Vancouver police should indentify and question Glee star Cory Monteith’s drug dealer, says Toronto defence lawyer Robb MacDonald. Monteith, 31, was found dead by staff at the Fairmont Pacific Rim, in Vancouver, on Saturday afternoon. On Tuesday, the B.C. Coroners service confirmed he died… »
Gilda Salomone
Gilda Salomone is a multilingual broadcast journalist and web journalist born in Brazil. She has extensive experience as host, producer, columnist and researcher, in radio and television.Gilda joined Radio Canada International in 2006 and hosted and produced information programmes on a wide variety of topics, in the English, French and Brazilian Sections.
She is a regular contributor to domestic French radio service Radio-Canada and can be heard on the flagship show Medium Large.
On television, Gilda has worked for CJNT-Metro 14, a multicultural TV broadcaster, Radio-Canada and TV5.
Gilda speaks English, French, Portuguese and Spanish fluently.
Toronto cop posed for cameras as victim of flood
It was supposed to be a joke, but Toronto police were not amused by the behavior of an employee. During a record rainfall on July 8, as stranded passengers waited for rescue on a flooded GO Train, a police officer… »
Canada’s parks development gets mixed review from environmental group
While Canada should be praised for creating new parks, it should also be criticized for ’inappropriate’ development that poses serious risk to park ecosystems, says environmental group Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) in its annual report. “Funding cuts and… »
New ministers in Harper government supplied with list of ‘enemies’ to avoid
Besides being saluted by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, each new minister sworn in after Monday’s cabinet shuffle also received a ‘transition binder’ which included a list of government’s enemies to be avoided, a leaked e-mail suggests. The email, obtained by… »
Paleontologists need help from Albertans to discover new fossils unearthed by floods
Last month’s floods in Alberta caused a lot of damage. But if there a silver lining to the tragedy, it’s that the recently exposed rocks on riverbanks could increase the chances of finding dinosaur fossils. “Southern Alberta is definitely one… »
Irish boy brings bottle tossed in the ocean 8 years ago back to Quebec
A ten-year-old boy who found a bottle on the shore near his home in Ireland is ivisiting Quebec to meet the girls who tossed it in the ocean more than eight years ago. Oisín Millea found the bottle last October,… »
Don’t clamp baby’s umbilical cord too early, McMaster expert
Delaying umbilical cord clamping for 3-5 minutes is better for babies, a new report suggests. The Cochrane study, a meta-analysis of 15 trials with 3,911 women, says delaying cord clamping for as long as three minutes increases blood volume, and… »
Arts & Entertainment, Environment & Animal Life
Winnipeg artists want to ‘creatively connect’ with beluga whales through music
Two Winnipeg artists have created an underwater sound system that plays music to beluga whales in northern Manitoba. Laura Magnusson and Kaoru Ryan Klatt have already started their summer concerts for the thousands of mammals swimming in the western edge… »
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The Link Online #54
This week, with regulars Wojtek and Lynn on vacation, I’m joined by Gilda Salomone and Carmel Kilkenny.. A massive wildland fire in British Columbia in the Okanagan in 2003. A new report says around the world warming climate will mean… »
Young Canadians showcase trade skills at international competition
Young Canadians did well competing against the best of the world at the 2013 WorldSkills Competition, in Leipzig, Germany, in July. Albertan Michael Scheideman, 21, of Wembley, took home the Gold medal in the Heating and Refrigeration category, while15 other… »
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