TORONTO – The Public Health Agency of Canada is monitoring a new highly mutated variant of the virus that causes Covid-19, that has been detected in at least four countries, but no cases have been detected in Canada so far. It is “BA.2.86”, a “variant under monitoring” due to the “large number of mutations identified”: cases have been recorded in the United States, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Israel, although as of Friday fewer than ten confirmed cases have been reported worldwide. And none, we said, in Canada. →
OTTAWA – শরণার্থী বর্হিভূত বাংলাদেশের জনৈক শাহীন সরকার নামের এক ব্যক্তির অনুমোদিত আইনি পূর্নমূল্যায়ণ রায়ে কানাডার ফেডারেল কোর্টের বিচারক হেনরি এস. ব্রাউন লিখেছেন, ক্ষমতাসীন রাজনৈতিক আওয়ামী লীগ সদস্যবৃন্দ কতৃর্ক ওই ব্যক্তির পারিবারিক মুদি দোকান চাঁদাবাজির কবলে পড়েছে। যদিও ওই রায়টি ২০২২ সালের ৩ অক্টোবর রাজধানী অটোয়ায় প্রদান করা হয়, তথাপি তা অনুবাদ আকারে জনসমক্ষে প্রকাশ পেয়েছে গত ১৬ আগস্ট, ২০২৩।
OTTAWA – In a granted judicial review of Shahin Sarker, a non-conventional refugee from Bangladesh, the Canadian Federal Court Judge Henry S. Brown wrote in his judgment that, “he was targeted by members of the ruling Awami League political party to extort his family’s grocery business.”
TORONTO – Aumento delle tasse sulla casa, crescita dell’imposta sulla compravendite di proprietà residenziali, un nuovo balzello sui parcheggi, perfino la creazione di una tassa comunale sulla vendita di beni e servizi che vada a sommersi all’Hst. Sono queste alcune proposte messe ieri sul tavolo del dibattito politico a Toronto da un rapporto presentato dal City Manager Paul Johnson che dovranno essere discusse da City Hall per trovare un extra gettito da utilizzare per alleggerire il buco di bilancio dei conti cittadini…
TORONTO – Vacanze proibite in Canada per gli (aspiranti) turisti cinesi. La Cina ha infatti escluso il Canada dall’elenco delle destinazioni internazionali “approvate” per i gruppi turistici, mentre gli agenti di viaggio cinesi hanno ottenuto il via libera per prenotare viaggi post-pandemia in altri Paesi come Stati Uniti, Giappone, Corea del Sud, Australia…