Wartime British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said regarding a major victory in 1942, “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning”. Perhaps that… »
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, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
COVID-19: Rush for emergency financial aid may be too late for some newspapers
As part of the effort to help cushion the financial effects of the various COVID-19 shutdowns, the federal government initiated a number of emergency funding programmes. One is the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy which offers up to 78 per cent… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
Major remembrance ceremonies cancelled, but remembrance continues (interview)
Letters in a Time of War A major wartime remembrance event was to be taking place this week in Holland. This was to remember Operation Faust, a Canadian and Allied effort to feed starving Dutch citizens still occupied by Germans.… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, Society
COVID-19: Personal care, social carelessness: medical litter
It’s the ‘nouveau litter’ of the pandemic. More Canadians are wearing medical type latex gloves and face masks as a way of hopefully protecting themselves from the SarsCoV-2 virus. But it seems while caring about themselves personally, there’s a limit… »
Arts & Entertainment, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
COVID-19: Huge benefit concert fundraiser Sunday
Dozens of Canadian musicians, actors, olympians, and others have come together for a mega benefit concert to raise funds for Food Banks Canada and to honour ‘front line’ workers involved in the fight against the coronavirus. Food Banks Canada supports… »
Economy, International, Politics
COVID-19: Are we headed for world recession?
The International Monetary Fund is warning of a ‘severe recession’ in 2020 IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said the economy was already ob a ‘sluggish’ recovery of the global economy prior to the pandemic due to trade disputes, and international tensions.… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International
COVID-19: Possible meat shortages to come?
With so many restaurants closed due to emergency health orders in Canada the demand for milk and milk products has dropped dramatically. That in turn has resulted in dairy farmers in Canada having to dump millions of litres of milk.… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Adding insult to tragedy: Fake fundraiser after Nova Scotia shooting
Most people can’t imagine the kind of person who would try to cash in on people’s sorrow and generosity following the terrible shooting tragedy in Nova Scotia at the weekend. But sadly it seems, that kind of person or persons,… »
Economy, Health, International, Politics
China-Canada: diplomatic war of words
The two countries, already embroiled in diplomatic cold spell over Canada’s detention of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, has a couple of new spats. While Meng is under house arrest in her Vancouver mansion, two Canadian Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor… »
COVID-19: Hospital surgeries facing massive backlog
With viral infection rates slowing, or in some cases leveling off, there is hope that we may have seen the peak of the virus. Except for emergencies, hospitals had shut down operating theatres and elective surgeries in order to devote… »
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