Originally Published: 2009-11-01

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“We want to grow and renew ourselves through the Internet and to compare the three generations of our community,” explained Bernardini. “This is why we came up with ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’ as a slogan. The Corriere Canadese/Tandem (corriere.com and corrieretandem.com) will be our relay point between the culture of antiquity, of memory, and that of today, so as to create a top-quality mass-media newspaper that is also able to provide a synthesis of the day’s news.”
The new online projects are “Italianità,” “Sport,” and “i-Cult.” The first was created in collaboration with the Italian Consulate in Toronto and was inaugurated with a letter by Consul General Gianni Bardini to the Italian community to stimulate debate on the future. It is a section dedicated to the extensive reality that is “associazionismo” (our culture’s group-forming propensity), and one that is also open to the new generations that represent the future of Italian-ness in Canada with its link to AGIC, the Associazione Giovani Italo-Canadese (an Italian-Canadian youth association).
“Other projects in the works,” explained our Editor-in-Chief, “include a site dedicated to sport, with a focus on the Raptors, Maple Leafs, Toronto FC, Vancouver 2010, and next summer’s World Cup soccer tournament.”
iCult, on the other hand, will be a site dedicated to culture, art, cinema, science, and technology.
“It will be our flagship,” said Bernadini, “with columns by writers, researchers, archeologists, directors, and artists. It’s an ambitious project that is also to be developed in paper format: Corriere Canadese/Tandem will publish, both in Italian and in English, four pages per week dedicated to culture that will be also used by some Departments of Italian Studies at Canadian universities, and at schools where English is taught as a second language.”
One of these sections will be created by Anthony Mollica, professor emeritus of second-language education at Brock University in St. Catharines, who has granted to Corriere Canadese and Tandem use of his publication “Giochiamo con le parole” (“Play on Words”).

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