AVC professor Dr John Vanleeuwen has led student veterinarians to over several years to advise Kenya farmers and treat their animals. © University of Prince Edward Island Thanks to a Canadian veterinarian, small hold cattle farmers in Kenya have seen their… »
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, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Sharp decline in seabird population in British Columbia
Decline in marine prey fish blamed. They seem fairly ubiquitous, but researchers have found Glacous-wing gull populations in dropping sharply on the west coast of Canada. In fact, the gull population is down by about 50% since the 1980’s. The… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canadian museum joins ban on “selfie-sticks”
They’re called “selfie sticks” long extendible poles you can attach your mobile phone or camera to and which extend much further than arm’s length in order to take wider photo shots or group photos or to get closer to a… »
Toronto’s mystery bunker solved-sort of
In January, a mysterious, well built, underground bunker was discovered on thickly forested public land near York University in Toronto Ontario. The bunker was accidentally discovered by a security officer when he noticed a large pile of dirt in the… »
Documentary: The Antibiotic Hunters
Writer-director Bruce Mohun with a 3-toed sloth during filming of “The Antibiotic Hunters” © Dreamfilm.ca We’re running out of drugs to combat increasingly deadly bacteria. The drugs we have are losing their effectiveness, meaning infections that were previously easily controllable, could… »
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The LINK Online Sat., 28 Feb. 2015
Dressed warmly for the Arctic weather we’ve been having in Montreal are Wojtek, Lynn, and Marc A sound project by interdisciplinary artist Amanda Dawn Christie turned into a unique film record of the end of the shortwave transmitter site of… »
Victory: The first overseas military action of young Canada
February 27, 1900. In the 1800’s European nations were eagerly building colonial empires in Africa. In the 1880’s, British expansion came into conflict with German expansion, and the long-time Dutch farmers “Boers”. Both the Boers and British also came into… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
February 27, 1842: “Rammed earth” and a church consecration
While “rammed earth” is not a familiar term now, it was not unusual in the 1800’s. Also not unusual is the consecration of a small church in a Canadian village. But there is something unique about St Thomas Anglican Church… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health
Epidemics expert: spend millions now to save billions later.
As humans push into more remote areas they are coming into contact with diseases rarely encountered before. Diseases confined to animals for example are now being transferred to human hosts, and then develop into disease which can be spread from… »
Arts & Entertainment, Health, Politics, Society
Canadian city relents (somewhat) on anti-tobaggan law
with files from CBC Canadians across the country have been outraged by a recent spate of municipal by-laws against the iconic Canadian winter sport of tobogganing down snowy winter slopes in city parks. The city of Hamilton Ontario is now… »
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