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.
I am a non-indigenous Canadian who immigrated to this country from Southeast Asia. When I read about the remains of 215 children, one of whom as young as three years of age, being found at a former residential school in Kamloops, BC, I was appalled. (more…)
