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

Global “Doomsday” edges closer

“This is about doomsday; this is about the end of civilization as we know it,” bulletin executive director Kennette Benedict Scientists have moved the “Doomsday Clock” another two minutes closer to the end fo the world. The time is now »

Arts & Entertainment

Ontario painter Michael Kilburn

Sweeping landscapes evoking the majesty of the Ontario wilderness, the peace of nature undisturbed by human hand, the rustic nature of tilting buildings in rural Newfoundland, the boats and sea, or the seabirds, ocean, and warm scenes of Florida, all »

Uncategorized

The LINK Online Sat. Jan 24

The full team joins you today, Lynn, Wojtek, and Marc About one year ago, the federal government gave the go-ahead to the biggest armaments deal in its history in a deal that’s worth a staggering $15 billion dollars. Months after »

Environment & Animal Life, International, Society

World ice-boat championships come to Ontario.

Kingston Ontario has ideal ice this year While many shun the cold of a northern winter, it does have it’s advantages. For example, there are many who enjoy the chance to practice a whole new set of sports, some of »

International, Society

Burn’s Day: Pipe in the haggis!

It’s time to bring on the haggis!   Vast numbers of Canadians are gearing up for a great event this Sunday. January 25th is the anniversary of Robbie Burns birthday, which is a day to celebrate Scotland’s most famous poet. However, »

International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society

Canadian student still in the running for Mars Colony

It’s a one way trip, to an unknown and very uncertain future on Mars. Still, when it was announced, some 200.000 people in over 140 countries put their names forward. A Dutch-based non-profit company is behind the Mars One project »

Economy, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology

Amazingly simple, low-cost Canadian surgical innovation

Some medical-engineering students at the University of British Columbia have come up with a unique, simple low-cost solution to a long-standing medical problem facing surgeons especially in developing countries and in emergency conflict situations. The students who have founded their »

International, Society

Women’s World Cup: turf war ends- but not amicably

It was a contentious battle pitting a group of elite women’s football (soccer) against FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) over field conditions for the 2015 Women’s World Cup. Canada will host the event this summer, but on pitches »

Health, Internet, Science & Technology

Canadian research discovers how we continually update visual memory of surroundings.

It’s something we do without ever thinking about it. It’s a short-term “visual memory map” of where things are in relation to our bodies and where we are currently looking, even as we shift our vision and bodies away from »

Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics

Busy year for cash seizures by Canadian Border Services

Officials at Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) customs posts in airports and border crossings have had a busy time in the past few months seizing large amounts of undeclared and dodgy cash. Travellers are allowed to carry as much cash »