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 – Gasoline prices are skyrocketing. The price increases for fuels do not stop, on the contrary they reach new records. Today pump prices reached a record $214.9 per liter in GTA and most of southern Ontario. And the day before, Saturday, they had touched $2.11 per liter. An unstoppable race to the top that infuriates powerless motorists in the face of the increases that are now almost the order of the day.
MONTREAL – Dans ma chronique du mois dernier, j’ai fait valoir que le Canada a un problème majeur de croissance de la productivité et qu’il doit sérieusement envisager d’adopter un plan pluriannuel détaillé pour s’attaquer au cœur de ce problème. Nous devons trouver des moyens d’encourager les entreprises à investir dans les nouvelles technologies, l’innovation et leurs employés. Il n’y a pas de solution miracle ou d’approche unique pour assurer notre croissance économique et relancer la piètre productivité du Canada, en particulier dans une économie post-Covid.
MONTREAL – Il mese scorso, ho sostenuto che il Canada ha un importante problema di crescita della produttività e che deve seriamente pensare di adottare un piano strutturale e pluriennale per risolvere alla radice questa criticità. Bisogna trovare il modo di incentivare le imprese ad investire nelle nuove tecnologie, nell’innovazione e nei loro dipendenti. Non esiste un approccio univoco che possa garantire la crescita economica e rilanciare la scarsa produttività del Canada, in particolare in un’economia post-Covid.
MONTREAL – In my column last month, I argued that Canada has a major productivity growth issue and seriously needs to consider adopting a comprehensive, multi-year plan to address this issue at its core. We need to find ways of encouraging businesses to invest in new technologies, innovation, and its people. There is no silver bullet or a one-size-fits-all approach to ensuring our economic growth and boosting Canada’s lackluster productivity record, particularly in a post-Covid economy.
VAUGHAN – Carpenter’s District Council of Ontario, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (the “Carpenters”) is today announcing that the province-wide strike of carpenters in the industrial, commercial and institutional (ICI) sector in the construction industry is now over.
