Culture

Something big is unfolding in Sicily, and no, it’s not a new season of White Lotus. There is a saying in Sicilian: Biatu ḍḍu aceḍḍu chi fa lu nidu a lu so pajisi. It means, loosely, “It’s a lucky bird who gets to build his nest in the same land he came from.” Those of us from an emigrant background will immediately recognize the poignancy of this statement—how brave, or desperate, that generation must have been to venture out and leave the only place they’d ever known. For some, the…

The Women of Steel project pays tribute to the Italian immigrant women of Montreal’s first generation who dedicated their lives…

In 1946, Montreal restaurateur Frank Roncarelli, an Italian immigrant from Bologna, did the unimaginable – he sued the most powerful…