They’re known in Canada as “left lane hogs”, and ultimately by several other less pleasant names, by people in cars backed up behind them on the highway, unable to pass. Ian Toothill, co-founder of SENSE- a motorist advocacy group ““Some… »
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.
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics
Unprecedented Canadian court ruling against Google
A provincial court ruling in the west coast province of British Columbia has sparked interest in legal circles around the world. The question involves the ability of a court in one country to exert authority across its borders in relation… »
Environment & Animal Life, International
Noisy voracious US invader on Canada’s west coast
This month a carpenter on Vancouver Island off Canada’s west coast got a bit of surprise. While dragging his fishing line in a muddy pond near Port Alberni, he snagged onto something heavy. Lifting it the surface he found he’d… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
New study focusing on Manitoba’s environmental importance
Environmental groups have just released a report outlining the environmental importance of preserving the boreal forest in Canada’s central-west province of Manitoba. Jeff Wells is the Science and Policy Director for the Boreal Songbird Initiative, which along with Ducks Unlimited… »
Ultra-rich Canadians actually earning up to 71% more than thought
A new study shows the gap in income inequality in Canada is actually greater than previously thought. Previously, studies looked only at individual tax returns which showed the top one percent earned ten percent of all income. In 2011 this… »
Arts & Entertainment, Politics, Society
Rob Ford: the musical
(with files from CBC) You may be hard-pressed to think of a stage play, or especially a musical about a city mayor..Ok there was Fiorella about the former New York City mayor, but such theatrical subjects are few and far… »
2014 World Cup goes hi-tech
This year’s World Cup has introduced a number of high-tech features to the championship. Vijay Setlur is a marketing instructor at York University’s Schulich School of Business in Toronto and avid football fan Sports marketing instructor at the York Univeristy’s… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Society
Gold! The biggest find in Canada
It’s the gold rush you probably never heard of, but it was the biggest gold find in Canada by far. The current city of Timmins shown in 1913, This modern city began as staging point for prospectors and quickly became… »
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The LINK online (Sat June 14, 2014)
Welcome to the Link, with Lynn Desjardins and Marc Montgomery A section of a new proposed law, Bill C-24 would allow the federal government to strip Canadian citizenship from citizens born in Canada, if they are eligible or qualify for… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
High ‘steaks’ theft in Canada
Most people in urban centres of Canada would undoubtedly think “cattle rustling” is something out of Hollywood westerns of the past. Alberta rancher Alan Hobbs knows differntly. Thieves have just cost him tens of thousands of dollars. With the high… »
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