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

Arts & Entertainment, Economy, International, Society

Montreal number 2 for millenials

Montreal is the second-best place in the world for the millenial generation, according to Nestpick. That’s the Berlin-based, apartment search engine, that found Berlin to be number one. If you’re wondering about that coincidence, the group used four criteria to »

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Toronto house sales drop 35 per cent

Toronto‘s sizzling real estate market appears to be cooling. According to the Toronto Real Estate Board, selling prices dropped more than 12 per cent from the historic highs they reached in 2017. And year over year in February, sales in the »

Indigenous, Politics, Society

MMIWG Inquiry requests two year extension

MMIWG, the acronym for the inquiry into the estimated 1,181 missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada is underway. The inquiry is stopping into community after community in an effort to understand why Indigenous women are statistically five »

Arts & Entertainment, International, Society

Bill Cosby’s Canadian accuser credible?

Bill Cosby‘s Canadian accuser, Andrea Constand, is the only one of the many accusers of the former comedy superstar, for whom the statute of limitations was not a barrier to justice in the United States. Now through a series of twists »

Arts & Entertainment, International, Society

‘Come From Away’ being adapted for film

‘Come From Away’ the Tony-award winning play that was a sensation on Broadway in New York City, is in the process of being adapted to a film format. The musical, written by the husband and wife team of Irene Sankoff and »

International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

BlackBerry suing Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp

BlackBerry Ltd., the Waterloo, Ontario-based company, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. The 117-page suit was filed today in U.S. Federal Court in Los Angeles. “We have a strong claim that Facebook has infringed on our »

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‘The Shape of Water’ a big win for Toronto

The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s tour de force that was shot in Toronto, won best picture Sunday evening at the 90th annual Academy Awards. As the much-admired director received the golden Oscar statuette he said, “Growing up in Mexico as »

Health, International, Politics, Society

FCKD UP drink thought responsible for 14 year-old’s death.

FCKD UP is the name of the energy drink that is said to have left 14 year-old Athena Gervais unable to save herself. The girl was with a group of friends last week drinking the concoction when she apparently was left »

International, Politics, Society

USS Little Rock source of local noise complaints

USS Little Rock, the American Navy war ship that became stranded in Montreal at Christmas, may have worn out its welcome. Local residents in the condo dwellings nearby, are fed up with the noise of the generators necessary to keep »

Economy, International, Politics

Steel, aluminium tariffs in U.S. rattling Canadian industry

Steel tariffs are the latest threat from American President, Donald Trump. A proposed 25 per cent tariff on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium is a major concern to Canadian producers. It is still not clear if Canada is »