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 – Here we go again. The Ontario government’s ostentatious security about the reopening of schools after the Christmas holidays has melted like snow in the sun. After a timid two-day postponement announced last week, the bad news arrived on Monday: schools will remain closed at least until January 17. Ford suddenly reversed course and ordered schools to switch to virtual learning.
TORONTO – For Ontario students, the Christmas holidays have officially begun. What is not clear at the moment is whether the doors of the schools will reopen on January 4, but the current situation suggests that it will not happen. →
TORONTO – There are active cases of Covid-19 in nearly a quarter of Ontario’s schools. The situation is also destined to worsen as the number of infections, due to the Omicron variant, continues to grow at an exponential rate. →
TORONTO – The evidence can no longer be denied. Covid-19 entered Ontario schools from the main entrance. Almost one in a hundred public schools is now closed due to Covid-19 outbreaks or operational reasons related to the pandemic. If only two days ago the institutes closed due to outbreaks of the virus were 28, the number today – according to data provided by the Ministry of Education – jumped to 47. As many as 47 schools closed with the transfer of children to distance learning with Covid that continues to create havoc as regards face-to-face lessons. →
TORONTO – Ontario hit a record 550 new cases of Covid-19 among public school students and staff within twenty-four hours, and more than a fifth of all public schools have at least one active case for the first time during this school year. →
