After 166 years of searching for Sir John Franklin’s ships in the Arctic, one of the world’s most enduring and puzzling maritime mysteries has been solved. Or has it? Ian MacLaren (PhD) is a professor of history and classics at… »
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.
Resurrecting a forgotten Canadian comic-book hero
Brok Windsor is not a name Canadians today will recognize, but to Canadian children in the war years, he was a hero involved in fantastic adventures on a mysterious island deep in the Canadian north woods. © Jon Stables estate-H Nicholson… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Climate change: North America’s birds will suffer
The Audubon Society has just released a new report showing the major affect climate will have on north American birds. As warming occurs, the climate ranges- the overall region and conditions the birds have adapted to- will change. In some… »
September 10: it’s WAR for Canada
Everyone hoped it did not come to this But, after the obvious failure of the Munich agreement, and Germany’s invasion of Poland, Britain declared war on Germany on September 3rd. Workman John Hawkins of Toronto checks the tags of Bren… »
Health, International, Society
Online predator encouraged suicide: conviction
A former Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in the US has now finally been convicted in a case of assisting a suicide via the internet. Married and a father of two teenage girls, William Melchert-Dinkel, 52, of Faribault, Minnesota was accused… »
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
University teachers call for an end to Confucius Institutes
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has taken the unusual step of asking universities and colleges to stop collaboration with China’s “Confucius Institute”. David Robinson is the executive director of the CAUT. The Confucious Institutes teach students Mandarin and… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Found at last! Franklin ship lost for 166 years.
The well-prepared ships left England in 1845 in search of the fabled Northwest Passage through the Arctic, to the Orient. Erebus and Terror being towed carefully through ice. The mystery of the lost ships is solved to some degree with… »
Autumn (often deadly) collisions between man and nature
A Canadian reality is that a great many cities and areas of Canada exist on the edges of the wilderness. There are many cases of unexpected and often unfortunate encounters between man and nature Particularly at this time of year… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Beekeepers sue multinationals over neonicotinoid use
A class-action lawsuit has been announced for Ontario beekeepers against the multinational agri-business giants Bayer Cropscience, Syngenta Canada, and their parent companies over the marketing of the suite of neonicotinoid pesticides. The claim initiated by two large private honey producers… »
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Niagara display of preserved bodies: ongoing controversy
A human rights organization is calling for a halt to a graphic display of “plasticized” human corpses and body parts currently in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The bodies with skin removed, and in various poses, are in an exhibition called “Bodies… »
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