It was a National Hockey League game between the leading Montreal Canadiens, and the struggling New York Rangers. A few minutes into the first period, Canadiens goalie Jacques Plante was hit in face with a hard backhand from the Rangers… »
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, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Major food company going non-GMO
The Danone yogurt company of France, including it’s US subsidiary Dannon, announced it is moving toward reducing and eliminating genetically modified ingredients in its products in a three year programme. About the same time Dannon released its first non-GMO products … »
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Diabolical medieval witchcraft book in Canada
The fascinating story of Tinctor’s “foul treatise” from 1460 in Flanders and Burgundian France, and how it ended up in Canada Then student Rob Desjardins (PhD) discovered the hidden significance of the book in 2005 along with his supervisor at the… »
Economy, International, Politics
Anti-free trade sentiment increases
Even before the debate over the Canada- EU free trade deal (CETA), Canada’s largest private sector trade union had come out strongly against another such deal. Unifor (Union for Canada) represents some 310,000 workers in Canada. It has been campaigning… »
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The LINK Online, Sun., Oct. 30, 2016
Your hosts Lynn, Marc A net zero home might have solar panels on the roof to power a high-efficiency heating system. Extra insulation retains the heat, reducing power consumption. © submitted to CBC by Vince Sharpe The climate is changing, and… »
(book) Capturing Hill 70-Major First World War victory forgotten.
In 1917, a normally unimpressive bump in the landscape in northern France near the then coal mining centre of Lens was known to the Allies as Hill 70. It became however a vicious battle for the Canadian troops assigned to… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Society
Bottled smoke, and the water of life.
It was so wild, so big, and so difficult to control, that firefighters named it “the beast”. Fort McMurray in northern Alberta made world headlines this year when a giant fire destroyed a good portion of the town, and vast… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Politics, Society
Controversial forest clearcutting in Nova Scotia
Approvals and policies for clearcutting in the east coast maritime province of Nova Scotia have been raising the ire of residents and environmental groups. A recent decision by the provinces Natural Resources Minister, Lloyd Hines, will allow clearcutting of almost… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology
Aliens are there and they’re signaling….uh maybe
Two scientists at Laval University in the province of Quebec say they’ve detected signals from deep space that are “probably from aliens” EF Borra and E Trottier had their finding published in the journal Publications Astronomical Society of the Pacific… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Politics, Society
CETA trade- on again, off again, now back on?
Headlines have been saying the huge CETA trade deal between the European Union and Canada is now back on after late night negotiations in Belgium with the dissenting region of Wallonia. Bernard M Wolf, Professor Emeritus, York University,Toronto © Schulich School… »
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