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By Enza Baiamonte Photos by Giovanni The Ottawa Italian Women’s FILO is an Ottawa based organization founded in 2003 by two women, both of whom are integral in promoting Italian Heritage in the Ottawa community: Anna Chiappa (presently Co-chair) and Ariella Hostetter (previous…
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Family Memories of Internment Giuseppe Costantini Gloria Costantini was nine years old when the RCMP came to her home on June 10, 1940 to arrest her father Giuseppe (Joe) Costantini. It was already a difficult time for the family, as their mother Teresina…
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Fabrizio Magnanini http://technosoc.blogspot.com Ennio Morricone is one of the best Italian composers of the last 50 years; he agreed an interview book with Antonio Monda, an Italian journalist and professor at New York University’s Tisch School of Art. During the book Monda asks…
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di Domenico Cellucci As we start a new year, let me take this occasion to wish each and everyone a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. As well, thanks to all of you for the super feedback you have provided me in…
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di Fabrizio Magnanini Piero Antinori just wrote his autobiograpphy and he called it “the fragrance of Chianti” (il profumo del Chianti). The book is very interesting even for people who are not expert about italian wine: it’s his personal…
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Stereotypes are rife when it comes to any nationality, but as with other nationalities, when it comes to Italians it’s impossible to paint everyone with the same brush. For an example, when an American woman asks a question like, “Should…
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di Antonio Bini ORTONA – Alla presenza di James Fox, Ambasciatore del Canada in Italia, è stata inaugurata presso il Museo della Battaglia (MUBA) di Ortona la mostra “I canadesi in Italia”, che rimarrà aperta fino all’11 dicembre 2011. La…
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By Dosi Cotroneo Looking back on my Italian upbringing, I can smile and reflect on many large family dinners, celebrations, and scoldings. That’s right – scoldings. It never ceases to amaze me how the fear-factor never leaves the child of…
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The Internment of Ottawa’s Italian Canadians during the Second World War PREFACE “Those who ignore history’s lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them.they may be forced to die by them.” Dan Simmons,…
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By Dosi Cotroneo Once again I find myself grappling with life’s most profound questions. I try to be a good mother, really I try. I try to be a good wife, really I try. I try to be a responsible…
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