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 – Boosting the economy, supporting the middle class, funding for health care, arms control and fighting climate change. These are the key themes of the Liberal Party’s electoral platform presented today in Toronto by grit leader Justin Trudeau. A program, the one announced by the outgoing prime minister, which includes a total spending plan of 78 billion dollars spread over the next five years, with 13 billion that will be invested in the current fiscal year. →
The constituency of York South-Weston is located in central Toronto just south of Humber River-Black Creek and York Centre districts. The districts of Eglinton-Lawrence, Davenport, Parkdale-High Park and Etobicoke Centre also border the area.
With a population of 116,685 residents, the riding is home to a number of culturally diverse ethnic groups. According to Statistics Canada, in 2016 (most current data available), people who identify as Italian make up 13% of the constituents in the district. →
TORONTO – Il collegio elettorale di Humber River-Black Creek si trova all’estremità settentrionale dei confini della città di Toronto tra i distretti di York Centre ed Etobicoke-North. Prima del 2015, l’area era conosciuta come York West. Il suo nome è stato cambiato a seguito di un processo di ridistribuzione dei distretti. L’area è composta da una popolazione diversificata con persone che hanno diverse origini etniche. Secondo Statistics Canada, nel 2016 (dati più recenti disponibili), gli italiani costituiscono una parte significativa della popolazione, al 13%. Ciò si traduce in 13.800 residenti. Altri gruppi culturali includono quelli che si identificano come indiani provenienti dal paese asiatico, giamaicani e vietnamiti…
TORONTO – La tempesta perfetta, uno scenario da incubo, si sta materializzando per Justin Trudeau. I nuovi sondaggi certificano il momento di grande difficoltà per il primo ministro uscente, che non solo incassa il rafforzamento del Partito Conservatore nelle intenzioni di voto, ma che è anche costretto a subire la crescita dell’Ndp. Il Partito Liberale, partito alla vigilia della campagna elettorale nettamente in vantaggio, in questo momento è fortemente ridimensionato, stretto tra due fuochi, con Erin O’Toole che continua a rosicchiare voti da destra e con Jagmeet Singh che inizia ad erodere il consenso da sinistra…
OTTAWA – Hundreds of Canadian citizens, permanent residents and family members remain in Afghanistan: Foreign Minister Marc Garneau (in the pic) revealed today, while the federal government announced its intention to resettle 5,000 Afghans already brought out of the country by the United States. “The main thing we needed to figure out was how many Canadian citizens or permanent residents and family members were able to board some of our allies’ flights,” Garneau said at a press conference today. “We estimate that there are currently around 1,250 Canadian citizens or permanent residents or family members who are in Afghanistan”. →
