Mammoths, mastodons, straight-tusked elephants, and living species; an international team of scientists have established the most complete genomic history of elephants. They’re produced complete genomes of 14 species, from long extinct, to living elephant species. Evolutionary geneticist Hendrik Poinar (PhD)… »
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.
Canadian politician fights back against sex misconduct claims
The central province of Ontario is Canada’s second largest at over a million square kilometre. It is however the most populous and governing Ontario is serious business. An election is coming up in June in the province in which the… »
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Canadians join lawsuits against Apple
A class action lawsuit was filed in Ontario Superior Court against Apple on Friday February 23. The Ontario-based legal action joins over 40 other lawsuits against the high-tech giant. It alleges that the company deliberately slowed the functioning of several… »
Why do we watch sports?
The Olympics are almost at an end, and millions of people will have been watching on TVs around the world, in addition to those who made the effort to actually travel to the event. Playing sports is one thing, but… »
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Prime Minister Trudeau’s India trip, not playing so well
Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau and his family are on a government sponsored trip to India. He was already facing some criticism back-home for the very light business side of the trip which has been seen by many as a… »
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The LINK Online, Feb 22-23-24, 2018
Your hosts today, Lynn, Terry, Marie-Claude, and Marc (Video of show at bottom starts @ 1.15) Whose history is right? There are various sides in a debate, then there are the facts. The indigenous Mi”kmaq of Nova Scotia have accused… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Public broadcaster music library closing, CDs to be digitised, destroyed
Canada’s public broadcaster CBC (English) and Radio-Canada (French) is going through massive changes. Update As mentioned in its news release of December 12, 2017, Radio-Canada is taking the necessary steps to ensure the long-term preservation of its collections of vinyl… »
Climate change; winter skating going, going..
For decades Canadian dads have made backyard skating rinks for the kids every winter. They would usually last throughout the season. In recent years as global warming has changed the climate, making a rink became more difficult and the season… »
Canada: The middle class dream shrinking rapidly
After a long working life, most people hope to have an easy and enjoyable retirement. That was one of the basic concepts of the “middle class dream”. That may have been more possible in the past but a new survey… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Not all lungs are created equal, and that may lead to problems
In turns out that lungs are not as simple as what TV commercials and textbooks would have us believe. New research has shown that about a quarter of the population has variations that may result in breathing problems later in… »
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