On St. Patrick’s Day, everyone in Montreal is Irish and this year will be no exception: Montrealers are expected by the hundreds of thousands at the traditional Sunday parade! All year round, the Irish pubs in the city are preparing… »
Highlights / Year: 2019
Canadians Andreescu and Raonic in Indian Wells semis
Canadian tennis players are having a pretty terrific week at the highly-regarded tennis tournament at Indian Wells, California. How good? Two Canadians–Bianca Andreescu, who is 18, and Milos Raonic, who is 28 now, are in the semifinals of their respective… »
New Zealand shooting: Canada’s largest city to hold vigil for victims
Toronto’s mayor sent the image in a tweet early this morning Eastern Time, adding “The Toronto sign in front of City Hall has been dimmed today to mourn the victims of this vicious terror attack in #Christchurch.” Toronto’s famous CN… »
Immigration & Refugees, International
Most Canadians hold positive views about immigrants: survey
Canadians have the highest proportion of people favourable to immigrants when compared with the world’s top migrant destinations, reports the Washington-based Pew Research Centre. The report says 68 per cent of Canadian believe immigrants make their country stronger while 27… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, International, Politics, Society
European Union to begin new travel document requirement
New travel requirements for Europe Canadians are used to fairly easy travel to most countries around the world, especially Europe. Show your passport and that’s about it. Well, for Canadians and some 60 other countries like the U.S., it’s about… »
The Arctic ‘locked-in’ for 3 to 5 C temperature rise, UN report warns
Winter temperatures in the Arctic are set to rise by 3 to 5 C by 2050 even if the world succeeds in cutting emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, according to a new report by the United Nations. These… »
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The LINK Online, Mar. 15,16,17, 2019
Your hosts, Terry, Lynn, Marie-Claude, Marc (Video of show at bottom. Also archived on the Radio Canada Int’l Facebook page) U.N. report on environment: humanity is at a crossroads It’s a dire report that ties climate change and other environmental… »
Group effort seeks to save endangered sage-grouse
The greater sage-grouse is a bird that was once common across Canada’s western prairies but the population has decreased by 80 per cent to fewer than 250 wild birds. So, the Calgary Zoo has enlisted the help of the government’s… »
Anti-Semitic graffitti discovered at Toronto school
Police are hoping video footage will help them track down the people who left a graffiti-laden anti-Semitic trail at a Toronto high school Friday morning. Police were called to Western Technical-Commercial School, north of High Park Friday morning after an… »
Mosque attack leaves Quebec City victims ‘in shock’
The shooting rampages at two mosques in New Zealand is particularly horrifying for survivors of a similar attack that killed six people in Quebec City on January 29, 2017. The New Zealand shooter had written the name of several killers… »
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