Predictions earlier this year for another destructive forest fire season seem to be coming true. Last year, records were set in terms of both the number and amount of forest burned across Canada and this year the season has started… »
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.
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Shark,ray study shows overfishing is depleting stocks
Reported catching of sharks , rays and related species have declined by as much as 20 percent since peak shark landings in 2003. Researchers at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, wanted to examine the hypothesis that the reduction was… »
Sell-off of public utility challenged
Opposition to sale mounting. The government of Canada’s most populous province recently announced a plan to sell off a majority share of the province’s public electrical supplier, Hydro One. The provincial Liberal government under Premier Kathleen Wynn announced in April… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International
Arctic mine’s contentious request
An Inuit organization has asked a federal minister to get involved in a dispute in the Arctic. Bernard Valcourt, the federal Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development minister, now finds himself caught between a huge mining company asking him to intervene… »
Internet, Science & Technology
Searching the Stars: McMaster University astrophysicist Rene Heller-life on distant moons?
Looking for life in all the wrong places. Rene Heller PhD, astrophysicist at the Origins Institute, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario © supplied For decades, if not centuries, man has been looking at the heavens wondering about… »
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The LINK Online, Sat.,May 25, 2015
Your hosts today are Lynn, Carmel, and Marc The use of antipsychotic drugs in seniors’ residences has been a matter of intense debate across Canada, not only because of their side-effects. © iStock A new study raising more questions about the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Society
Arctic Huskies DNA related to ancient Siberian wolf
If you think that Arctic Huskies have a bit of wolf in them, you’re right. It’s thought that the very first travelers into the new world crossing the Beringia land bridge brought husky-like dogs with them from Siberia to the… »
History: the last fatal duel in ‘Canada’ May 22, 1838
It seems that almost from the time Europeans began to settle in the New World of Canada there were occasional duels to settle disputes at the rate of approximately one per year. From the mid 1600’s to 1948, there were… »
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Opiates from sugar; new Canadian research leads the way.
Synthetic opium advance-new medicines but also new regulations Opium poppies are both a scourge and a blessing. Drugs like morphine and codeine, important therapeutic medicines are derived from them, but also illegal narcotics such as heroin. Now, under carefully controlled… »
National capital fight over building height limits
While some cities like to vaunt their giant skyscraper concrete cubes, Canada’s national capital, Ottawa, wants to limit building heights. City council is now going to court to fight for the right to regulate building heights in the city. The… »
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