Canada will be holding a World Association of Chefs Societies culinary competition in Toronto starting next week. Cornelia Volino is co-chair of the Toronto Culinary Salon, and president of the Escoffier Society of Toronto Chef Cornelia Volino; She’s been coordinating… »
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.
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics
Update: Negotiations on commercial fishing in Arctic waters
Previously many vast areas of the Arctic seas were permanently covered with ice, but with global warming more and more areas are becoming ice free in summer. This makes these international waters accessible to commercial fishing. Predictions now are that… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Radioactive water from Japan tracked in Canada
A Canadian scientist says radioactive water from the destroyed Fukashima nuclear plant in Japan is being tracked to help determine currents in the Pacific. The tsunami that wrecked the Japanese plant happened in March 2011, and by June scientists began… »
Doctors stalked, threatened, abused
It comes as a surprise to find that a high percentage of doctors in Canada have been subject to some form of violence. This is coming primarily from patients seeking narcotic painkillers and other drugs. The study was published in… »
The truly frozen land
No doubt about it, while the southern hemisphere experiences a variety of heat related problems, including massive fires in Australia, Canada is having a truly Arctic winter. The scene earliy this morning as crews try to deal with yet another… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Digesting a Canadian Discovery
No, it’s not a new food recipe, its about how food is digested. A Canadian research team has made a breakthrough in discovering how the digestive system works. It has been something that has eluded scientists for years, mostly because… »
Vast numbers of residents contemplate leaving Quebec
A spring election is looming in the mostly French-speaking province of Quebec. The current minority government of the separatist Parti Quebecois (PQ) will be seeking a majority, If they succeed, the threat of another referendum on separation from Canada is… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Greenhouse gas killing shellfish
As more CO2 goes into the air, the oceans absorb more and that makes them more acidic. Higher acidity compromises the ability of shellfish to make their shells, weakens them, and leaves more vulnerable to infections. A scallop producer on… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life
Quebec: too much energy, stop new projects immediately
A report by a special energy commission in the mainly French speaking province of Quebec is advising the government to completely rethink its energy policy. The province is one of several in Canada, but relatively rare in the world, that… »
International, Politics, Society
A Canadian lecturer’s analysis of Ukraine situation
The situation in Ukraine, especially in the capital Kiev, is very much in flux and evolving hour by hour. After several days of deadly violence, an interim government is now trying to get things under control. Just outside Keiv, an… »
The world in pictures
Canada in pictures
