TLN Media Group is a proud media partner of Italian Week Ottawa featuring a lineup of virtual events running from June 10-20. Lydia Di Francesco, Director of Community Engagement for the festival, talks upcoming activities geared towards both Italian Canadians and those interested in learning more about Italian culture.
Head to italianweekottawa.ca for the full calendar of events!
National Multilingual Public Service Announcements
to run across the networks’ TV channels and Digital Platforms
Now more than ever, seniors are in need of our support. TLN Media Group, Canada’s most influential multicultural media company, announces the launch of the network’s annual month-long multilingual Elder Abuse Prevention Public Service Announcement Campaign which will run from June 1st – 30th 2021 during Senior’s Month in Ontario.
TLN Media Group has produced 30-second PSA messages in English, Spanish and Italian languages, with the national campaign broadcasting on TLN Television, Univision Canada and Mediaset Italia TV channels with corresponding online content on respective digital platforms.
The focus this year is on raising awareness and helping with the prevention of financial abuse towards senior citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial abuse is the most common form of elder abuse in Canada, where 1 in 5 seniors experience being taken advantage of in theft, fraud, and many other forms of financial abuse. Abusers can be people who are close to their victims such as a family member, or they may be professional criminals who target the elderly via phone or internet. Whether misusing or stealing a senior’s assets or forcing them to sign legal documents they do not understand, it is important to recognize that the abuse is not acceptable.
TLN Media Group is dedicated to the wellbeing of seniors across Canada and our goal is to provide awareness of financial abuses targeting seniors in an effort against fraud and financial exploitation, and to ensure that we are looking after of some of the most vulnerable members in our community. Seniors should be equipped with the information to protect themselves, to make informed decisions on whom to trust, and to be aware of available assistance programs.
As a multicultural media leader in our Canadian ethnic communities for nearly 4 decades, TLN Media Group understands it is especially important to address these more vulnerable groups on these important issues in their first language of choice.
Join TLN Media Group in helping to protect our seniors- if this is happening to you or someone close to you, ask for help from your bank or another family member.
Break the silence. Stop the Abuse.
Italian-Canadian Author, Giovanna Bonomo, chats with TLN Media Group host Antonio Giorgi about her book “Lost and Found in Italy” which topped the Amazon “Hot New Releases” list at #1. Giovanna is also giving away a FREE Kindle copy of her book to all TLN viewers, submit your email to lostandfoundinitaly.com to receive your gift!
This past weekend, Toronto Sun’s columnist Rita DeMontis shined a light on TLN Media Group’s latest Original documentary “Internment: The Untold Stories (Il Confino: Una Storia Mai Conclusa)”.
TLN Media Group CEO, Aldo Di Felice, reminisced with DeMontis about their respective lived experiences growing up Italian in the Toronto of the 1960’s through the 80’s—overcoming the collective psychological inferiority complex. A burden imposed on Italian Canadians by the establishment and society, the lasting effects of government sponsored race based discrimination.
DeMontis writes, “Unwarranted shame is a terrible burden to carry one’s whole life.”
TLN’s timely documentary made its premiere on TLN TV and Mediaset Italia May 28th and 29th—following the historic apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the House of Commons for the internment and incarceration without trial of Italian-Canadians during the Second World War.
Click here to read DeMontis’ story about TLN Media Group’s documentary special on the events of the 1940s that reverberated for decades.
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Jaime Escallon-Buraglia of Lulo Films joins TLN Media Group host Antonio Giorgi to talk producing the recently completed documentary “Internment [Il Confino]”. This moving story exposes the heartbreak and humiliation associated with a little known chapter in Canadian history that has left a deep scar on the Italian Canadian community.
As Canada’s most influential multicultural media company and the leading media source for Italian Canadians for nearly four decades, TLN Media Group takes great pride in producing culturally significant Made In Canada programs that spark important conversations and reflect on our history.
Watch the trailer in English and Italian here.
TLN Media Group host Antonio Giorgi was honoured to have a one-on-one interview with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss the deep scars associated with Italian Canadians interned during the Second World War.
On May 27th, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the historic apology in the House of Commons, along with party leaders and federal MP’s, for the internment and incarceration without trial of Italian-Canadians during the Second World War.
David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, reflects on the historic apology made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on May 27th for the internment of hundreds of Italian-Canadians.
Minister Lametti took part in TLN Media Group’s just completed special documentary “Internment [Il Confino]” commemorating the little known chapter in Canadian history that has left a deep scar on the Italian-Canadian community.
