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 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-Radio Canada (CBC) is arguably one of Canada’s most important nation building assets. It is supposed to help shape and convey the Canadian reality to all Canadians. For that reason alone, the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) – its titular boss – grants it a license giving it privileges and protections not available to other broadcasters and “creators”.
The Canadian Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission – CRCT – has made important decisions that will allow smaller players – mobile operators to enter the market as MVNO’s – “mobile virtual network operators”. (more…)
More than five million Venezuelans have left their country in recent years, and despite the fact that Canada heads the Lima Group that recognizes the Venezuelan problems and promotes reception and support for Venezuelans, it has not opened reunification or refugee programs for the displaced. (more…)
