Digital devices and work/life balance Who hasn’t checked their work related emails from home? Who hasn’t done some work-related research or other web-connected “off-duty” work? The federal government, as part of an eventual new labour code is now considering creation… »
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.
Internet, Science & Technology
School teacher shortage in Canada
This is the month when literally millions of students head back to schools across Canada after the summer holidays. Other than universities, in many locations however there are elementary and high-school teacher shortages. Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, and Nunavut Territory… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous
Some hope at last for Arctic port of Churchill, Manitoba
Rail line to be revived. It’s a small community on the shore of Hudson Bay, currently with a population of perhaps 1,000 souls. Washed out in 2017, the town has been without rail access as the owners and government argue… »
The tragedy of Swissair 111 – 20 years later
Mystery, conspiracies, emotions endure Everything seemed so normal on the evening of September 2, 1998 at the JFK International airport in New York. Regular flyers on the New York to Geneva flight were relaxed and maybe bored, first time passengers… »
Hooray for (N American) Football… but whose?
The US and Canadian games are different, so which do Canadians prefer Lacrosse is the official Canadian summer sport, but most Canadians might be surprised to learn that. Soccer, perhaps “the” world sport is very slowly gaining popularity, but has… »
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The LINK Online Aug 31-Sept 2, 2018
Your hosts, Lynn, Carmel, Leo, and Marc Rohingya refugee situation- NGO Dominique Godbout is the Humanitarian Programme Officer-Asia for the non-governmental organisation, Development and Peace-Caritas, based in Montreal. She visits the show live via skype to talk about their recent… »
Canadian province sues drug companies over opioids
The west coast province of British Columbia has seen a particularly high toll in deaths from opioid overdoses., over 1,400 alone last year Canada as whole recorded approximately 4,000 opioid related drug deaths. In a first in Canada, British Columbia… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
Major setback for pipeline project
Court rules original approval deeply flawed. Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal had dealt a major blow to the Trans Mountain Pipeline project. Long opposed by several Indigenous groups and environmentalists, the company had planned to build a second pipeline to… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life
Drought: deep concern for western Canada ranchers, farmers
Cattle, ranching, and the cowboy lifestyle are a large part of the traditions in Canada’s western prairie province of Alberta. The province is the world’s sixth largest exporter of beef. But a long and withering drought is causing great concern… »
Back to school shopping: Costs increasing every year
Latest figures show a doubling in expense In 2016, surveys showed that sending a child to school cost parents about $450 for each child. Figures for 2017 showed that amount had almost doubled to about $880. The 2017 survey was… »
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