Carmel Kilkenny
Carmel Kilkenny
Carmel Kilkenny grew up in Toronto as it was in the early stages of becoming the "most multi-cultural city" in the world. A year living in Paris, France provided the time and opportunity to study the language, and experience the culture. It also provided a base to visit other European destinations. Now Carmel makes her home in Montreal, Quebec. Following a degree in Communication Studies and Journalism, Carmel anchored Quebec’s late-night TV newscast, worked in radio, locally and on RCI’s short-waves, and spent some time sharing daily forecasts on a network of radio stations across Canada as a weather specialist. These days, as a freelance writer-broadcaster, she is lending her voice and writing skills to a number of projects and continuing to share great Canadian stories on Radio Canada International’s website. RCI journalist Carmel Kilkenny dies after short illness

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Deciem founder Brandon Truaxe died over the weekend

Deciem is the Canadian skincare company Brandon Truaxe launched in 2013, as The Ordinary skin care line. The company’s former CEO died over the weekend at the age of 40, after a fall from a balcony in a downtown Toronto »

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Indigenous map of Canada presents a different landscape

Indigenous peoples and cultures in Canada are undergoing a renaissance in the wake of the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and a new giant map that charts the places and spaces before European contact, is providing a greater visual and »

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Zamboni ditched by fierce winds in Nova Scotia

Zamboni’s are heavy machines. The ice-resurfacing vehicles can weigh in the vicinity of 1500 kilograms, and that’s what the wild winds over Nova Scotia shifted this past weekend. It happened in Lower Burlington, about 80 kilometres northwest of Halifax, Nova »

Environment & Animal Life, Politics

Millenial vote a major factor in Canada’s next election

Millenials, those young people born between 1980 and 2000, are part of the largest segment eligible to vote in the upcoming federal election in October. The youth vote, which surged from 41 percent of those eligible to cast a ballot, »

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Céline Dion joins the R. Kelly backlash

Céline Dion is joining the backlash against R. Kelly, the American R&B singer, who is featured in the recent documentary series called, Surviving R. Kelly. The series premiered at the beginning of January and follows years of Kelly’s alleged abuse and »

Environment & Animal Life, Society

Messages in Bottles: Magdalen Islands man has over 100

Messages in bottles became the hobby of Jean-Guy Poirier who now has 104 in his collection. It all began in 2004 during a walk on one of the beaches on the Madgalen Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. “After I »

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My favourite story of 2018: the bridge from space

Confederation Bridge, the fixed link to Canada’s tiny island province of Prince Edward Island, is the only human-made creation that astronauts can see from the International Space Station (ISS). “I’ve had the chance to see P.E.I. from space” This is »

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Debbie Travis’ latest book: Design Your Next Chapter

Debbie Travis, the serial TV host and entrepreneur, has a new book out, sharing her insights and experience in personal transformation, as well as several other people’s amazing stories. When I spoke to her during the week before Christmas, she »

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Trade troubles dominate 2018 in Canada

Trade has been one of the dominant foreign affairs issues for Canada this year, and the situation has deteriorated significantly as we enter the new year. The arrest and detention of Meng Wanzhou, Huawei CFO, in Vancouver, at the request »

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Bryan Adams new album in 2019

Bryan Adams, the Canadian rocker, is finishing up his world tour with some dates in eastern Canada in the new year, including a stop in Halifax, Nova Scotia on January 23, and Montreal on the 26th. And his fierce fans »