A Canadian study shows women using certain hygiene products run three times the risk of vaginal infections. The study by researchers at the University of Guelph in Ontario was published in the journal BioMed Central Women’s Health under the title… »
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.
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
Canada’s pipeline battle follows Prime Minister to London
Canada is embroiled in an increasingly bitter battle over an oil pipeline. The Trans Mountain pipeline would see the American headquartered company, Kinder Morgan, build a pipeline from the Alberta oil-sands across the Rocky Mountains, through British Columbia to the… »
Internet, Science & Technology
The end of passwords: Coming soon to a device near you
You have a password for your computer, your phone, your email, your social media sites, forum sites, etc etc. It gets confusing and you forget them. Or, you use the same one for almost everything, which is a bad move.… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Judge rules man not a terrorist, police insist he’s a threat
In 2017, a British Columbia resident, Othman Ayed Hamdan, was acquitted by a judge on charges of terrorism. However, the police still insist he’s a threat radicalized by Daesh (ISIS) and who was advocating for “lone wolf” style attacks in… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
Canadian developed technology moving toward zero waste in smart phones
Electronics manufacturers are constantly exhorting people to buy new model mobile phones, and age also takes its toll on batteries, forcing people to buy new. As for old phones, these are to some extent taken apart manually to get at… »
World and Olympic figure skating star retires
One of the top male figure skaters in the world has announced his retirement. Canadian Patrick Chan, who won gold as part of the team event at the recent Pyeongchang Olympics, said he’s retiring from competition after a decade at… »
Inuit want exemption from registry of guns used for hunting
The Inuit of northern Quebec are once again saying they should be exempt from Quebec’s newly implemented long gun registry, that is hunting rifles and shotguns. They say they have distinct hunting rights under the James Bay and Northern Quebec… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life
Winter road salt slowly killing a lake.
You wouldn’t know to look at the beautiful lake which borders the city of Sudbury in northern Ontario, but the lake is in crisis. The small city of over 160,000 is billed as the “city of lakes” but gets much… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology
And then there were three: mega bio-chem merger
Multi-billion dollar Bayer takeover of Monsanto conditionally approved In recent years, multinational chemical and bio-tech companies have engaged in mega mergers. Where once there were eight major entities in the worldwide seed, chemical and development fields, Dow and Dupont merged,… »
Environment & Animal Life, International
Amazing discovery under high Arctic ice
During a recent research study in the high Arctic, a very surprising and very unexpected discovery was made on Devon Island. Deep below the huge ice cap, they found two large lakes. What is more unusual, the lakes are salty.… »
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