Well not quite, but not only is Canadian technology is playing a vital role in a new space mission, but the unique effort is to send a probe into space and then have it come back. The mission and spacecraft… »
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.
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
The belugas of St Lawrence: serious decline
This week the federal government officially recognized the continuing decline in numbers of the white whales of the St Lawrence estuary by changing their status. Previously labelled as “threatened” the beluga are now listed in the more worrisome category of… »
Ontario schoolchildren: literacy improving, math declining.
A new survey in Canada’s most populous province shows literacy skills, reading, writing, and comprehension, among children in Canadian schools are improving. However, elementary school results show almost half of students in Grade 6 (aged 11-12) failed to achieve the… »
International, Politics, Society
Canadian aircraft still fighting Daesh
Under Canada’s previous Conservative government, six CF-18 fighter jets had joined the US-led coalition bombing mission in 2014 against the terrorists in Iraq and Syria. In February of this year, a few months after being elected, the federal Liberal government… »
International, Politics, Society
Policy shift: ISIS or ISIL no longer
In an apparent policy shift, Canadian government agencies will no longer refer to a well-known terrorist group as ISIS, or ISIL (Islamic state of Iraq and Syria, or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant). The preamble to a federal… »
International, Politics, Society
A major WWI battle: decades forgotten, but no longer
It was the middle of summer 1917 and for the first time a Canadian was entirely in charge of Canadian troops in the First World War. A few months earlier, Canadian Gen. Arthur Currie, had been the successful planner of… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
New stamps feature Canadian birds
Even as the debate goes on to determine a national bird as a symbol of Canada ( RCI-Aug 31,2016), Canada Post has produced the first in a new series of stamps to showcase our avian residents. While Canada itself doesn’t yet… »
Economy, International, Society
Toronto Canada, 3rd best city in the world.
Name world cities, and certainly names like London, Paris, New York come to mind, but perhaps not so much Toronto. And yet for several years in international rankings, Toronto has been declared one of the world’s best cities in which… »
Major case: Canada’s public health care system on trial
Dr. Brian Day, Medical Director of the Cambie Surgery Centre, is challenging B.C.’s ban on the purchase of private insurance for medically necessary services already covered by the public system. © Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press) It is a lawsuit that has… »
Arts & Entertainment, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
History: Television begins in Canada, Sept.06, 1952
The new technology of television had been amazing visitors to the annual Canadian Nation Exhibition in Toronto since before the Second World War. Indeed there had been some brief experiments in actual broadcast television as far back as 1932 based… »
The world in pictures
Canada in pictures
