Testing for hepatitis C should be done on all Canadians born between 1945 and 1975 and on all immigrants, urges the Canadian Liver Foundation. This follows a similar recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control last year. Hepatitis C… »
Highlights / Year: 2013
Highlights, Indigenous, Society
Thousands march in Vancouver for “residential school” reconciliation
For about 100 years, the federal government funded Christian-church run schools across Canada for aboriginal children, with the last one closing in 1996. Ostensibly to provide aboriginal children with an education and bring them into the “modern” world, the system however… »
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June flooding costliest natural disaster in Canada
Floods ravaging the western province of Alberta caused $1.7 billion dollars in insured property damage this summer making this the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history, says the Insurance Bureau of Canada. Four people died and 100,000 others were forced… »
Environment & Animal Life, Highlights
Climate change pushing lobster further north to cooler water.
Recently a couple of Mola Mola (ocean sunfish) fish species,typically found in much warmer tropical and temperate water have been spotted in east coast New Brunswick. There has been speculation that due to climate change, the Mola have been venturing further… »
Redskins team will change “offensive” name
Saying its name “is offensive to some, and thus divisive to our community” a youth football team in Ontario will drop the moniker Nepean Redskins and its logo of an aboriginal head. Native Ojibway musician Ian Campeau had filed a… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
1 in 20 Canadians have “food addictions”– study
Seven per cent of Canadian women and 3 per cent of men engage in “compulsive overeating in harmful and unhealthy ways,” according to a new study from Memorial University in the eastern province of Newfoundland and Labrador. While some people… »
ARTS- Multi-city “Word on the Street” literary festival
This week on the show we hear about the biggest literary festival in Canada. Big crowds mill about at the “marketplace” area of the immensely popular Word on the Street, in Toronto © Magdalene Cooper It’s a multi-city event taking place… »
Indigenous, International, Politics
Politics Today – September 22, 2013
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on the Official Opposition NDP party’s decision to hold an online Twitter version of the House of Commons Question Period because of the prorogation of parliament. He also deals with a… »
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The LINK Online
Welcome to another edition of our online programme. The regular team of Wojtek and Lynn, join me Marc as we once again talk about stories that were newsworthy this week across Canada We start out with a most disturbing story… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Politics
Tahltan First Nation protesters of coal mine project prepare for arrests
First Nation Indigenous members of a camp protesting a coal mining operation think they may be arrested this weekend. The group of about 50 people, including women and children, is camped in the northwestern part of the Pacific coast province… »
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