Marc Montgomery
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

Calgary woodpeckers lovely, but becoming pests

Damage in the thousands of dollars It seems some woodpeckers in the western city of Calgary Alberta have developed a bad habit. A retirement community on the outskirts of the city is being targetted by woodpeckers who are drilling into »

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics

Canadian meat producers applaud final win over US trade law.

In years past, beef cattle, hogs and other livestock moved back and forth across the Canada-US border in a vastly important trade relationship. Several years ago, the US instituted a programme called Country Of Origin Labelling (COOL) insisting that American »

International, Society

History: May 20,1948 – The end of Canada’s top fighter ace of WWII

George Beurling DSO, DFC, DFM & Bar was only 26 at the time of his death on May 20, 1948. Unlike most flying aces of either of the world wars, Beurling is largely forgotten today in spite of the fact »

Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics

New Polar shipping environment rules

It’s called the Polar Code and it’s been six years in the makin but a committee of the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) completed work on environmental concerns just last week at a meeting in London, England. The Polar Code »

Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society

Call for tracking of foreign ownership of housing

Montreal has seen buyers from China, Syria, Mexico, Russia and the U.S –Sotheby’s Int’l Realty Canada With prices going ever higher for housing in Canada, at least on federal politician is calling for investigation of foreign speculation on housing. While »

Environment & Animal Life, Society

History: Canada’s National Parks May 19, 1911

The world’s first national parks administration Canada’s national parks are sites of incredible natural beauty, with some also declared World Heritage sites, and it started on this day in 1911 with the creation of the Dominion Parks Branch of the »

Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology

New Canadian research could lead to the end of allergies

Some people suffer through spring and all its pollen with clogged noses, and runny and itchy eyes. Others can’t be near cats, others can have potentially deadly reactions to peanuts or seafood. It seems between 20-30 percent of the Canadian »

Uncategorized

Agriculture in Alberta: Jack Francis; farmer, animal research technician, museum curator

He’s an Alberta prairie boy through and through.  A farm boy in his youth, Jack Francis soon joined the University of Alberta’s Edmonton Research Station where he began to care for the various animals and help in research. This involved »

Uncategorized

The LINK Online Sat., May 16, 2015

Today’s edition is presented by Lynn Desjardins, and Marc Montgomery, with contribution by Carmel Kilkenny Prices you pay for online shopping may depend on what companies can find out about you © Associated Press More people seem to be purchasing things »

Economy, Politics, Society

History, May 15, 1919 the biggest general strike in Canada begins

May 15, 1919 was a Thursday. At 11;00 AM the western city of Winnipeg was paralysed as  between 20 and 30-thousand worked walked out in a general strike.  It had been brewing for months. When Canadian soldiers began returning home »