An American wind-power company is suing Canada for $475 million dollars. Another wind-power company based in Ontario is also suing for $500 million. The claims are under segments of the North American Free Trade Agreement and stem from a decision… »
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, International, Society
Controversial French humourist, denied entry to Canada
For years French humourist Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, of France, has been at the centre of controversy over his routines and the issue of free speech. Scheduled for performances in Montreal, he arrived at the airport, but was sent back to… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Teaching a computer to fight computer crime
Watson, the IBM “cognitive”supercomputer, originally designed to compete on the TV quiz show Jeopardy, has a new goal. It will be programmed to fight cyber crime, and three Canadian universities are helping to “teach” it, one of them is the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
The Good, and the bad, of disaster relief
With the destruction of a substantial part of the northern Alberta town of Fort McMurray, there has been a generous outpouring of donations from across Canada to help the tens of thousands temporarily displaced. With some 2600 buildings burned, thousands… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Delivering better care for children’s emotional and mental health needs
It’s a first for Ottawa and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and possibly in Canada and elsewhere as well. The hospital today announced the first step of its plan to build a novel paediatric-focused Centre for Mental Health… »
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History, May 1969 the Canadian behind the hit musical Hair
It was the era of the hippie, of being free ; the era of Vietnam war and peace marches, and protests. It was an era of rebellion, of marijuana and LSD and symbolizing all of that comes “Hair” The full… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Revolutionary finding may rewrite thousands of research studies, science textbooks.
It seems so obvious, yet somehow, it hasn’t been. Anyone performing almost any kind of experiment knows that if you alter a variable just a tiny bit, you can, and likely will, alter the outcome. This is true whether mixing… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Canadian invention: solar panels obsolete?
Solar panels have become the hot new “green” idea in the past many years. However, even as they undergo continuous development they may already be on the way to becoming obsolete. Typical solar panels operate at around 15 percent efficiency.… »
Fading art: Conversation with wood boat builder Louis Duguay
It’s a lifestyle, it’s a local culture, and many would argue that is indeed an art. Louis Duguay, now aged 70, has been building east coast commercial fishing boats for over 40 years along the north coast of New Brunswick… »
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The LINK Online, Sat. May 07, 2016
Your hosts this week are Lynn, Levon and Marc Parties to conflict are flouting international rules forbidding attacks on medical staff and facilities, as they did in the attack on the Kunduz trauma centre in Afghanistan in October 2015. © Doctors… »
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