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.
Danielle Smith is the UCP’s new leader and Alberta’s next premier. After a night of delays – the vote counts came hard – she won on the sixth and final ballot, defeating her closest challenger Travis Toews, former minister under outgoing UCP leader and premier, Jason Kenney: the result was 53.77 per cent of the votes to her and 46.23 per cent to Toews. Brian Jean, Rebecca Schulz, Todd Loewen, Rajan Sawhney and Leela Aheer were all eliminated in earlier rounds.
As the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on 4 April at Washington, DC, there has been readout from spokesperson Ned Price.
As anticipation builds for the call of a national election, there is no doubt things will be a little different for the campaign trail in the midst of a pandemic. Despite concerns that Canada may be at the start of a fourth wave, politicians have an obligation to get out in the community and spread their message. →
