Following the long and bitterly cold winter experienced by much of southern Canada, comes more unpleasant surprise for many areas, in the form of floods. In many cases the floods are being caused by ice jams on rivers. Due to… »
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
Unexpected discovery: viral aphrodisiac STD
It was an unexpected finding. While studying stress in crickets connected with fleeing from predators, a researcher and colleagues discovered a unique trait in a virus that may help in dealing with sexually transmitted diseases in humans. Shelley Adamo (PI)… »
Unique Newfoundland coin sells for almost $103,000
It’s rare. In fact, it’s the only one in the world. In 1865, when the now Atlantic province of Newfoundland was still a British colony, a test design was struck for a new $2 gold coin. The coin is what… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Society
Annual seal hunt begins in east coast Canada
A much smaller number of hunters is out on the ice fields of the east coast this week for the annual seal hunt. Most hunting takes place off the north-east coast of the Atlantic province of Newfoundland involving herds of… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Ranking the most distinct and most endangered, birds
A trio of researchers in British Columbia had been instrumental in a unique international effort involving the world’s birds. They created lists ranking birds in order of their evolutionary distinctness, and to what degree they are threatened with extinction. Arne… »
Canadians losing cooking skills
A new survey by a major supermarket chain has found that younger people are losing cooking skills. In February of this year some 1,014 online interviews were conducted for Nova Scotia-based Sobeys supermarket chain. It surveyed Canadians between the ages… »
RMS Titanic-CQD- SOS- Come immediately!
It was late at night on the 14th of April for the wireless operators in a lonely Marconi radio station at Cape Race Newfoundland, who had be hearing and relaying messages from incoming ships, to stations along the east coast… »
Lifestyle: the Law and Happiness
It seems a strange combination..law and happiness. But a fairly high percentage of lawyers, and judges, and others in the legal professions suffer from depression. Marilyn Poitras who has long and wide-ranging experience in law has developed a programme to… »
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the LINK Online (Sat April12, 2014)
Your hosts this week are Lynn Desjardins, Wojtek Gwiazda, and Marc Montgomery Dr Joel Lexchin is an emergency physician at The University Health Network and a Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto. Many… »
Canadians like alcohol, but tastes are changing
Canadians like their alcohol. We tend to be among the top drinkers in the world. One study published showed that Canadians drink about 50% more on average than others around the planet. Whether that’s true or not, Canadians are upping… »
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