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

Environment & Animal Life, Society

Flooding emergency in Brantford, Ontario

Flooding on the Grand River near the city of Brantford, Ontario was the reason for an emergency evacuation today. Mayor Chris Friel declared the state of emergency this morning and is imploring people to leave their homes, and to stay »

Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International

India’s complicated response to Trudeau visit

India is the new economic darling internationally and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on his first official visit to improve the bilateral relationship. Professor Anita Singh is a Research Fellow with the Centre for the Study of Security and Development at Dalhousie »

Arts & Entertainment, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

Alto’s Odyssey, sequel, launching tomorrow

Alto’s Odyssey is the video game sequel to the hit, Alto’s Adventure, that was released in Canada three years ago. “It wasn’t until six months later we could reflect and realize we had something that wasn’t showing any signs of stopping” »

Environment & Animal Life, Society

Rain and flooding causing problems in southeastern Canada

Heavy rain and mild temperatures are causing problems in many regions of southern Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick today. Environment Canada issued severe weather warnings, cautioning that “significant” rainfall is expected on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Greater Toronto Area, and »

Immigration & Refugees, International, Society

Black History Month: time for it to go?

Black History Month may have outlived its usefulness according to Bee Quammie, a young writer, speaker and producer in Toronto. At the beginning of February in 2017, Quammie aired her views on the CBC’s National news broadcast, talking about why it »

Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society

Trudeau family visiting India

The Trudeau family are repeating history in a visit to India. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first visit was as a boy, with his father Pierre Trudeau. “About 35 years ago, when I was 11 years, I came to India on »

International, Society

Virtue and Moir making history in skating

Virtue and Moir, the ice skating duo that have transfixed audiences and fans alike, are skating in a final chapter of their amazing career together. What began 20 years ago in London, Ontario, when the pair were eight and ten, »

Arts & Entertainment, International, Society

Justin Bieber exhibit opens in hometown Stratford, Ontario

Justin Bieber started busking as a boy, guitar in hand, on the steps of Stratford‘s Avon theatre. He was not even 10 years of age, but his goal was to raise enough money to take his mom to Disney World. “We »

Sports

Pond hockey tournament in P.E.I. this weekend

Pond hockey will get the many of the armchair athletes out of the house this weekend in Prince Edward Island. While others may stay in to watch the events at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, firefighters and others volunteers will »

Uncategorized

Potatoes to pot in Saskatchewan facility

Spudco was the name of the huge facility the Saskatchewan government tried to get going in the prairie province. It spent millions of dollars trying to establish a pototo industry before eventually giving up. Now, cannabis plants will fill the »