RIO DE JANEIRO – Ventidue pagine per ribadire, in 85 punti, l’impegno “a costruire un mondo giusto ed un pianeta sostenibile, dando priorità alla lotta contro le disuguaglianze in tutte le loro dimensioni, senza lasciare indietro nessuno”. Magari anche tassando i super-ricchi come si deve…
TORONTO – Torna a crescere il costo della vita. A certificarlo, come era stato ampiamente previsto, è stato il rapporto mensile di Statistics Canada, che ha messo in luce come l’inflazione sia salita al 2 per cento ad ottobre rispetto all’1.6 registrato nel mese precedente…
TORONTO – “Una baggianata”. Il premier dell’Ontario Doug Ford ha bollato in questo modo la stima di 48 milioni di dollari per la rimozione delle piste ciclabili da tre delle principali strade di Toronto…
TORONTO – Once in a lifetime, when super concerts like the Eras Tour of Taylor Swift is held in your backyard, the temptation becomes monumental to not check it out. If people from far away places travel to the city just for this, why not a Torontonian like me. It is very seldom a super show comes to Toronto and the municipal government tries to help and boost the show. After all, it generates millions of dollars for its coffers. Surprisingly, the show is sold out despite the current struggling economy.
RIO DE JANEIRO – Twenty-two pages to reiterate, in 85 points, the commitment “to building a just world and a sustainable planet, while leaving no one behind” …maybe even taxing the super-rich properly. The final declaration adopted by the leaders of the G20, which concluded today in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, arrived after a difficult mediation between the diplomacies of such different countries and often with such distant positions (ranging from the USA to Russia via Argentina, India and China, to name a few). A mediation carried out by the Brazilian presidency which made everyone agree at least on the global alliance against fame and poverty, the Task Force on global mobilization against climate change and the call to action on governance reform global. →