Federal New Democratic Party and City Mayors in Quebec join fight To add insult to injury, Canada Post’s new redesigned community mailboxes are designed and built in the USA © Canada Post The resistance to Canada Post’s plans to end all… »
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, Health, Society
Canadian consumers food priority is for locally grown
Shoppers at farmer’s markets say their priority is locally grown for its freshness There has been a growing interest in organic foods, but a new study shows Canadians are shopping at local farmer’s markets seeking locally grown foods as a… »
History- May 14, 1874 How Canada created American football
Though American websites seldom, if ever, mention it, and American sportscasters probably don’t know it either, the origins of another of their greatest professional sports had come from Canada. While Canadian James Naismith invented basketball, American style “football” also came… »
Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
A “different” language debate simmers in Canada
No English or French on Chinese business signs in Vancouver suburb Canada’s “main” language debate is well-known around the world. High-profile issues such as a letter by a Parti Quebecois politician who wrote a letter seeking to ban Sir Paul… »
Crude prank backfires badly
FHRITHP It started as a video hoax in Jan 2014 by an American filmmaker John Cain. In the first video, Cain as a reporter makes the crude remark apparently as an outtake that was aired by mistake during a news… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Marine extinctions past, and in the future
Ancient fossil record helps to understand species vulnerability today An international study of extinctions of marine life millions of years ago may point to extinction risk hot spots today. Derek Tittensor (PhD) is a senior marine biodiversity scientist at the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Research into climate and human effects on Hudson Bay
The 2012 documentary film “People of a Feather” told the story of how a giant hydro-electric project in Quebec had changed the lives of the aboriginal hunters in Hudson Bay, and not for the better. Although the hydro-electric mega project… »
Economy, International, Society
How human nature inflates CEO salaries
It seems that when we hear of CEO salaries, they are huge. But, how do they get that way? Two Toronto researchers noticed that CEO salaries in the past few decades have been increasing much faster than the general level… »
Economy, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Quebec superhospital move benefits developing countries
When the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, along with McGill University’s hospital teaching operation, and the Montreal Children’s hospital moved into the new McGill University Hospital Centre (MUHC)superhospital, it was seen as an opportunity to upgrade a lot of equipment.… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
The “Canadian Horse” in danger?
Canada’s national horse has a clear lineage. It dates back to 1660’s when King Louis XIV, the Sun king, had a small numer os stallions and mares from his royal stud farm sent to France’s colony in the New World… »
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