U.S. President Joe Biden had indicated during his election campaign that he was against the huge Keystone expansion pipeline project, and indeed on his first day as President he signed an order revoking the project’s permit. The pipeline, like almost… »
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.
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
The Arctic’s ‘last ice area’ disappearing faster than thought
A region of the high Arctic, especially the region just off the north coasts of Greenland and Canada’s Ellesmere Island, has been dubbed ‘the last ice area’. This is because scientists have determined that, as ice cover is slowly melted… »
Olympics ‘2020-1’, Maybe no fans, maybe no games
With the coronavirus showing no signs of diminishing around the world, questions are arising about the already once-postponed summer Olympics. Originally set for last summer in Tokyo, the Games were postponed to this summer in the hope the virus would… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International
Study shows bits of your clothes are polluting Arctic oceans
They’re called ‘microplastics’ and they’ve invaded almost every aquatic environment on Earth. They are tiny bits of plastic 5 mm or less in size down to the microscopic level which come from deliberately made to be tiny such as microbeads… »
Farmed flies turning food waste into valuable environmental product
Actually the title is a rather misleading as a British Columbia company is recycling literally tonnes of waste food into useful animal feed and fertilizer every day, and they do it with maggots. It is said that large amounts of… »
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Will he or won’t he? Biden, Canada, and the XL pipeline
A rocky start to Canada-U.S. relations? TC Energy suspends work on pipeline Incoming U.S President Joe Biden has said one of his first acts will be to revoke approval for the Keystone XL pipeline expansion project. This has caused great… »
Economy, Health, Politics, Society
Night curfew to curb COVID-19: survey
On January 8, Canada’s second most populous province, and one of the two hardest hit by the SARS-CoV2 virus, instituted a month-long nighttime curfew. The measure by the province of Quebec will be reviewed and either ended or renewed on… »
Life and death, Nova Scotia’s unprecedented organ donation programme
It is a first in North America. The maritime province of Nova Scotia has implemented an ‘opt-out’ policy for organ donation. This means that everyone over the age of 19 is presumed to agree to donate organs in the case… »
Economy, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Canada clears Boeing MAX-8 for flight
Almost two years after a pair of deadly crashes of Boeing’s new 737 ‘Max-8’ jets resulting in grounding the Boeing 737 Max planes around the world, Canada has given the go-ahead for the planes to resume operations in Canadian airspace.… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International
World insect decline; a serious issue for nature and for humans
We may hate them, and some bring deadly diseases, but insects are a vital component of nature. Their numbers are also in steep decline. A study from the University of Helsinki on insect decline last year began this way, “With… »
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