A small town in Alberta has just passed a local bylaw that calls for stiff fines for a number of offences. The new “community standards” bylaw includes fines for, swearing, spitting, yelling or other loud noises, urinating in public, panhandling,… »
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, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Mayor of a Quebec town rails against “intellectuals and environmentalists”
The mainly French-speaking province of Quebec is once again making world news. But perhaps not in the way the province would like Jean Tremblay, the mayor of the city of Saguenay posted a video message on YouTube yesterday (Tuesday) in… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Op Nunalivut 2015 and Franklin’s lost expedition
Led by Sir John Franklin, a three-time experienced Arctic explorer, the 1845 mission of the two ice-strengthened and heated Royal Navy ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, was to complete passage and mapping of the fabled “Northwest Passage”. However, this… »
International, Politics, Society
Responsibility to Protect- when should the international community intervene
This is the 10th anniversary year of the 2005 World Summit in which the concept of international Responsibility to Protect (R2P) was endorsed. It advanced the idea that state sovereignty was not an absolute and as such gives the world… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
The Canadian roots of telephone and telecommunications.
The beginnings of the telephone On March 10, 1876, and just days after being granted an American patent for “improvement in Telegraphy”, Canadian Alexander Bell was able to transmit his voice across wires to an assistant in another room. As… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology
Distant mission to Ceres- dwarf planet
It’s what is known as a dwarf planet, just under 1000-kilometres in diameter orbiting out in the darkness of space out beyond Mars. It’s called Ceres. “Dawn” is NASA’s probe to Ceres, on an archaeological mission of sorts. It seeks… »
Tough winter for ferries in eastern Canada
It’s been an unusually cold winter in the southern parts of central and eastern Canada. This has meant particular troubles for the number of ferryboats traversing the Gulf of St Lawrence. Even in Lake Ontario, the ice build-up trapped the… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
RCI 70th anniversary: A humourous take on RCI’s 15th anniversary in 1960
Max Ferguson’s broadcasting career began just a year after RCI or the CBC International Service as it was then known, went on the air. As a junior announcer on the domestic public service (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), he found shortly after… »
Documentary: Deluged by Data
We have mobile phones, tablets, and apps for things that most people can’t even imagine. Montreal author, columnist, filmmaker Josh Freed tries on a data device However, some people have given themselves over completely to new electronic devices. There’s even… »
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The LINK Online, Mar. 07, 2015
Once again the full regular team is in studio to present this edition, Lynn, Wojtek and Marc Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, left, U.S. President George H.W. Bush, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney were the national leaders involved… »
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