It was on February 20th 1959, a day that became known as “black Friday”, that a sudden and unexpected announcement from the nation’s capital shocked the many thousands of workers at an aerospace plant near Toronto, Ontario. Canada’s then Prime… »
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.
Legal brothels for Canada?
Strip club owners in Canada say they are looking to include brothels in their operations. The idea is being pushed due to a Supreme Court ruling in December that unanimously struck down three important segments of Canada’s prostitution laws: laws… »
A Canadian’s inside look at “The Dakar”, world’s biggest auto rally
It’s an annual two-week period of madness and supreme skill, exhaustion, danger, thrills, and camaraderie. It’s the supreme challenge of man and machine versus anything nature and geography can throw against them. It’s the Dakar Rally and Canadian David Mills… »
Rare Nova Scotia Olympic medal mystery solved
For almost six decades, Nova Scotia resident Vicky Fitzgerald kept a large but mysterious medal hoping some day to figure out what it was. As a child, her family was not well off, and a great-aunt relative in the US… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Study links herring decline to commercial fishing
For thousands of years it was a tiny fish, herring, not just the iconic Pacific salmon, that sustained indigenous peoples all along the North American west coast. A new study shows the archeological record presenting a much different picture of… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
NAFTA leaders urged to protect monarch butterfly
The leaders of Canada, the US, and Mexico are being called upon to take action to save the disappearing Monarch butterfly. Stephen Harper, Barack Obama, and Enrique Pena Nieto are meeting this week in Mexico to discuss issues like the… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Warming Arctic may be aiding the spread of disease
A Canadian team of scientists have discovered that pathogens have been spreading to new species and killing them, and it may be due to the warming of the Arctic. Michael Grigg and Stephen Raverty from the University of British Columbia’s… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology
Canadian research advances fight against deadly fungal infections
Newly developed Canadian research could soon help physicians combat dangerous fungal infections. It also can identify the likely path of resistance mutations a fungus will develop in response to a drug and so aid in development of new drugs to… »
Canadians fed up with “rich” politicians abusing tax money
A poll commissioned by the ruling federal Conservative government last August but released only last week, shows Canadians are angry with politicians. The poll was conducted by the Leger marketing firm for the Privy Council, the Prime Minister’s own advisory… »
Economy, International, Society
Canada’s multi-billion dollar military vehicle sale to Saudi Arabia
This past Friday, Canada’s International Trade Minister, Ed Fast, announced a major sale of armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia. The announcement, said to be worth $10-billion during the multi year contract, was made at the General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada plant… »
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