Decades ago scientists sounded the alarm that a large hole in the Earth’s ozone layer had formed over Antarctica. The ozone layer protects the Earth, and our skin and eyes, by absorbing much of the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation. NASA… »
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, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Kilts-winter-ice skating: Scottish-Canadians celebrate winter and heritage
The Great Canadian Kilt Skate 2018 There’s no doubt that Scots are a bonnie brae lot. Add the Canadian experience and you increase that hardiness dramatically. That’s shown by the thousands who turn out across Canada for the annual “Great… »
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The LINK Online, Jan. 7, 2018
Your hosts, Lynn, Marie-Claude, Levon, and Marc (video of show at bottom) Breast cancer is the leading type of cancer and cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide. Nearly 1.4 million new cases are diagnosed each year. To a much… »
Indigenous group unhappy with video game
The internationally popular strategy video game series “Civilization” published by Take Two Interactive Software (owner of 2K Games) is about to release Sid Meier’s latest version called “Civilization VI: Rise and Fall”. This latest version involves the Cree aboriginals under… »
Minimum wage increase: fallout continues, controversy grows
Workers say businesses are penalising them for the minimum wage increase Across Canada, there are vast number of full time employees who are earning the “minimum wage” as set by provincial legislations. The amount varies from province to province and… »
International, Politics, Society
Canadian fighters finish Romanian mission
Not a “show of force”, a Canadian contingent of jet fighters was more a demonstration of NATO co-operation as well as being visible response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. The mission by Canadian planes and personnel, which is now ended, involved… »
Economy, Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Booze warning label experiment abruptly ends
Industry pushes back against warning labels The idea was to test the effects of warning labels on the habits of excessive alcohol consumption. The experiment, a Canadian first, and in some senses a world first, was to have large bright… »
Arts & Entertainment, Health, Society
Beer Yoga: combining spirit with the spiritual
Beer drinking and yoga-a marriage of two popular activities Yoga is supposed to relax the mind and spirit, and I guess, enlighten, to some extent. There is now a fad for “goat yoga”, “cat yoga” and “hot yoga” amongst others.… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology
A new weapon against breast cancer: virus
There is no doubt that breast cancer is a potentially deadly disease. It is estimated that 26,300 women and 230 men in Canada will have been diagnosed with breast cancer and almost 5000 women and 43 men will have died… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Global warming, drier world
More drought, more wildfires coming with global warming The news stories of severe and unusual drought and of massive wildfires around the world have been increasing in recent years. Canada, Australia, Greece, South Africa, the U.S southwest and California, and… »
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