David Phillips is a senior climatologist at Environment Canada. He says municipalities are still stuck in old planning ideas when the both the changing climate and changing urban centres require new concepts to cope with the new normal of wilder… »
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.
International, Politics, Society
History: August 24, 1814 How the US attempt to invade Canada led to the “White House” name.
August 19th 1814 was hot and muggy day. The War of 1812 between the US (and France) and Britain had now been dragging on for two years. During that time, the US had tried unsuccessfully on several occasions to occupy… »
Cosmetic claims of youthful skin, healthy hair: “It’s all baloney”
“Restores youthful skin..”; “gives healthy stronger hair…”, etc. These are typical kinds of claims made by cosmetics firms to sell their products. To support such claims, the manufacturers often tout ingredient claims ranging from added vitamins, to age-repairing anti-oxidants, also often… »
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The LINK Online, Sat, July 25, 2015
Your hosts this edition, Carmel, Marc, Lynn The United Nations estimates over four million Syrians have fled the country. It has asked countries around the world to resettle refugees who are in camps in neighbouring countries like this one in… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Emancipation Day in the British Empire.
Several former British colonies will be celebrating on August 1 It’s the day that slavery was banned throughout the British Empire back in 1834. In Canada, one of the events to mark the day will be taking place at a… »
International, Politics, Society
History: July 25th 2006 ”My God they’ve killed Wolf!
“Wolf” was Canadian Forces Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener. On July 25th, 2006 the 44-year-old Canadian soldier and three other peacekeepers from Austria, China, and Finland, were in an underground bunker as bombs and shells rained down on their UN observer… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
The high-tech world of paddling and rowing
If there’s one thing Canadians know about it’s canoeing, kayaking and rowing. For east coast Canada, rowing small a small dory out onto the sea was a way of life, as it was for the Inuit in the far north… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Shell: Go-ahead for Arctic drilling
Shell Oil has overcome the final hurdle in its plans for exploratory drilling in the Arctic. The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement approved Shell’s final drilling permits, and the company can now begin drilling exploration wells this summer… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
History- July 23, 1983: the incredible “Gimli Glider”
It might have been one of the worst air disasters in Canadian history, but, it wasn’t. On this day, July 23 1983, an almost brand new, at the time high-tech passenger jet, was scheduled to take off on a routine… »
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Continued decline of Monarch butterflies
A wet cool spring in the US south and midwest means fewer monarch butterflies this year in Canada, according to Chip Taylor of Monarch Watch at the University of Kansas. He says rain in Texas and Oklahoma received a lot… »
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