News Archives: Issue 1
March 2003
Cover Story Census 2001
By Domenic Cusmano
Just How Many Canadians of Italian Origin Are There? ... And Where Do They Live? According to the census conducted in the summer of 2001, Canada's total population was estimated to be
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Books Swearing on the Bible
By Marisa De Franceschi
It was the ending, the final pages of Nino Ricci's Testament (Doubleday, 2002; $25.00) that gripped me most, even though I knew the ending before cracking the book's spine.
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Poem After September 11, 2001
By Elettra Bedon
It's winter already
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Fiction Call Display
By Delia De Santis
Giovanni meets his women in bars, late on weekend nights. He meets them the easy way; he goes over to them, or they come over to him. No sweat. Especially after he's had a few beers.
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Commentary Politics and the Book Fair
By Caterina Edwards
"The real risk for writers is to be relegated to the forgotten, censored. How can we deal with a government that reduces culture to profits and literature to bestsellers?" This question was posed
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Language Want to Speak a Second Language Without an Accent? Learn It Before You Turn Seven
By Julia D'Amedeo
Early childhood is the best time to learn a second language, according to Dr. Laura Ann Petitto, a neuropsychologist and the director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory for Language and Child Development at
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History What We Suffer Most Is Memory Itself
By Jim Zucchero
Some months ago in Toronto, a group of legal scholars gathered to discuss the administration of security in a multicultural society (like Canada) in the aftermath of the horrific events of.
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Chronicle City of a Perilous Legacy
By Venera Fazio
On June 10, 1940, and in the months following, while Canada was at war against Italy, hundreds of Italian Canadian men across the country were arrested by virtue of the War Measures Act
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Interview An Interview with the Honourable Sheila Copps, Minister of Canadian Heritage
By Domenic Cusmano
Thank you for agreeing to appear in the inaugural issue of Accenti Magazine
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Community Of Churches, Frescos and Historic Sites
By Filippo Salvatore
Last November 30, Canadian Heritage Minister Sheila Copps, in a simple but meaningful ceremony, designated Madonna della Difesa Church, in the heart of Montreal's Little Italy,
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View from across the 49th Parallel Italian Americans and Italian American Cultural Power
By Ken Scambray
Shortly after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison said that the personal significance of the award was that as an African American it gave her power. What Morrison meant was that.
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Cover Story Mainstream Media and The Godfather Legacy
By Francesca L'Orfano
In 1972, Francis Ford Coppola's controversial screen adaptation of MarioPuzo's best-selling novel The Godfather opened in theatres across North America to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim
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From our Readers
I want to congratulate you on your initiative in bringing forth Accenti Magazine to address issues that are relevant to many Italo-Canadesi; issues that will hopefully allow us to
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From our Editor
By Domenic Cusmano
Why a Magazine About Italian Canadians? Why in English? Why Accenti? Many people have asked me these questions in one form or another in the months leading up to the launch of this Magazine.
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