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 – After the parents, pediatricians take the field. The Canadian Paediatric Society, the Pediatrics Section of the Ontario Medical Association and the Pediatricians Alliance of Ontario have written an open letter to Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Stephen Lecce urging them to resume face-to-face classes in schools by January 17.
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…)
[GTranslate]Social media has infiltrated almost every aspect of modern life. Worldwide, social media users number about 3.8 billion, roughly 50% of the global population.
It is a means by which people can stay in touch, interact and a way to create and/or exchange information and ideas in a virtual environment. It can be a beneficial tool, especially at a time when medical experts advise keeping physically distanced to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. (graph 1, see above)
[GTranslate]ROME – The latest report from Istat, the Italian National Statistical Institute, is like a war bulletin: 384 thousand fewer people, “as if there were no Florence” explains the Institute, with the highest number of deaths after World War II and the collapse of marriages and births. The pandemic has had devastating effects. (more…)
