Canadian actor Rod Beattie is back on stage for another wonderful season. Beattie as “Ed” the editor of the fictional Larkspur newspaper © Terry Manzo Perhaps we should say instead, Walt Wingfield, former big city stockbroker turned small town farmer is… »
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.
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The LINK Online (Sat 15 Feb., 2014)
This week the show is presented this week by Marc as wojtek and Lynn are not with us this week. Nevertheless several very interesting stories to present. With so much excitement about athlete’s performances at the Winter Olympics in Sochi,… »
Soccer (football) scrutinized for concussions, especially women.
A new report is expressing concern over head injuries in soccer, which is the fastest growing and most popular world sport. Soccer is not often thought of as a sport where concussions are a concern, but statistics show 15 per-cent… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Pilots want stricter penalties for pointing lasers at aircraft
Small easily available laser pointers are handy, and inexpensive, but pilots say they can also easily be deadly. People usually aim such devices at planes at night and on landing approach when they are flying low and relatively slow. This… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Overcoming the scientific language barrier through art
To an outsider, scientists communicating with other scientists often seem like they’re speaking in an incomprehensible language. Graham Strickert (PhD) © U Saskatchewan Scientists for their part are often frustrated in trying to get their research information understood by the general… »
Environment & Animal Life, International
The Great Backyard Bird Count
Enlisting citizens to help science Scientists want to get a much better idea of what’s happening to the world’s bird populations. They’ve found the best way to do it is get citizens involved in counting and identifying birds that they… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
Captain’s “reckless decision” led to the loss of the Bounty
The (HMS) Bounty, one of the world’s few remaining tall ships was lost in Hurricane Sandy on October 29 in 2012. The Bounty was built in Nova Scotia for the 1962 MGM film “Mutiny on the Bounty” and since used… »
The Olympic movement: a critical look amid the thrills
People around the world are glued to their televisions watching the exciting action at the Sochi Winter Olympics. But not everyone views the Olympics or the International Olympic Committee without posing some hard questions. Stacy Lorenz is an associate professor of… »
Taming abusive hockey parents not so easy
Screaming and swearing at their own children, at other’s children, at the referees, at the coaches, throwing things on the ice, fighting with other parents in the stands, none of this is unusual in minor hockey leagues in Canada. It’s… »
Baby has 3 legal parents
It’s a first in the west coast province of British Columbia. Three month old Della Wolf Kangro Wiley Richards has three parents legally listed on her birth certificate. Married female couple Danielle Wiley and Anna Richards wanted a baby and… »
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