Two years ago, the 21 universities in Canada’s central province of Ontario came up with an idea to make the public more aware of the research their universities were doing, and how that research benefitted them. The concept is called “Research… »
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.
Election day in the province of Quebec
Today millions of people in the mostly French-speaking province of Quebec, the second most populous in Canada, will go to the polls to elect a provincial government. Over 6-million residents are eligible to vote in the province and almost 20%… »
Ontario Appeals Court to rule on citizenship oath challenge
The Ontario Court of Appeal, the highest court in the province, is set to hear a case this week to determine the constitutionality of a long-standing requirement of Canadian citizenship. The Citizenship Act requires applicants for citizenship to swear or… »
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The LINK Online (Sat April 5, 2014)
Your hosts this week Lynn Desjardins, Wojtek Gwiazda, Marc Montgomery In its most recent report and for the first time, scientists convened by the United Nations on the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warn that if the world does nothing to… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Saskatchewans Western Development Museum at 65
The province’s Western Development Museum was started in 1949 with the foresight to preserve agricultural machinery showing development of the technology over the years. As the museum grew, its mandate has grown as well to reflect all aspects of history… »
The Canadian who saved Ceylon, and to some extent, the war.
It was early dawn, April 4, 1942, that RCAF Squadron Leader Len Birchall of RCAF 413 Tusker Squadron, and his 8 crewmen took off from their base in Ceylon searching for a suspected Japanese fleet. Birchall’s squadron had only just… »
Vestiges of winter still causing problems
Winter may be “officially” over, but for tens of thousands of Canadians in eastern Canada, it sure doesn’t seem like.. Two huge wheel loaders (one digging from the other direction and not seen) are almost dwarfed by snow drifts across… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Canadian research reveals new clue to rapid Arctic ice melt
A new study of the Arctic’s vast Mackenzie river delta has discovered that an unexpected aspect of climate change is having a very big effect. Lance Lesack, a professor in both the Department of Geography and Department of Biological Sciences at… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Canadian mobile phone radiation guidelines- OK- for now
First, you must realize that your mobile phone, similar devices, and cell phone towers are not phones. They are radio transmitters and receivers. They emit low-power radiation during operation. Health Canada had asked The Royal Society of Canada to review… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Society
A whopper of a tale, but it did get away, kind of
An American ice fisherman got a lot more than he expected on a recent fishing trip to Canada. He not only caught what is very probably a world record fish, but he himself got caught up in the law, and… »
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