Canada is often said to be a young country, and it’s final addition after the Second World War attests to that fact. Newfoundland was England’s first possession in the “new world”, and the final province in Canada. Prime Minister Louis… »
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.
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society, Sports
Hockey helmets; not so safe?
It’s called the STAR system, an anacronym for Summation of Tests for the Analysis of Risk. It’s a sports helmet rating system devised by the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech University in the USA. The five-star rating was in development… »
Interview with northern Ontario artist Ivan Wheale
It’s a long way from post-war England to Sudbury, Canada’s hard-rock mining centre in northern Ontario, but that was the trip Ivan Wheale made as a young man. Ontario artist on Manitoulin Island, Ivan Wheale in front of a window… »
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The LINK Online, Sat., Mar 28, 2015
(Please not: if you are experiencing slowness in page loading, technicians are working on the issue which should be resolved next week) Marc is your host this edition, though both Lynn and Wojtek have left stories for us. Canada’s Prime… »
Supreme Court ends Canada’s long-gun registry
It was an astronomically costly, convoluted, and extremely controversial effort from its outset. Now all remaining information in the long-gun registry database in Canada will be scrapped, in spite of a Quebec protest to keep its portion of the federal… »
Winter’s legacy: potential for major damaging floods
As Canada enters it’s first few days of spring, it seems the wild winter in central and especially maritime Canada has left a potentially disastrous legacy. Already with the heavy snow load, a number of building have suffered roof collapses… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
“Filmed in Technicolour”; Insulin, electron microscope, and so much more, all from Ontario
Most people don’t know that the Hollywood film process that was proudly proclaimed at the start of films for decades, “Technicolour” (or Technicolor), was invented by a Canadian from Ontario. They may also not know that the electron microscope, critical… »
Long bitter winter forces Lynx to town
Once again this year, an exceptionally cold and long winter is causing normally very shy lynx to approach towns in northern Ontario searching for food. In one case a rather relaxed lynx is seen in the town of Terrace Bay… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Indigenous, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Plastic microbeads- a toxic substance in waterways-from the Great Lakes to the Arctic
They are very tiny beads usually made of polyethylene, which is a very common plastic used for example, to make plastic bags. The microbeads are found in a wide variety of facial scrubs, body gels, and in toothpaste to act… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Politics
Canadian scholars unite in a report for action on climate change
As human activity is being cited as a major cause of global warming resulting in climate change, Canada has also often been pointed out as being lax on initiatives to reduce greenhouse gasses. In a unique effort, more than 60… »
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