Link hosts: Lynn Desjardins, Marc Montgomery, Levon Sevunts

Link hosts: Lynn Desjardins, Marc Montgomery, Levon Sevunts
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the LINK Online Sun. Nov. 20, 2016

Your hosts, Lynn, Levon, Marc

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We open with a special guest as Caroline Nepton joins us briefly in studio to talk about a new Radio-Canada website in the French language devoted to aboriginal issues.  It’s called, Espaces Autochtones    In English: CBC – Indigenous, and radio show (also online)  Unreserved  also deal with a wide variety of aboriginal subjects in Canda

A new survey reveals a substantial number of Canadian journalists self-censor what the write, and weven what sites they visit fro research online. It’s all over fears of being tracked by police, governments, and corporate interests.
A new survey reveals a substantial number of Canadian journalists self-censor their work over fears of being tracked by police, governments, and corporate interests. © Francisco Seco/Associated Press

Recent events in the news in Canada has sent shock waves through the journalistic community.

It was revealed in the past few weeks that police in Quebec had been monitoring reporters mobile phones in order to trace the source of their informants.

Even before that however, the Canadian Association of Journalists, PEN-Canada, and the Centre for Free Expression had conducted a survey of journalists showed a high level of  writer chill, i,e., journalists were self-censoring out of fears of becoming targets of surveillance by police, the government, or corporate interests.

James Turk is the director of the Centre for Free Expression, He says excessive police surveillance poses a threat to democracy.

Marc spoke to Mr Turk in his office at the University of Toronto

Environmental activist David Suzuki was in Montreal to announce the second phase of the Blue Dot movement, a national grassroots campaign to enshrine environmental rights in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Environmental activist David Suzuki was in Montreal to announce the second phase of the Blue Dot movement, a national grassroots campaign to enshrine environmental rights in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. © Levon Sevunts / RCI

Canada’s best known environmentalist is perhaps David Suzuki.

The respected scientist, author, and host of a popular science documentary show was in Montreal recently as part of a cross-Canada tour to promote  the Blue-Dot movement. This is part of a grass-roots campaign to enshrine environmental rights into Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Levon wanted to speak to him about the Blue Dot movement, but the conversation started with concerns about the election of Donald Trump, a self-described climate change denier.

Dr Suzuki spoke about the implications of the election and what that might mean for the enviroment.

A ibg man wih a bigger voice: one of Canada’s legendeary blues singers and performers, Bob Walsh has died
A big man with a bigger voice and a huge presence on stage, Bob Walsh of Montreal has died. He was a legendeary Canadian blues singer and performer, © radio-canada

Our Canadian song this week is once again tainted with sadness.

A legendary Montreal-based blues performer has died, just a week after we lost Leonard Cohen.

Bob Walsh is considered the godfather of the blues in the province of Quebec, and certainly a leading blues figure in Canada.

Having made several tours of Europe and as a regular at the Montreal International Jazz fest, he was also an internationally known and respected performer

We feature Bob Walsh singing “Buzzard Luck”.

The gray jay is intelligent, tough and friendly–quintessentially Canadian, says expert © Chuck Kling

Almost every country around the world has its “national bird”, a symbolic representation of that country.

Almost every country that is, except Canada.

While individual provinces have their provincial bird representatives, the country as a whole does not.

Many people have been lobbying for several years to change this, but recently the Royal Canadian Geographical Society has run a national survey to name a national bird.

The winner is the grey jay Lynn spoke to David Bird, professor emeritus of wildlife biology at Montreal’s McGill University, and asked why this bird should be one of our national symbols.

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