It’s called the Global Gender Gap Report. It’s an annual report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) – the body behind the high-powered annual Davos summit – first issued in 2006. The report looks at gender issues in 142 countries… »
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.
New Mayor for Toronto: Ford-Nation down, but not out
Doug Ford, left, and his far more controversial brother, Rob Ford(right). Doug Ford, a last minute entry in the mayoral race to replace his brother, told his very vocal supporters Monday night-“Friends, it is important to know we are leaving… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Recreating cities from antiquity for your mobile device
Imagine visiting an ancient ruined city around the Mediterranean and seeing what it actually looked like, the exact rooms, buildings, and city itself when they were whole several thousand years ago. An archaeology professor and tech team from the University… »
Canada’s biggest city about to elect a new mayor, city councillors
Residents of Toronto are going to the polls today to elect a new mayor, and council members representing 44 wards in the city. Outgoing mayor Rob Ford, who was seen acting in a strange and sometimes belligerent fashion in more… »
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Calls for poppies to remember soldiers killed in domestic attacks
Every year on the last Friday of October, prior to the November 11 Remembrance Day, Canada’s “Poppy Campaign” begins. As a result of Canadian soldier LtCol John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields”, the poppy has become the symbol to honour… »
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Book- Where I Belong- musician Alan Doyle
Alan Doyle being interviewed by CBC in Petty Harbour Newfoundland © CBC Alan Doyle grew up in a small village on the coast of the Atlantic province of Newfoundland. He is now a renowned singer-songwriter and member of the extremely… »
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The LINK Online (Sat Oct 25, 2014)
Your hosts are Lynn Desjardins, Wojtek Gwiazda, and Marc Montgomery Photo of Martin Couture-Rouleau holding a copy of the Koran superimposed on images from the parking lot where the two military personnel were struck by Rouleau’s car © CBC-Ummaland The tragic… »
Canada history: Oct. 25, 1854 Canadian courage, the Charge of the Light Brigade
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! “Charge for the guns!” he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. It is a most famous poem,… »
Unique conservation plan on Canada’s east coast
It’s called the Bay of Islands Coastal Wilderness project, or the Wild Islands project Bay of Islands comprises dozens of small islands between Clam Harbour and Mushaboom Harbour (about 30km long) on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia © Google It’s… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Canadian Muslim groups react to killing of Canadian soldiers
Several Canadian Muslim groups have come out to publicly condemn the murders of two Canadian soldiers this week by recent converts to Islam. On Monday a uniformed soldier was run down and killed in St-Jean-sur Richelieu,Quebec by a driver who… »
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