NAPLES – She travels 1,600 kilometers a day by train to go to work and back home. Apparently it’s less expensive given the rental prices. These days, it is no exaggeration to define the worker Giuseppina Giuliano, a 29-year-old school worker, stoic: every day the Naples-Milan route (and back) is made by train because the city of the Madonnina, where she works as a janitor at the art school ” Boccioni” in piazzale Arduino, is too expensive and therefore, on balance, it is more advantageous to take the train and stay and live with her parents in Naples. (more…)
TORONTO – As the price of gasoline continues to rise to levels never seen before, public transport agencies are experiencing a considerable increase in passengers.
[GTranslate]For nearly one week, the passage through the Suez Canal has come to a complete halt. The cost, up to $10 billions USD a day. On March 23, the Ever Given, a Japanese-owned cargo ship registered in Panama, ran aground and became lodged diagonally in the canal following reports of high winds and low visibility. (more…)
[GTranslate]TORONTO – Hire thousands of personal support workers (PSW) and place infection control specialists in long-term care homes, – as has been done in Quebec – a system to allow hospitals to support the long-term care industry and to ensure seniors don’t have to share a room in three or four. These are some of the various proposals Ontario doctors have made to protect LTC residents but which the government has rejected “as too expensive.” (more…)