Highlights / Month: April 2014

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

Canadian farmers campaign against increasing seed-patent control.

It may seem a remote to most citizens and it has barely made the news, but farmers of all kinds across Canada are extremely concerned about proposed new legislation.  It would increase rights of plant patent holders and limit farmers »

Economy, Health, Society

Workplace safety improves but three die daily

Workplace safety has improved in Canada, but even so, 977 workers died in 2012 for an average of three per day. April 28th has been designated the National Day of Mourning to raise awareness about workers injured, killed or afflicted »

Society

Premier and minister slam anti-immigration flyer

“Hateful” is how the premier of the province of Ontario characterized anti-immigration flyers that were circulated in Brampton, a city just west of Toronto. The leaflets show a picture of a group of Caucasians above a separate photo of  a »

Highlights, Society

Rail safety week in Canada

To mark the start of Public Rail safety Week (Apr 28, May 4) the federal government is announcing over $9.2 million dollars in funding to improve level crossing upgrades. Level crossings or grade crossings are where the road surface is »

Environment & Animal Life, Health

Canada’s problem controlling antibiotic resistance

Chicken farmers in Canada will voluntarily stop injecting eggs and chicks with antibiotics to stop the rise of resistant microbes that threaten humans and chickens, as Marc Montgomery reported this week. The ban goes into effect May 15th and scientists »

Uncategorized

Book: Bumble bees of North America

This week, a bit of lifestyle  (hobbies/pastimes) mixed in with science and nature, as we speak to the co-author of a book on bumble bees. Sheila Colla (PhD) has worked with one of the world’s leading wild bee experts at »

Politics

Politics Today – April 27, 2014

On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird who is in Europe shoring up support to deal with the situation in Ukraine. He reports on the continuing controversy over the Canadian »

Uncategorized

the LINK online (Sat. Apr. 26, 2014)

This week Lynn Desjardins and Marc Montgomery present the show. We are living in dangerous times, but we are lucky.  In fact we’ve been lucky a long time. Travelling at tens of thousand of kilometers an hour, even a small »

Economy, Politics, Society

Supreme Court rules on Senate reform

Canada’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously today, that the federal government alone does not have the power to make changes, or indeed abolish the Canadian Senate. The eight judges of the top court considered three scenarios: enforcing fixed terms of nine »

Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

Canadian web documentary highlights Arctic science

Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from across the North Ever wondered how noise affects marine mammals in the Arctic? Or what glacial ice really looks like? Profiles from the Arctic is a new web documentary that answers »