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.
OTTAWA – Here we go again. The Bank of Canada will raise its benchmark interest rate by 0.75% on Wednesday: a new increase, therefore, after the 0.50% increase on June 1, when the rate was raised to 1.50. %. From Wednesday, it will be at 2.25%. The reason, as always, is that of the “fight against inflation” which in recent weeks has reached its highest level in almost 40 years: 7.7 per cent.
TORONTO – Con l’aumento del costo della vita, sempre più canadesi si rivolgono alle food bank (banche alimentari) per ricevere supporto. Secondo un nuovo rapporto, HungerCount 2021 di Food Banks Canada, nel marzo del 2021 più di 1,3 milioni di canadesi hanno visitato le banche del cibo. A livello nazionale, la domanda di banchi alimentari è aumentata del 20% rispetto a marzo 2019, l’aumento più rapido dalla recessione economica del 2008…
