Marc Montgomery
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

Controversial wolf cull now underway in B.C

.The west coast province of British Columbia has embarked on a plan to shoot wolves in what they say is an immediate action in an effort to save the few remaining caribou of the South Selkirk herd. The South Selkirk »

International, Politics, Society

Controversial monument slated for national capital

It’s called the National Monument to Victims of Communism. A large, multi-million dollar memorial to be built on prime federal land donated by the government near the Supreme Court, Justice Building and the Library and Archives buildings. Ludwik Klimkowski, is »

Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology

Canadian research: new orangutan discovery

A Canadian researcher was working on a project in Borneo involving the rare snow leopard, when  he stumbled across a previously unknown behaviour in orangutans. Brent Loken is a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia in the »

Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society

Canadians increasingly concerned about privacy

A new report stemming from a poll by Canada’s Privacy Commissioner has found that nine out of 10 Canadians say they are concerned about their privacy. In fact the poll show a third (34%) of Canadians now say they are »

Society

Gaelic language slowly gaining ground in Canada

The 2011 Canadian census reported 7,195 speakers of “Gaelic languages” in Canada which includes not only Gaelic but Irish, Welsh and Breton as well. It is a miniscule percentage in a population close to 35 million, but about 15% of »

Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society

Commemorative to Holocaust Jews and Canada’s dark past

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp, a tiny bit of good news for Holocaust survivors and descendants in Canada. In 2011, a memorial to a dark moment in history was »

Health, Society

Task Force: Family doctors need to monitor patient weight gain

The Canadian Task Force on Preventative Health Care has issued a new report on obesity. The report notes that two-thirds of the Canadian population is now considered overweight or obese, nearly triple the number it was in the 1970’s Dietitian »

Politics, Society

Manitoba, first province to grant women the vote.

Exactly 101 years ago today, women’s  right to vote was at the centre of a long-standing debate in Winnipeg. Mrs Nellie McClung who had long advocated for social reforms in western Canada, formed a group called the Women’s Political Equality »

International, Society

Canada’s first military mission overseas

On January 26th, 1885 a British relief force of over 5,000 soldiers which had struggled its way up the Nile from Cairo, spotted their objective, Khartoum, with them were dozens of Canadians who had brought the British boats upriver. The »

Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Politics, Society

Concern for public broadcasting in Canada.

Anthony S Manera was appointed to the presidency of Canada’s public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada for a five year term in 1994.  A year later, he resigned in protest over the hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts and shortfall he »