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, May 27: As the Toronto District Education Board (TDSB) under the guidance from the Ontario Provincial Education Ministry to resume physical classes from September this year, today the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association (OPSBA) has released a new Discussion Paper, Transitioning from the COVID-19 School Experience, which reveals two compelling realities that must be addressed following the COVID-19 pandemic. →
Who could forget the Northeast Blackout of 2003? Eighteen years ago, on August 14th,
50 million people in Canada and the USA lost power.
In Toronto, I remember hearing stories of students having to walk from their summer jobs down at Queens Quay to Yonge and Finch, 4 hours to get home, uphill. Along the way, variety store owners were offloading buckets of ice cream to these kids for their freezers had broken down.
Canada’s inbound and outbound medical tourism is convulsing and could come to a complete halt as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government comes under heavy pressure to continue to close air and land borders to international travel. Medical tourism to and from Canada is unlikely to return until 2022. →
On Sunday, an unprecedented situation took place, when – according to international press agencies – an Irish airline Ryanair flight FR4978 flying from Athens in Greece to Vilnius in Lithuania was “forced” to land in Belarus. The plane was in the airspace of Belarus only about 10 km (6 miles) from the border with Lithuania when it changed route and turned towards Minsk, the capital of Belarus. →
Who in the heck is running this place?
TORONTO – As organizations, Catholic school boards have a specific Constitutional role to play in Canadian society. The one in Toronto seems to be obsessed with things sexual, be they substantive issues like curricula or symbolic ones like flag-waving. →
