TORONTO – Three challenges in three days for the Mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow: the expenses that the City will have to face to host some matches of the football FIFA World Cup, the price of parking tickets, the announced plan to convert some city parking in homes. This will be discussed during the three-day city council meeting this week. →
TORONTO – “Rapito” is a film whose scandalous history befitting of a 19th century Vatican, had initially lured the interest of Steven Spielberg. The American Director reportedly dropped the project after failing to find a suitable child actor for the lead role. While screening the film at Cannes last year, Rapito’s Italian Director Marco Bellocchio hypothesized on the American Director’s decision: “My feeling, speculation of course, is that he [Spielberg] may have seen the complexity of this very Italian and dramatic case, for which the Italian language is not necessarily obligatory, but very precious”.
TORONTO – The federal government insists: the carbon tax cannot be touched. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had said it, and the Minister of Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, reiterated it, arguing that “the provincial premiers who ask us to eliminate the planned increase in the carbon tax are wrong.”. →
TORONTO – As if addressing the “genie of the lamp”, the Premier of Ontario expressed three wishes to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: and he did it through a letter where he outlines what the provincial government wants from the federal one. In the letter, sent Thursday, Doug Ford listed the three points: the Highway 413 project, the expansion of the Toronto-Milton “GO” train and the stop to the carbon tax. →
TORONTO – One of this year’s Oscar nominated Documentaries, To Kill A Tiger, was produced by Italian-Canadian Producer/Director/Writer Cornelia Principe. A rare feat considering that since 1929 only fifteen Canadians have been nominated in the category. The fine art to making a poignant documentary often hinges on how well the filmmakers execute their journalistic integrity with their ability to tell a story. In the case of To Kill A Tiger, filmmaker Nisha Pahuja documents a local story, but one that is echoed throughout the country. Her challenge is to report on a specific crime while telling a larger and more tragic story.
