Your hosts: Lynn, Levon, Marie-Claude, Marc (video of show at bottom) Canadian naval ship heads home after six-month tour in Mediterranean and North Atlantic Spanish Frigate Cristobal Colon, French Naval Ship Latouche-Tréville and Turkish Naval Ship Oruceis sail ahead of… »
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.
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
Huge money-laundering operation in British Columbia alleged
The Attorney-General in the west coast province of British Columbia is expressing surprise and deep concern about reports indicating the province is the scene for astronomical amounts of money laundering. Last year a special report called “Dirty Money” commissioned by… »
Gender equality in Canada’s federal government- a goal, not a priority
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has long stated his intention to create gender equality in his cabinet. A new national poll suggests Canadians agree with the idea generally, but that it should not be a priority. The poll comes shortly after… »
Canada working toward national dementia strategy
It’s a bit of scary statistic: one in five baby boomers will likely develop dementia. A new report looks at how to improve the lives of those living with dementia and that of their caregivers. One of the authors is… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Suspects in honour killing to be extradited
A beautiful young woman, and handsome young man were deeply in love. It was however a love and marriage that crossed class lines within the Indian community, and deeply offended relatives in Canada. Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu of Maple Ridge British… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
ISIS terrorist claims he’s Canadian
A man who is now believed to be the masked man featured in several threatening and horrific ISIS propaganda videos, says he comes from Canada. Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed was captured by Kurdish forces during a gun battle in Syria against… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Radio Canada International: Spectres of Shortwave
It started out as an art project, but circumstances changed and it became an artistically inspired documentary look at the former shortwave service. It deals in part with the history of the shortwave transmission site, its massive antenna array, and… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Health, Politics, Society
Concerns about civil rights over new drunk driving law
New drunk driving laws have come into effect in Canada, and have caused quite a stir in the legal community not the least of which involves civil rights issues Micheal Engel (BA, LLB) has a legal practice in Toronto specialising… »
International, Politics, Society
China invokes death sentence for a Canadian
A Canadian in jail in China on drug charges has now been sentenced to death. Already in jail on drug trafficking charges, 36-year-old Robert Schellenberg was retried this week and had is original 15 year sentenced increased to the death… »
Former RCI transmitter site – slow transformation
The former RCI transmitter site near Sackville New Brunswick, sold to a First Nations group, is now in the process of being absorbed into native reserve land and some as yet undetermined use. During the Second World War as Canada… »
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