The full “Link” team is together again this week, Lynn, Wojtek and Marc, to present another look at some of the highlights this past week. The discovery that his great-great-grandfather was a Métis rebel who had died in 1885 defending… »
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.
Health, International, Society
Canadian critical of lack of Ebola scrutiny
A woman who has just returned to Canada from Sierra Leone says there were only minimal ebola screening measures taken at the airport in Freetown. The organization Save the Children says that 5 more people are being infected every hour… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Climate change adversely affecting Arctic wildlife
There is increasing evidence that climate change, which is warming the polar region, is having negative affect upon a variety of wildlife. While there have long been concerns about that some populations of polar bears are shrinking, studies now show… »
Rare heritage plane home again
It is one of the most iconic airplanes of the Second World War. Where once there were thousands, hundreds of them Canadian-built, now there are only two Lancaster bombers left flying in the world. Leon Evans is one of only… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Society
Rediscovering the sacred traditions of wild rice
Wild rice was once a critically important food source for aboriginal tribes from the southern parts of the province of Manitoba to parts of Quebec and in the US around the Great Lakes. Red dot indicated First Nations Wikwemikong Resrve… »
International, Politics, Society
Toronto School Board poised to cancel China’s Confucius Institute deal
The growing controversy over China’s Confucius Institutes has resulted in yet another deal on its way to being cancelled. A committee for Canada’s largest school board has recommended that the Toronto District School Board end its associations with the Confucious… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Stress in pregnancy affects child’s genetic expression
We are learning more about how stress during pregnancy will have an affect upon the children. A new study has been following the children of mothers who experienced the stress of a massive ice storm in Quebec in 1998, which… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics
Polar ice loss affecting gravity
While we think of the earth’s gravity as uniform and constant, there are in fact very slight variations over mountains, lakes, and other geological features, and where density of the earth varies. Now, it’s been determined that climate change is… »
International, Politics, Society
Booklet against radicalization of muslim youth
The handbook comprises 37 pages. It tells Muslim parents how to detect warning signs their children are becoming radicalized before it’s too late. The booklet includes sections on the warning signs that youth are starting to become radicalized © CBC The… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Alarming toll on world’s wildlife
In just the past 40 years, the world has lost over half its wildlife population. That estimate comes from scientists at the World Wildlife Federation and the Zoological Society of London in a report today called “Living Planet Report 2014”… »
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