They are often huge. They are always majestic and awe-inspiring. Some have been around for a thousand years or even more. Now a renewed effort is underway to document these giants. It’s called the BC Big Tree Registry Sally Aitken… »
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.
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Cursed British painting (replica) unveiled in Canada
Unveiled at the Glenbow museum this week, the painting is a replica of a grisly work that hangs in London’s Royal Holloway College. It relates to the lost Franklin expedition of 1845 to find the fabled Northwest Passage through the… »
Canadian Farmers continue fight against trade deal
This past Friday, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and leaders of the European Union signed a finalized text version of a long-negotiated free trade deal with Europe. This “Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement “ (CETA), still has to be approved in… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Politics, Society
Concerns over investigator bias
There seems no end to controversy surrounding the Northern gateway pipeline project. The oil industry wants to build a 1,177 kilometre pipeline to connect the oil sands in Alberta to a terminal on the British Columbia coast. The British Columbia… »
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Artist-painter Lorn Curry
When unexpectedly severe budget cuts struck RCI, journalist Lorn Curry suddenly found himself out of work. His retirement plan to take up painting which was supposed to be many years away, was suddenly an option. Although he had been dabbling… »
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The LINK Online (Sept 27, 2014)
The full team is back with regular hosts with Lynn, Wojtek, and Marc The neutrality of Andrew Scheer, the Speaker of the House of Commons, was called into question by the Official Opposition NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair after a testy… »
Aging population in eastern Canada
Florida has long been known as a place where senior citizens move to spend their retirement. The percentage of citizens over age 65 has long been the highest in all North America. Now it seems two Canadian provinces are close… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
Unusual smuggler nabbed at US-Canada border
A Canadian man has been charged by both Canadian and US officials in what may at first appear to be an unusual choice for smuggling. US authorities have charged Kai Xu of Windsor, Ontario, with smuggling goods, trade in endangered… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Canadian study changes knowledge of canyon rivers
Water flows down through a canyon, but new information from a Canadian study now changes just about everything that was thought about the dynamics of that flow. River flow through bedrock canyons is also climate-related, connected to mountain uplift, along… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Soot from Canadian wildfires increases melting on Greenland
Researchers studying Greenland’s massive ice-sheet are making some worrisome findings. Danish-born glaciologist Jason Box who has studied glaciers for two-decades is in the second year of a study called the Dark Snow project. He is with the Geological Survey of… »
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