The intermittent fasting diet or 5:2 diet, which asks people to fast for two days and eat whatever they want for five, is gaining popularity in Canada, but dietitians are not as impressed as people who want to lose weight.… »
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.
Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
Not all Canadians ‘fascinated with pandas’, CBC readers say
They were greeted with much fanfare on their arrival in Toronto on Monday, but not everybody is pleased with the two giant Chinese pandas loaned to Canada for the next ten years. CBC readers sent dozens and dozens of comments… »
Drug smuggling increasingly popular among truckers bound to Canada from Mexico
Border agents have been finding more and more cocaine hidden in fruits and vegetables in trucks coming from Mexico. In recent years, at least a dozen truckers from the Greater Toronto Area have been charged with smuggling drugs into Canada.… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Sustainability at McGill University starts from the ground up
McGill University’s efforts to implement sustainability programs on campus have been decades in the making and are gaining impetus. “There have been dozens of individuals who have been taking the cause forward, as well as high level commitments”, says Lilith… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
Giant Chinese pandas touch down in Toronto
Female panda Er Shun eats bamboo at the Panda House at the Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing, China earlier this year. The Toronto Zoo began playing host to Er Shun and male Da Mao on Monday, just over a year were… »
Scammers in B.C. try to sell gold claiming it belonged to Ossama bin Laden
Gold buyers beware! A group of scammers in Kamloops, British Columbia, is trying to sell fake gold chains, claiming they belonged to Osama bin Laden. Police in B.C.’s Interior have issued a public warning saying at least three people are… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Couple finds 3 bear cubs near Fredericton, New Brunswick
A New Brunswick couple was heading home to Springfield, outside Fredericton, last Thursady, when they found three bear cubs near the highway. Zen Fedory and his girlfriend Krissy Green said they noticed something moving in the snowbank. “And it’s just… »
Surplus of dentists brings changes to the profession in Canada
A recent report on the practice of dentistry suggests that “the average dentist may be closer to the edge of a [cliff] than the average Canadian.” According to the “doom and gloom” study done by consultants R.K. House and Associates… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology
Inuit to study polar bear denning habits in Nunavut
A group of Inuit in Clyde River, Nunavut, has decided to research denning habits on the north and east side of Baffin Island in Nunavut. They want to understand how many cubs are born in the dens. The head of… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
Wild bird loses leg in golf accident, gets prosthetic limb
Veterinarian Ken MacQuisten said this sandhill crane is ‘unusually tame for a wild bird.’ © cbc.ca Veterinarian Ken MacQuisten said this sandhill crane is ‘unusually tame for a wild bird.’ A sandhill crane was fitted with a prosthesis after it lost… »
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