''Corriere Canadese'' ("The Canadian Courier") is an Italian-language daily

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published in

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, Canada. The publication is distributed exclusively in

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and

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, 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 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 ...

is the new publisher, Francesco Veronesi the new

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. Corriere published a series of 28 articles by Volpe between October 17, 2020 and January 8, 2021 attacking the

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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

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, 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.

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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 {{Canada-newspaper-stub

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