With files from CBC They would have been the terror of the seas, but fortunately that would have been about 70 million years ago. The mososaurs were large fiercesome predators at the top of the food chain in the giant… »
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, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology
New bird flu threat, future solution
Authorities are concerned about a new strain of avian flu which is spreading across China. This new strain is exhibiting different characteristics from other strains, and researchers have suggested that it may mutate further and risks becoming a pandemic. Matthew… »
Oh no! Not Again! Winter blasts the east.
With a much awaited spring just days away, and while flowers are already in bloom on the west coast, parts of eastern Ontario and southern Quebec got another taste of winter with between 10 to 20-centimeters of snow this weekend.… »
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The Link ONLINE, Sat. Mar.14, 2015
Wojtek, Lynn, and Marc are your hosts for this edition. Canada’s Justice Minister Peter MacKay (left), Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Steven Blaney, CSIS director Michel Coulombe and RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson arrive at the House of Commons Public… »
International, Politics, Society
Mar. 14 1793: Canada- beginning to the end of slavery in the British Empire
Although “Black History Month” (February) has ended in Canada, March 14 nonetheless marks an important date in the emancipation of blacks. Upper Canada’s Lt-Governor at the time was John Graves Simcoe of Britain who had been an abolitionist before his… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Politics, Society
Honouring an author- tribute to Moredecai Richler
He was one of Canada’s internationally renowned authors with his works translated into several languages. Mordecai Richler who died in 2001, was also a screenwriter and well-known and highly respected essayist. In one of his collections, Belling the Cat (1998)… »
Environment & Animal Life, International
Supply barge adrift in the Arctic-for months.
With files from CBC news A Canadian company’s supply barge which has been floating loose around the Arctic since last October, is now just off Russia’s northeast coast after drifting from the Northwest territories, across the Yukon coast, across the… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Canadian breakthrough in the nature-nurture debate in determining traits
Canadian researchers have made a startling discovery with potentially huge repercussions. The research was carried out at McGill University in Montreal where the team discovered a mechanism controlling gene expression of growth such that they could environmentally (through epigenetics) adjust the… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International
Wild boar a growing concern in Saskatchewan
The large fur-covered and tusked animals were introduced to the province from Russia as exotic livestock in the 1990’s as part of a farm diversification programme. Some later apparently escaped into the wild where they have adapted easily to Canadian… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
2015 report “Losing Our Grip” on crucial Canadian farmland
Canada’s National Farmers Union (NFU), a farmers rights and issues advocacy group, has released a report on the growing concern of farm land purchases by huge investment operations, agri-bizz, and foreign interests. The NFU had been seeing for many years… »
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