It was begun in 2005 by the Coalition for Music Education in Canada to celebrate and raise awareness of the role of music education in our lives. It takes place annually on the first Monday in May across the country,… »
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, Internet, Science & Technology
Human records confirm climate warming science, (or vice versa)
A vast multitude of scientific studies from all over the world have been showing rapid warming and climate change since the industrial revolution. Now, an international research team has been poring over records of physical observations meticulously and continuously recorded… »
Tax time in Canada with it’s 3,000 page tax act
It is tax time in Canada. If you owe the government money, you have to file a tax return by April 30th every year. Because that falls on a weekend this year, 2016,, you have until May 1st, Monday to… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Call to end malaria around the world
This week, April 25 to be exact, was “World Malaria Day” . The theme of this year’s world malaria day was “End Malaria” It is a major and deadly scourge around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in 2015 there… »
International, Politics, Society
Canadian hostages in Philippines: PM – Canada pays no ransom
The news came Monday. A Canadian tourist among a small group taken hostage by an extremist Muslim group in the Phillipines was brutally beheaded. After a ransom deadline passed, John Ridsdel’s head was dumped in Jolo, a town in Sulu… »
History: April 27, 1967 –Expo 67: Canada welcomes the world
The year 1967 was Canada’s centennial. The anticipation of national celebrations had been building for the past couple of years, and everyone was waiting for one of the major events, the opening of the world fair, Expo 67 in Montreal.… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
New understanding of brain function and how we learn
We watch someone demonstrating an action, and then we repeat it. But in doing so we are “learning” that action. But it’s a very complex process. Recent research has uncovered a bit more of this learning process. Heather McGregor is… »
Update: Checkmate-public pressure puts players back in the mall
Chess players in the Park Royal Mall in West Vancouver, got the boot earlier this month. The corporation running the mall decided that the handful of players who in recent years had been gathering in the food court, weren’t buying… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Society
Environmentally aware: a matter of mind..over mind
We just marked Earth Day on Friday, April 22, but are we really doing all that well in our efforts to be more responsible in trying to reduce our environmental footprint? Apparently added education about the effects of our personal… »
History- April 25, 1940 Quebec last to allow women to vote.
On this day, April 25, 1940, Quebec finally, allowed women the right to vote, the last jurisdiction in Canada to do so. Politician and publisher Henri Bourassa said giving women the right to vote would transform them from womwn to… »
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