As climate change makes the once remote Arctic more accessible, pressure is mounting to seek the minerals, and oil, and fish reserves thought to be waiting there. One of the world’s most biodiverse areas though is the Lancaster Sound where… »
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.
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the LINK Online Sat., Apr. 04, 2015
For this holiday Easter weekend your hosts are Wojtek, and Marc Canada’s Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault released her report ‘Striking the Right Balance for Transparency-Recommendations to modernize the Access to Information Act’ Tuesday, March 31, 2015. © PC/Sean Kilpatrick/CP For some… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Maritime Canada- Easter snow? Enough is enough already!
As if Canada’s maritime provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, along with the Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador haven’t already had enough of winter, with its record snowfall! Northwest winds will blow snow around on… »
History: April 03, 1944; Canadian led attack cripples Tirpitz, out of the war
It was called Operation Tungsten. It was designed as a daring dive-bomber attack against the huge German battleship Tirpitz, sister to the Bismarck. Leading the dive bombers was a young Canadian. A Fairey Barracuda II of 814 Squadron, Fleet Air… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Update: bill labelling microbeads as toxic passes Parliament
An opposition party motion in the Canadian Parliament to declare plastic microbeads as a toxic substance has been passed this week. It’s a step further in the process that could lead to them being banned n Canada Recent studies have… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics
Heated sidewalks for downtown Montreal
Montreal has had a long cold winter, which has included a couple of dangerous ice storms. City planners have already indicated that he changing climate, including things like more ice storms, is challenging snow and ice removal efforts, and costing… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Society
Are playgrounds too safe?
People of a certain generation remember that as young children they were involved in lots of outdoor activities. These included climbing trees, exploring the back yard, or nearby fields and ponds, or in city parks on the big, heavy wooden… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life
Crimea conflict could block oil spill treaty in Arctic
The political dispute over Crimea between Russia, and the Ukraine and NATO nations, including Canada, could have an unexpected ripple effect in the high Arctic. At the senior arctic officials meeting (SAO) of the 8-member Arctic Council in early March,… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Society
Canada’s traffic congested cities: time and money
TomTom-the personal GPS manufacturer-has released its fifth annual traffic index which covers some 218 cities in 36 around the world. Istanbul ranks the highest, i.e. having the most congestion. Canada’s west coast port city of Vancouver comes in at 20th… »
International, Politics, Society
Canada and the Arctic: less talk, more action.
Fen Hampson is the co-author of several books, and articles on Canadian sovereignty, foreign policy, domestic and international security, trade and other geopolitical issues. His latest book is called Brave New Canada Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World. In… »
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