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.
The Supreme Court decision defending Ottawa’s carbon price has been hailed as a victory for climate activists seeking tougher tax incentives to curb pollution. But it has also been viewed as a loss by some provinces who insist the federal guidelines are nothing more than meddling. →
[GTranslate]QUEEN’S PARK — NDP Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement on today’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling, which strikes down the Doug Ford Conservatives’ legal challenge against the federal carbon price: →
TORONTO – You know that there is no longer any use in talking if your views can only be resolved before a Court of Law. In that event, ideology is measured and quantified in terms of Rights and Money/Cost. At that point, one is no longer an exchange of ideas and points of view. →
Given the history of violence that accompanies these summits, most locals, i.e., Torontonians living in the downtown core opted to leave the city or stay in their domiciles. I preferred to be in the thick of things when such a magnitude of an event is taking place in my neck of the woods. With my Manila Times ID, I trekked to the (CNE) Canadian National Exhibition grounds, where the journalists were getting accredited with the mindset that if people from far away places like China, India and South Africa are able to travel here to cover the events, why not me who lives right in the heart of Toronto. When I arrived at the CNE, I presented myself as a foreign correspondent for The Manila Times. I encountered some resistance at first but after explaining in the interview that I had been to the White House and Parliament Hill, Asia Pacific Conference (APEC) to cover big events involving world leaders and that I was a governor council appointee, I was cleared by the CSIS and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). →
