After several reports of various government agencies, misplacing or having the computerized data of citizens stolen, the Privacy Commissioner’s office is now in the spotlight for the same thing. An unencrypted hard drive containing the salary information of about 800… »
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.
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canadian Military explores sunken sailing ship in the Arctic
A very interesting archeological and historical side has emerged from a a large military exercise in Canada’s far north called Operation Operation Nunalavilut 2014. In 1853, the three-masted HMS Breadalbane, involved in the search for Captain John Franklin’s lost expedition,… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
The problem of faking it in the science world
Can you trust the studies published in some science journals these days? Well, perhaps not nearly as much as most scientists would like. Dr Roger Pierson at the University of Saskatchewan has had to deal with fake research papers listed… »
Canada’s Foreign Minister pays respects at Auschwitz
John Baird, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs visited the Second World War Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp today (Thursday). Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister places flowers against the “executions wall” of the Auschwitz death camp, © AP photo -Czarek Sokolowski Accompanied by Canada’s… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Chicken producers ban antibiotic that contributes to “superbugs”
It’s a clear case of drug abuse, or at least misuse, and the Chicken Farmers of Canada has taken matters into their own hands. Chicken farmers-particularly factory operations- across Canada will be ending use of Category-1 antibiotics starting next month. … »
Internet, Science & Technology
Federal cuts mean the end of Canada’s world-class Cereal Research Centre
To most Canadians the name Cereal Research Centre means virtually nothing, but to grain farmers across the country, the CRC is an extremely well-known and important institution. The research station will close this month as part of government austerity measures.… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Keeping science simple and short, (i.e. 3 minutes or less)
You’ve been working intensely for three or four years in your particular scientific field, becoming very comfortable speaking in very complicated and arcane scientific terminology to others in that field. Now, try to explain all that technical and complex work… »
Arts & Entertainment, Environment & Animal Life, Society
Is it art or…. ?
In an ever ongoing debate about public art, the western city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, has entered the fray. A resident there has put a black tarp over a work of temporary public art in protest, saying it’s an improvement. The… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
More citizen’s personal data stolen from government agency
It’s another case of personal information being lost of stolen from government computers. The latest is the theft of a government computer from a car in St John, in the eastern maritime province of New Brunswick The laptop contained the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Activists reveal inhumane conditions at veal factory farm
A Canadian animal rights group has released another disturbing undercover video of a commercial farming operation.. After undercover videos at commercial pig farms and battery egg production, the group sent a member to a commercial veal production operation in the… »
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