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 – Need light to endure this long grey winter? North Americans observe “Groundhog Day” on Monday, February 2nd. The day when we use a groundhog’s behavior to predict the remaining duration of winter. Based on an old Dutch tradition started in Pennsylvania, should the groundhog see his shadow and retreat into his home, Winter will last another 6 weeks…
