Category: News Updates

CORRIERE CANADESE / Dal Canada controdazi per quasi 30 miliardi

TORONTO – Nuova improvvisa escalation nella guerra commerciale con gli Stati Uniti. Il governo canadese ha annunciato ieri tariffe doganali per un totale di 29,8 miliardi di dollari in risposta ai dazi americani, scattati un minuto dopo la mezzanotte, sull’alluminio e sull’acciaio. Il giro di vite deciso da Ottawa, in particolare, prenderà di mira determinati prodotti e si andrà ad aggiungere ai 30 miliardi di dollari di controdazi già annunciati in precedenza. Nel dettaglio, 12,6 miliardi di dollari colpiranno i prodotti in acciaio che il Canada importa dagli States, 3 miliardi di dollari i prodotti in alluminio e 14,2 miliardi altri beni e prodotti… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

CORRIERE CANADESE / Italian agri-food industry to stop ‘US dependency’

TORONTO – My maternal grandfather, Leonardo Liscio, settled permanently in the Annex quarter of Toronto, in the early 1900s. He had travelled back and forth across the Atlantic in the late 1800s before making his residency permanent and his citizenship Canadian [British Subject]. Readers will, hopefully, forgive my self-indulgence when I praise his resiliency and commitment to this country. It was not always a bed of roses, as the saying goes. Count your blessings and push ahead, he would say 0when i tried to commiserate with him in moments of sorrowful reflection… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

News Publishers Call on Canada Post CEO to Support Local News

We publish an article by Paul Deegan, President and Chief Executive Officer of News Media Canada (the pic above is by Andrys Stienstra from Pixabay).

TORONTO – For many Canadian community news publishers, Canada Post is really the only game in town when it comes to distributing their newspapers to readers. This is especially true in more rural and remote communities. A year ago, Canada Post decided that community newspapers with commercial inserts – like Canadian Tire or grocery store flyers – were no longer exempt from Canada Post’s Consumers’ Choice program, which allows Canadians to opt out of receiving ‘junk mail’.