Marc Montgomery
Marc Montgomery
With a passion for anything antique with an engine, and for Canadian and world history, Marc comes with a wealth of media experience. After DJ work at private radio in southern Ontario, and with experience in Canadian Forces radio and tv in Europe, the state broadcaster in Austria (Radio 3), and the CBC in Ottawa and Montreal, he was the host of the immensely popular CBC and RCI show, "The Link". He is now part of the new RCI online team producing stories from and about Canada from coast to coast.
L-R: Marie-Claude, Levon, Lynn, Marc

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The LINK Online, May 3, 4, 5, 2019

Your hosts: Lynn, Levon, Marie-Claude and Marc (video of show at bottom) Could this beluga be a trained spy? It’s a mystery. Norwegian fishermen discovered an unusually friendly lone beluga while out fishing. Beluga are relatively rare in the area, »

International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

World Press Freedom Day

May, 3, this Friday, is the United Nations declared, World Press Freedom Day. The website notes the day is an opportunity to: -celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom; -assess the state of press freedom throughout the world; -defend the »

Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society

Millionaires on the move

In the financial world they’re known as HNWI’s or “high net worth individuals, but we know them as millionaires (or billionaires). Latest reports say about 108,000 millionaires moved last year from one country to another. That’s a substantial increase of »

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Politics, Society

Ontario planning to review/increase some highway speeds

Ontario’s transportation minister has announced the province is in the process of examining speed limits on some of its main highways. Currently the speed limit on highways in Ontario is 100 kilometres per hour. In announcing the proposal on Wednesday »

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

Federal electric vehicle rebate incentive

Starting today a new federal rebate plan kicks in as part of an effort to get more electric vehicles on Canadian roads. The plan originally announced in the budget in March would grant up to $5,000 on the purchase of »

Economy, Health, Society

Doctors and guns: a different view (interview)

(public comments may take up to 24hrs  for approval before appearing) Recently a group of Canadian physicians began a campaign to ban handguns and certain rifles. The group called Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns (CDPG) received a great deal »

Economy, International, Politics

China increases pressure against Canada

In what is seen as China’s increasing pressure over the Canadian detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, China has sentenced a second Canadian to death on drug trafficking charges and begun further trade pressure by delaying delivery of more Canadian »

Politics, Society

Drunk driving law: Charter of Rights challenge (interview)

Case may eventually make it to the Supreme Court of Canada (public commenting is open on all RCI stories at bottom- comments will be shown after examination) The case begins with an elderly woman who went to a liquor store »

Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology

Best banknote for 2018: The winner is…

The votes are in, and Canada’s $10 banknote is tops for 2018. The International Bank Note Society annually asks its members to vote on the best banknote of the year. This year Canada’s first “vertical” note came in as the »

Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics

Cybersecurity: Huawei – backdoor or no backdoor?

Several news agencies today are reporting on a Bloomberg news story about cybersecurity issues from co-called “backdoors” found in  Huawwei equipment used by Vodaphone in Italy. The report says the backdoors were discovered between 2009 and 2011 in home routers »