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

Immigration & Refugees, Society

UNICEF Canada educating refugee children in Jordan

UNICEF Canada is grateful for the generosity of Canadians and the Canadian government in supporting their work around the world, but particularly for the refugees out of Syria. Now five million Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries Rob Jenkins is the »

Society

World Dwarf Games underway in Guelph, Ontario

The World Dwarf Games are happening in the city of Guelph, about 90 kilometres northwest of Toronto. This is the seventh edition of the games that welcome all “short-statured athletes with dwarfism from all over the world, from 4-99 years »

Arts & Entertainment, International, Society

Drake takes Toronto with new store and great show

Drake, the Toronto singer and rapper, who’s become a global sensation, wowed the hometown crowd last night at his eighth annual OVOFest. The master of the acronym, OVO, stands for “October’s Very Own”, referring to Aubrey Drake Graham’s birthday on »

Arts & Entertainment, International, Society

Bridge Championships a draw for the many committed players

Bridge, the card game, brought more than 5,000 people to Toronto last week for the North American Bridge Championships. Montreal-based Steve Merovitz, who teaches the game, was there. He and his wife, Ellen Moss, took part in the events, at »

Arts & Entertainment, Society

Jack Rabinovitch, founder of the Giller Prize, dies

Jack Rabinovitch, a powerful patron of the arts in Canada who established the Giller Prize for literature, died yesterday in Toronto. He was 87. Now known as the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the lucrative award for best fiction in Canada, in long »

Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society

Muslims in Quebec City get their cemetery

Muslims in Quebec City finally have something to celebrate. They now have a cemetery of their own. Quebec City mayor Regis Labeaume points at a map as he announces the establishment of a Muslim cemetery, in Quebec City on Friday, »

Environment & Animal Life, Health, Immigration & Refugees, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

The LINK Online Sun. Aug 6, 2017

Featuring Lynn Desjardins, Carmel Kilkenny and Levon Sevunts (video of show at the bottom) Today on The Link Deadly heat for Southeast Asia A new study released this week forcasts more deadly heat for southeast Asia. Published in the journal, »

Immigration & Refugees, Society

Census reveals social fabric of Canada changing

The 2016 Census results released this week, on ‘Families, households and marital status’, had many Canadians talking about some of the interesting findings. Love and languages More Canadians are living alone and without children in the home, in part due »

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Caribbean Carnival takes over Toronto

Caribana is one of a host of weekend events that will bring closures, detours and traffic congestion to a number of roads in and around Toronto. © CBC The Toronto Caribbean Carnival will bring its vibrant rhythms and colours to the »

Economy, Politics

Caroline Mulroney Lapham entering politics

Caroline Mulroney Lapham, the daughter of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, made it official yesterday, she is running for the provincial Progressive Conservative Party in the upcoming Ontario election. Caroline Mulroney, co-founder of The Shoebox Project, photographed in Ottawa, alongside »