Carmel Kilkenny
Carmel Kilkenny
Carmel Kilkenny grew up in Toronto as it was in the early stages of becoming the "most multi-cultural city" in the world. A year living in Paris, France provided the time and opportunity to study the language, and experience the culture. It also provided a base to visit other European destinations. Now Carmel makes her home in Montreal, Quebec. Following a degree in Communication Studies and Journalism, Carmel anchored Quebec’s late-night TV newscast, worked in radio, locally and on RCI’s short-waves, and spent some time sharing daily forecasts on a network of radio stations across Canada as a weather specialist. These days, as a freelance writer-broadcaster, she is lending her voice and writing skills to a number of projects and continuing to share great Canadian stories on Radio Canada International’s website. RCI journalist Carmel Kilkenny dies after short illness

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics

Oil hits $70 USD: first time since 2014

Oil rose over the $70 USD threshold for the first time since the price was falling in 2014. The price of the North American oil benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, rose 85 cents today, as a result of global tensions that »

Arts & Entertainment, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society

Philip Harrison celebrates with a little help from his friends

Philip Harrison left England and first arrived in Canada in the summer of 1967, in Montreal, when all the world was coming to visit Expo’ 67. The experience left an impression on him, and eventually, in 1976 he emigrated. He »

Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society

Montreal real estate market heating up

Montreal real estate is now booming, in the wake of regulations that have slowed the formerly sizzling real estate markets in Toronto and Vancouver. According to the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), monthly home sales were down 22,7 per cent »

Economy, International, Politics, Society

Toyota investing $1.4 billion in southern Ontario

Toyota employees in southern Ontario will be keeping their jobs for the foreseeable future. The Japanese-based car maker announced a $1.4 billion dollar investment in its two plants, in Woodstock and Cambridge, Ontario. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario’s Premier, »

Economy, International, Society

Tulip Festival: ready to bloom in Ottawa

Tulips will be blooming in all their glory in Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, beginning next week. The annual Canadian Tulip Festival begins Friday May 11, 2018, and the weather is cooperating, now. Following a very late spring in eastern Canada, »

Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

TSX and Montreal exchange shut down Friday afternoon

The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and the Montreal Exchange shut down this afternoon citing “internal technical” problems. Trading was halted in all stocks, options and derivatives on the TMX’s markets. Along with the Toronto and Montreal exchanges, the the TSX Venture Exchange and »

Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology

NAFTA talks keep Chrystia Freeland in Washington

NAFTA talks are getting down to the wire and the developments this week kept Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Chrystia Freeland, in Washington, for a fourth day of face to face negotiations. The North American Free Trade Agreement, signed by Canada, »

Health, International, Society

Humboldt benefit concert tonight in Saskatoon

Humboldt is the small city in Saskatchewan that is still grieving the loss and injury of so many of its members following the bus crash on April 6th. The bus was carrying the Broncos’, the local hockey team in the Saskatchewan Junior »

Health, International, Politics

Syrian air strikes raise the stakes for the west

Syrian air strikes early Saturday morning were not a surprise to Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau. “We were apprised in advance of the operation,” Trudeau told reporters at the end of his three-day visit to Peru, that included the 8th Summit of »

Economy, Health, International

Cuba’s Canadian embassy post “unaccompanied” now

Cuba’s Canadian embassy in Havana, is now officially an ‘unaccompanied post’, Global Affairs Canada announced today. This follows the mysterious illnesses and ailments that Canadian and American delegations complained of, in the fall of  2017. “A new type of a »