TORONTO – She said it before running as a candidate and reiterated it on Monday evening, during a meeting with NEPMCC, the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada: in the next few hours, Mitzie Hunter will resign as MPP of Ontario to being able to devote herself even more intensely to the electoral campaign that sees her engaged in the race for the office of Mayor of Toronto. (more…)
TORONTO – He was the champion of the rights of disabled people and throughout his life he fought against ableism, that is, that particular racism towards people with disabilities. With him therefore goes a bulwark of those rights: former television journalist and twenty-eighth deputy premier of Ontario from 2007 to 2014, David C. Onley (in the pic above, from his Facebook page), died at the age of 72. (more…)
TORONTO – Lorenzo Insigne like Sebastian Giovinco. The all- star striker playmaker for Napoli of the Italian Serie A and the Italian national team is apparently close to accepting an enticing offer from the ownership of Toronto FC for the coming season.
TORONTO – Yes, Nick Volpe, may he rest in peace, was related. As a high school student, I used to get that question a lot. He had recently retired as a Toronto Argonaut, a genuine and celebrated Grey Cup Championship hero. A Toronto boy, born and bred, and a real “class act” and “a problem solver”. (more…)
WEMBLEY – Italy beats England on penalties, after a heart-pounding final, and wins the title of European Champion for the second time in its history. Big party throughout Toronto where thousands of Italians flocked to the streets and squares to celebrate, on a blue-tinted Sunday. (more…)