One of Canada’s beloved folk music bands was called simply “Stringband”. Co-founder Bob Bossin has been continually touring with his own songs interspersed with the very occasional and much loved Stringband reunions which have occurred over the years. His latest… »
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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The LINK online (Sat June 7,2014)
This week your hosts are Lynn Desjardins, and Marc Montgomery The federal government has been embarking on an austerity programme which has meant severe and often highly cricitized funding cutbacks in a number of areas and to many institutions. One-hundred… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous
Aboriginal duo charged with trafficking protected species
Two members of the Stoney Nakoda first nation in the western province of Alberta have been fined a total of $17,000 for killing and selling protected eagles and owls Harlin Daniels and his sister Terry, were charged with trafficking bones,… »
D-Day 70th, the greatest invasion in history
In the early hours of June 6, 1944, a massive Allied force of almost 300,000 soldiers with vast amounts of vehicles and supplies was on route from England towards the beaches of Normandy. Using lessons learned from the massive landings in… »
Economy, International, Society
The Formula One circus arrives in Canada
The cars are unloaded and are being prepared for North America’s only stop on the F-1 tour coming this weekend. Aerial veiw of the track on Ile Ste Helene looking east For fans of racing, the Montreal, Canada stop has… »
D-Day 70th, passing the important memory of service and sacrifice
For those who have walked the beaches and towns of Normandy getting a first-hand look at the enormity and danger of the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944, is always astounding. Dartmouth Nova Scotia high-school teacher Anne McLeod at the… »
Environment & Animal Life, International
GM crops linked to massive decline of Monarch butterfly
A just published study says the worrisome and massive decline in the monarch butterfly is due to a lack of the milkweed plant in their breeding grounds. The migratory insect flies from Canada and the US to Mexico in a… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Society
Learning language, easier or harder in a bilingual environment?.
For children growing up in a bilingual or multilingual environment, it was long thought that the “confusion” caused by such exposure would delay learning either language well. Krista Byers-Heinlein (PhD) is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at… »
D-Day 70th: Juno Beach Centre tribute to the fallen
The German defenders in Normandy were well dug in when the first waves of Canadian soldiers struggled ashore on June 6th, 1944, The Juno Beach Centre is Canada’s only museum on the D-Day Landing Beaches in Normandy, founded by Second… »
Canada: today’s anniversary of where baseball began
We know basketball was invented by a Canadian, and that American style football was developed on Canadian rules after Harvard played against Canada’s McGill University and preferred the Canadian game, and now today is the anniversary of the first recorded… »
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