''Corriere Canadese'' ("The Canadian Courier") is an
Italian-language daily
newspaper
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published in
Toronto, Ontario
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, Canada. The publication is distributed exclusively in
Ontario
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and
Quebec
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, primarily throughout the
Greater Toronto and the
Greater Montreal areas.
''Corriere Canadese'' was founded on 2 June 1954 (
Republic Day) by
Dan Iannuzzi Daniel Andrèa Iannuzzi,"Corriere Canadese founder dead at 70; 'A giant in the field of Canadian media' PM Newspaper founder dies suddenly in Italy," ''Toronto Star'', November 22, 2004, p. A16. (February 24, 1934 – November 20, 2004) was a C ...
, and since 2001 was owned by Multimedia Nova Corporation and published by Italmedia. In 1995, it launched ''Tandem'', an English-language, weekend edition of ''Corriere Canadese'' targeting children of Italian immigrants.
The newspaper suspended publication in May 2013 blaming a 2010 cut in subsidies by the Italian government for its financial difficulty. In July, M.T.E.C. Consultants, a group of Italo-Canadian entrepreneurs, acquired the assets of Corriere Canadese and Tandem. The former federal minister
Joe Volpe
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is the new publisher, Francesco Veronesi the new
editor in chief
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.
Corriere published a series of 28 articles by Volpe between October 17, 2020 and January 8, 2021 attacking the
Toronto Catholic District School Board
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and the LGBT YouthLine program, according to the
Ontario Superior Court in The program was removed from the TCDSB website, then reinstated shortly after. Volpe and M.T.E.C. brought a $30 million lawsuit against city councilors
Kristyn Wong-Tam and
Paul Ainslie
Paul Ainslie ( ; born February 4, 1967) is a city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2006, he was appointed as an interim councillor in ward 41, and was then elected as the councillor for Ward 43 in Scarborough East. On October 22, 2018 h ...
, as well as four TCDSB trustees who supported YouthLine, and reporter Elizabeth di Filippo who noted his "well documented anti-LGBTQ+ views."
The lawsuit was dismissed as a
SLAPP. Volpe and M.T.E.C. were ordered to pay the defendants' legal costs.
See also
*
List of newspapers in Canada
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Local weeklies
Alberta
* Airdrie – ''Airdrie Echo''
* Bashaw – '' Bashaw Star''
* Bassano – ''Bassano Times''
* Beaumont – ...
*
Media in Toronto
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Joe Volpe
Giuseppe "Joe" Volpe (born September 21, 1947) is a Canadian politician. He represented the Ontario riding of Eglinton-Lawrence as a member of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 until 2011, when he lost his seat t ...
References
Italian-Canadian culture
Italian-language newspapers
Newspapers published in Toronto
Multicultural and ethnic newspapers published in Canada
Publications established in 1954
Publications disestablished in 2013
Daily newspapers published in Ontario
1954 establishments in Ontario
2013 disestablishments in Ontario
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