione per gli Italiani caduti sul lavoro, organizzata dal Consolato Generale d’Italia a Toronto e da Villa Charities insieme a The Italian Fallen Workers Memorial Committee: teatro dell’iniziativa, Villa Colombo, dove si sono ritrovati molti esponenti della comunità italiana per onorare la memoria delle migliaia di lavoratori italiani che immigrarono in Canada alla ricerca di una vita migliore ma persero la vita lavorando per la costruzione di questo Paese…
The following article by Senator Loffreda focuses on his most recent visit to Washington to attend the Global Parliamentary Forum organized by the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and the IMF.
Every April, finance ministers, central bank governors, development experts, private sector executives, civil society representatives, parliamentarians and academics gather in Washington for the annual Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. On the margins of this annual meeting is the Global Parliamentary Forum, hosted by the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF, which serves as a neutral platform for parliamentarians from member countries to enhance both accountability and transparency within development cooperation.
TORONTO – Canada reconfirms itself as the “navel of the world” for the production of electric vehicles, either due to the presence of critical minerals for such production, or due to the presence of qualified personnel, or due to the large open spaces and the environmental vocation of the country: the fact is that in the last four years, car and battery manufacturers have announced investments of several billion dollars in the production of electric cars in Ontario and Quebec and, since today, a new, huge investment has been added. →
TORONTO – A 2006 Documentary titled “The Bridge” shot 10,000 hours of footage capturing suicides off of the Golden Gate Bridge. After watching this, Italian Author and Director Paolo Genovese became fascinated with what the suicide survivors confessed in interviews. “All of them, in seven seconds, which is how long it takes [from the Golden Gate Bridge] to hit the water, had repented. These seven seconds fascinated me. How can a lifelong decision so stratified or unavoidable or incredible, be overturned in just seven seconds? I wondered about when you hit rock bottom and when there is nothing left to do, what things can lead you to change your mind?”. The questions raised by the controversial documentary became the seed for Genovese’s book “The First Day of My Life” and it’s eventual film adaptation in 2023.
