TORONTO – Today, the number of Covid-19 patients in the intensive care units in Ontario has fallen again: now they are 474 (compared to 486 on Monday), the lowest number since last January 10, when 438 people were admitted to the ICU. →
KABUL – “Another epic #Kabul protest with Afghan women refusing to stop marching when facing off with #Taliban“: the tweet was posted today by Fazila Baloch, an activist who has been publishing images of the protests of Kabul women for days. In fact, in the Taliban capital, not a day goes by without Afghan women, now deprived of any rights and freedoms, taking to the streets to express their dissent. And, thanks to social networks, their protest is amplified worldwide. →
MAZARA DEL VALLO (Trapani) – Denise Pipitone in a song. A piece of music that sounds like an appeal to put an end to the silence that weighs, for the past seventeen years, on the case of the little child disappearance in Mazara del Vallo (in Sicily, Italy) on 1 September 2004, at the age of only four. →
TORONTO – Ontario is accelerating on the vaccination front. In the province the government is proceeding in stages sent in its dual strategy to curb the covid-19 contagion: on the one hand the progressive lowering of the minimum age in order to book vaccination and on the other hand the sending of at least 50 percent of the doses in the 114 provincial hotspots, those areas that is, where the contagion runs faster. Yesterday the executive confirmed that 50% of adults in the province received at least one dose of covid-19 vaccine. →
Today, the Colombian community in Toronto joins the protests of the UN and Brussels, which condemn the brutality of the security forces against the protesters who call for a halt to the Tax Reform. →
