In its day, and even before completion, the Victoria Bridge in Montreal was being hailed as an engineering marvel. At some 3 kilometres long, it was also the longest railway bridge in the world. Opened officially on this day, August… »
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, International
Puffins starve: More climate change?
They are a quite distinctive seabird. Some 95 percent of Atlantic puffins breed around Newfoundland and Labrador, and indeed are that province’s official bird. They do however have colonies all around Canada’s maritime provinces and in parts of the northeastern… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Human laziness leading to high death toll of bears
In Revelstoke, B.C., nine bears killed over garbage this week alone A conservation officer in British Columbia spoke out in anger this week over the need to kill “habituated” bears These are bears that have become used to entering residential… »
Economy, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
A world competition- with serious overtones- comes to Canada
The Olympics are over, but there is another kind of Olympic-like international competition going on right now here in Canada. It’s a friendly competition, but one with a much more serious purpose, in fact life and death. It too requires… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
The search for Terror continues (HMS Terror that is)
It was and remains one of the longest maritime mysteries ever. At the end of this month Canada will continue the search to solve another part of that mystery. What happened to the 1845 Franklin expedition’s ships and crew in… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
A world’s first? Challenging the North Atlantic-autonomously
It has been years of work for a variety of engineering and computer science students at the University of British Columbia. They are now just a day away from the final phase of all that work and perhaps accomplishing something… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
International group of mayors unite against Great Lakes decision
Earlier this year a decision was made in the U.S, to allow a community to withdraw its municipal water from Lake Michigan, even though it was outside the Great Lakes water basin. A coalition of some 100 mayors and local… »
Economy, International, Society
Vancouver housing shortage now affecting students
Many news stories have covered the skyrocketing prices of housing in and around the western port city of Vancouver. With the fall school season just around the corner, some 6,000 students at Vancouver’s University of British Columbia are still waiting… »
History: August 22, 1914: War Measures Act
At the start of First World War, the Canadian Government voted in an “Act to confer certain powers upon the Governor-in-Council in the event of war, invasion, or insurrection, real or apprehended”. The proposal came in effect on August 22,… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
Corporate water bottling coming under increased opposition in Ontario
The central province of Ontario has experienced a major heat wave and drought this summer putting a great strain on water supplies. Indeed residents in most communities all across Canada now regularly face water usage restrictions in summer. In spite… »
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