RCI viva : Radio Canada International

Federal opposition leader Thomas Mulcair says Canada is suffering from Dutch disease - a manufacturing sector that has been damaged by a high dollar fueled by resource exports. The charge has infuriated the leaders of the main resource exporting provinces, Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. Now, a new report says that the reason for Canada`s competitive difficulties in manufacturing have more to do with offshore competition than the value of the Canadian dollar.

From Radio Canada International's 'Democracy and Religion' web series we hear about Kateri Tekawitha, the first native North American to be made a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.Carmel Kilkenny spoke with Ron Boyer, the man who championed Kateri's case in Rome and dedicated his life to building bridges between aboriginal and Catholic traditions.

As climate change forces animals to adapt to altered environments, new behaviours are emerging. A good example of this is the Grolar bear. These polar-bear/grizzly hybrids are becoming increasingly common on Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, which straddles the boundary between Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in the Western Arctic. We talk to polar bear expert and University of Alberta Professor Andrew Derocher.

Terry Haig joins Marc Montgomery for a look at what’s making news in sports.

The Link’s Calgary correspondent Frank Rackow is a musician as well as a broadcaster and brings us another selection of some of the best new recordings by Canadian artists. This week: Dala, Pilot to Bombardier and Hey Ocean

Jean De Dieu Tuyisenge, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, now lives in Canada’s Pacific coast province of British Columbia where he attends Vancouver's Simon Fraser University. The Link's correspondent Lorn Curry reports that Mr. Tuyisenge has created a non-profit group to help educate Rwandan youths in hopes of preventing history from repeating itself in his home country.