Potential Canadian home buyers have been facing soaring house prices across the country, most especially in the major cities. Apartment rents have also been rising dramatically. While the costs for “shelter” have been soaring, salaries have not, even as other… »
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
The drag effect of fishing gear entanglements on whales
We’ve all seen too many images of whales tangled in fishing gear. This is heavy stuff, and the ropes can cut into the whale skin causing serious and potentiall deadly infections and injuries. However, dragging the weight through the water… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Climate, Greenland ice sheet: new study shows potential greater sea-level rise
The huge Greenland ice sheet is changing and in a newly discovered way. Traditionally, snows falling on the ice sheet transform into new ice as they become compacted by the weight of several metres of snow falling on top of… »
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History- the deadly ice storm: Jan. 5, 1998
It has been called one of the worst natural disasters in Canadian history. Late on January 4, 1998, freezing rain began to fall in eastern Ontario and kept falling. As people throughout the region and into the northern US states and… »
High CEO salaries, is greater taxation the answer?
An annual survey of Canada’s top 100 CEO’s shows that by lunchtime on the first working day of the new year, they had already earned the equivalent of the yearly salary of the average Canadian worker. The Canadian Centre for Policy… »
Update- Trials tribulations of trivial tribute
The silly situation concerning a tribute to a world-renowned Montreal novelist and essayist continues. For Montreal, and the mostly French-speaking province of Quebec, it’s been an embarrassing conundrum on how to honour Mordecai Richler which has long pitted Franco-Quebec separatists… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
After COP-21: working towards Net Zero buildings and construction
There has been much excitement stemming from the agreement at the COP-21 Paris Climate meeting. As a side event there was a “buildings” day, in which various stakeholders in the buildings trade exchanged ideas. One group attending was the Canada… »
Green Christmas for most Canadians
Not only is it not going to be a white Christmas for the southern and most populated parts of Ontario Quebec and the eastern maritime provinces, it’s almost T-shirt weather. Several golf courses in this part of the country have… »
International, Politics, Society
Dec. 24, 1814: The Christmas peace that ensured “Canada”.
It had been a long dragged-out conflict. In Europe, Britain and France had been battling each other on and off since 1793. By 1814, Britain had defeated Napoleon and France and could turn its attention and forces against the United… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics
Biomass power generation: is it really “green”?
A new study puts into question the idea that burning trees (biomass) to generate electricity, is “carbon neutral”. It particularly looks at the process to feed the two biomass generators in the east-coast province of Nova Scotia. The 42-page study… »
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