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, Indigenous

Alanis Obomsawin mural honours her in Montreal

Alanis Obomsawin, the Abenaki filmmaker from Odanak, Quebec, is honoured with the latest in a series of murals in Montreal, created to honour important contributors to Montreal’s cultural scene. Obomsawin began as a consultant at the National Film Board in »

Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

The Old Farmer’s Almanac: Canadian edition

The Old Farmer’s Almanac was the last almanac standing in 1838, when they added “old” into the name. “Snowy for the whole country” When it began in 1792, there were lots of almanacs with advice and tables for the farmers, »

Arts & Entertainment, International, Society

Joannie Rochette: from figure skating to med school

Joannie Rochette was the darling of the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, when she skated to a Bronze medal only days after her mother died of a heart attack. “nothing will ever beat skating”  Now, she’s fulfilling her »

Indigenous, Society

Rita Joe: new ferry honours Mi’kmaw poet laureate

Rita Joe, the Mi’kmaw poet, was honoured last Friday, in a ceremony on the Halifax waterfront, to officially unveil a new harbour ferry that has been named in her honour. Rita Joe died in  March 2007 at the age of 75, »

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Gina Cody back in Montreal to meet the Mayor

Gina Parveneh Cody is the woman whose name now graces Concordia University’s school of engineering. She made Canadian history, donating $15 million (CAD), creating the first engineering faculty in the country, named after a woman. The Gina Cody school of »

Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

‘Swab the World’ campaign for more ethnic stem cells

‘Swab the World’ is the foundation that Mai Duong has established in the wake of her harrowing experience with leukemia. Now in her 4th year of remission, she will be considered cured next year. But she’s not waiting until to »

Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics

CPTPP trade deal clears Canadian Senate

The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) was passed in Canada’s Senate today, after just a week of review. Bill C-79 will receive royal assent by day’s end, and then it is the last stage before ratification, The CPTPP is the »

International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

Nobel Prize winner now a full professor at Waterloo

Nobel Prize winner Professor Donna Strickland is finally a full professor at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario. Professor Strickland shared the illustrious honour this year for outstanding work in Physics, with Professor Gérard Mourou from France. ‘Oh my God. »

Arts & Entertainment, Health, International, Society

Goop in Vancouver’s Stanley Park this weekend

Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s controversial website, is holding an event in Vancouver this weekend. ‘In Goop Health’ it’s called, and in its first visit to Canada, it’s taking over the Pavillion in Stanley Park on Saturday and Sunday. Based in Los »

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Great Lakes drownings on the increase

The Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project (GLSRP) has tracked 102 drownings in the Great Lakes, so far in 2018. That’s 14 more than the 88 people who drowned last year, according to the group that got organized back in 2010. »