Alberta resident Will Gadd, 47, has been co-awarded the title of ‘adventurer of the year 2015’ by the US-based National Geographic magazine. Award winning adventurer, ice-climber, kayaker, and paraglider Will Gadd © twitter@gilwad The title would add to his already impressive… »
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, Society
New discovery- Ancient scorpions
One of the advantages to living in Canada is the distinct lack of poisonous creatures: no poisonous fish, poisonous rattle snakes are very few, and very limited in their range, there may be poisonous brown recluse spiders in some areas… »
Economy, International, Society
Target Canada- a giant miss for US retail giant.
Just two years after entering the Canadian market the US retail chain is calling it quits in Canada. It will close all its 133 stores and lay off over 17-thousand employees as it begins liquidation. The retail giant entered the… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
Superman takes off!
It was on Jan 16, 1939 the Canadian Joe Shuster’s creation of Superman first appeared in comic strips. Shuster’s family moved from Toronto, Ontario to Cleveland in the US when he was still fairly young. It was there that the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology
New dangers from common consumer chemical
Recent studies have led to concerns about a common chemical found in a wide variety of consumer products and its affect upon foetuses and growing children. As a result of that information Bisphenol A- used to harden plastics, and as… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health
Diesel exhaust: danger to DNA
In 2012 the France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization said diesel engine exhaust fumes have a definite link to cancer and belong in the same potentially deadly category as asbestos, arsenic and… »
Economy, International, Politics, Society
Canadian tour in memory of the Ukrainian genocide
They collapsed and died in the street, they died in their beds, and in the fields. In the midst of plenty, millions of Ukrainians died of starvation in 1932-33. It is known as the Holodomor- loosely translated as “death by… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology
Building better rechargeable batteries
Research continues at a steady pace into building longer-lasting, less expensive rechargeable batteries for everything from watches, to mobile phones, even to electric cars. Canadian research has just made a big step in that direction thanks to the Nazar Lab… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Microplastics, problem in Great Lakes, problem world-wide
Every time you wash your clothes, you are undoubtedly contributing to a growing worldwide problem. Most of our clothes contain a mixture of cotton and petro-chemical plastic-based fibres; acrylic, nylon, or polyester. Every wash releases thousands of microscopic bits of… »
Canadian pension fund to invest in China
The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has signed a joint venture deal with a Chinese developer in a major real estate project in Suzhou. The city with its population of some 10 million, is the fifth most affluent in… »
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