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.
Some of the most valued drivers of human behaviour include family, community, trust[worthiness] and education. The last two can have a significant impact on society as a whole. Families, who entrust their children to the publicly funded education system expect a level of transparency and trust[worthiness] from those responsible for delivering a quality education in a safe environment.
TORONTO – Gli alleati del ministro Lecce a livello di consiglio d’istituto stanno cadendo come mosche, o almeno così sembra. Giovedì scorso i fiduciari del Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) sono stati costretti a prendere le distanze dall’agenda sui diritti umani di Lecce e chiedergli di tirarli fuori dalle sabbie mobili dei problemi legati al Covid per quanto riguarda il personale, le dimensioni delle classi e i problemi di salute. Gli hanno inviato una lettera educata, piena di cavilli, chiedendo più soldi ($ 42.000.000 secondo la nostra stima)…
TORONTO – Parola d’ordine: è colpa dell’altro. Nel caos in cui si trova il settore scolastico dell’Ontario, caratterizzato da accuse, veleni, polemiche, denunce, ripicche e divisioni, abbiamo assistito al più classico gioco dello scaricabarile sulle responsabilità di una situazione che sta diventando insostenibile, specialmente nel Toronto Catholic District School Board. Per cercare di capire cosa stia succedendo, dobbiamo per forza di cose partire da un dato di fatto: a partire dal 12 ottobre c’è stato un accorpamento di decine di classi in moltissime scuole del provveditorato cattolico, con l’aumento conseguente del numero degli studenti nelle singole aule…
TORONTO – What happened to three teachers on the York Region District School Board seems surreal. The teachers who have chosen to buy and wear N95 masks in class say they have been threatened with disciplinary sanctions because only the use of blue surgical masks – the least protective ones, to be clear – supplied to the school board is allowed. (more…)
TORONTO – Rule number one: it’s not my fault. In the chaos in which Ontario’s Education sector finds itself, characterized by accusations, invective, controversies, complaints, retaliation and divisions, we have witnessed the most classic blame game on the responsibilities in a situation that is becoming unsustainable, especially in the Toronto Catholic District School Board. To try to understand what is happening, we must necessarily start from a fact: starting from October 12 there has been a merger of dozens of classes in many schools of the Catholic Board, with the consequent increase in the number of students in the individual classrooms. (more…)
