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 – Yes, Nick Volpe, may he rest in peace, was related. As a high school student, I used to get that question a lot. He had recently retired as a Toronto Argonaut, a genuine and celebrated Grey Cup Championship hero. A Toronto boy, born and bred, and a real “class act” and “a problem solver”. (more…)
TORONTO – Sì, Nick Volpe, possa riposare in pace, era un mio parente. Quando ero studente delle superiori, mi veniva fatta spesso questa domanda. Si era da poco ritirato come Argonaut di Toronto, un autentico e celebrato campione/eroe della Grey Cup. Un ragazzo di Toronto, dove era nato e cresciuto, e un vero “esempio di classe” e “un risolutore di problemi”…
TORONTO – He was bigger than life.
If a political figure is measured by his influence on the Province, Bill Davis will surely emerge as one of the true fathers of a modern Ontario society. A a graduating university student, i remember him as a small-town lawyer deeply steeped in the ultra-conservative politics of an Ontario still very dependent on an agrarian based economy buttressed by a manufacturing-centred Toronto.
His home base was then “sleepy” Brampton, population 55,000. The Family Compact and the Orange Order, his core supporters, did not look too kindly upon those new post-war immigrants from Europe who were not British. (more…)
