Welcome to the Canadian National Multilingual News Group (CNMNG). This is a project made possible through funding by Canadian Heritage. CNMNG aims to gather news researched and written by a corps of Canadian-based journalists/writers from the country’s multilingual community groups. The overall goal is to inform, analyze and critique the issues of the day in a professional manner and to provide that to publishers and editors active in the ethnocultural-multilingual press and media whose experience provides them with a perspective that is sensitive to news relevant to their own language group.
TORONTO – If you are a parent in the York Catholic District School Board (50,000 + students, according to its website), you are about to be kicked to the curbside. You will have company: the Catholic Church will have been “booted” to the same sideline when it comes to institutions entrusted with the education of your children.
TORONTO – If the 102 candidates for the mayor’s chair in Toronto signifies anything, it may be that we are prepared to overlook the obvious until the dam bursts. Then everyone heads for the lifejackets.
TORONTO – Siamo alla follia. Dopo che il messaggio dedicato alla mamma della Kew Beach Junior Public School di Toronto ha scatenato proteste ed è stato rimosso, ora anche gli insegnanti della scuola La Chanterelle di Quebec City hanno deciso di abolire la tradizionale festa della mamma con una più generica “festa dei genitori” che sia più inclusiva e non fonte di discriminazione nei confronti delle famiglie dove non ci sono una mamma e un papà ma due mamme, o magari due papà…
TORONTO – I maggio, l’inizio del mese della salute mentale. La scorsa settimana – sembra ieri – il ministro dell’Istruzione ha tenuto una conferenza stampa sul “ritorno alle origini” e sulla “meritocrazia” per propagandare le “nuove priorità” del governo dell’Ontario. I “vecchi” criteri dell’istruzione avevano trascurato la responsabilità, le prestazioni e l’insegnamento come vocazione hanno lasciato una litania di fallimenti verificabili…
TORONTO – May I, the start of Mental health month. Last week – it seems like yesterday – the minister for Education held a “back to basics” and “meritocracy” press conference to tout the Ontario government’s “new priorities”. The “old ones” that overlooked accountability, performance and teaching as a vocation have a litany of verifiable failures.
