Radio Canada International began its first official broadcast on February 25th 1945. Last night a group of past and present members gathered to celebrate the occasion at a display set up in the cafeteria of the CBC/Radio-Canada building in Montreal… »
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.
Obesity and weight: easy to gain, difficult to lose
It seems whether young or old, once you put on the extra weight, it’s very hard to lose it, and keep it off. New research at McMaster University analyzed hundreds of different obesity and weight-loss studies over the past decade… »
Canada, a tale of two weather extremes
In west coast Canada the winter has been unusually mild. The Yukon Sourdough Festival in the far northern city of Whitehorse had to bring in snow for the snow carving event. On Vancouver Island and the lower Fraser river, the… »
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Global warming means new disease in the Arctic, and elsewhere
The Arctic ice and very long winters has for eons limited access to the far north except for a number of specialized plants, animals, and marine life. The cold also served as a barrier to insects and to certain diseases.… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International
New standard for rail tankers: still not safe?
A report into a derailment and fire of a train of crude oil tankers earlier this month says the new standard of rail cars has still proven inadequate to prevent bursting and fires. Following the deadly Lac Megantic Qc oil… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Future Arctic, how the north affects the world
While many people have heard of changes happening in the Arctic over the past few short decades, one man has been seeing them happen first hand. Edmonton, Alberta-based author, journalist, photographer Ed Struzik had spent some 35 years on scientific… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Hundreds more trees victims of Dutch Elm disease
Charlottetown to begin cutting 300 trees. They are majestic soaring trees, providing shade in hot cities, and life for birds and animals. But hundreds more elms are to set to be cut down again this year, this time in Charlottetown,… »
Poetry- two very different Canadian styles- GE Clarke, Al Purdy
On this edition, poetry, a form of expression that can evoke all kinds of emotions from longing, to sadness, to love of course, joy, and philosophical thought. Today a little later an interesting take on a poem by one of… »
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The LINK Online Sat Feb.24, 2015
Amid the snow and frigid weather, your hosts this week are Wojtek, Lynn, and Marc Canada’s Official Opposition NDP party leader Thomas Mulcair says his party will not support the government’s proposed anti-terrorism legislation, Bill C-51. © PC/Adrian Wyld/CP The ruling… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Ebola battle continues
Although it has faded somewhat from the headlines, the fight to contain and halt the spread of deadly Ebola infections continues. The second contingent of Canadian military personnel has arrived today in Kerry Town, Sierra Leone, south of the capital… »
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