The trans mountain pipeline (TMX) project involves the twinning of a decades old pipeline from the oil centre of Edmonton Alberta, over the Rocky mountains to a Pacific Ocean port terminal near Vancouver. The new pipeline would triple existing pipeline… »
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.
Federal apology demanded for actions in Quebec 50 years ago.
Today the separatist Bloc Quebecois will table a motion in Parliament seeking to have the government apologize to Quebec for having invoked the War Measures Act in 1970 in the mainly French-speaking province. The Act, invoked for the first and… »
Economy, Indigenous, Politics, Society
Indigenous rights: A new current in the Nova Scotia lobster dispute
Local First Nation says Sipekne’katik did not consult them before launching disputed fishery The ongoing dispute over Indigenous fishing rights in Nova Scotia has seen a new player emerge to add to the troubled waters. This time however, it might… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life
Cleanup ocean plastic trash- Sunglasses to Hallowe’en display
A modern world without plastics seems impossible, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do a much better job of recycling or making sure they don’t become harmful in the environment. Many have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, perhaps… »
Bank of Canada: long term low rate
It was not unexpected but at the regular Bank of Canada rate announcement bank Governor Tiff Macklem said the central bank would hold its current low 0.25 per cent rate, and would not go into negative territory. At the press… »
COVID causing major financial stress for Canadians: surveys
Many financial analysts in Canada, and indeed worldwide, have indicated that an economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, will take a long time, certainly many more months, and possibly a matter of years. A national poll released just ahead of… »
The N-word controversy and freedom of speech hits academia
In these ultra sensitive times a controversy has blown up in academia about freedom of speech, teaching necessities, derogatory language. and some differences in meaning between French and English of the N-word. At the University of Ottawa, a part-time professor… »
COVID now takes down a major 2021 sport event
After having caused the cancellation of almost every major public and sporting event this year, most have been rescheduled for sometime next year. Now however, the coronavirus has resulted in one of the country’s major sporting events, the Canada Summer… »
Canada History: Oct. 27, 1917: Victoria Cross-Against impossible odds
Everyone seems to know the top WWI ace, Manfred von Richtofen. Many Canadians know the 3rd highest scoring ace, Billy Bishop, perhaps through a popular theatrical piece about the amazing flyer of several years ago, and perhaps because of the… »
Huge merger in Canada, latest of several in oil/gas industry
A deal announced this weekend between two of the biggest oil companies in Canada will create the third largest oil and gas producer in the country and second largest refiner. The merger between Canadian rivals Cenovus Energy and Husky Energy… »
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