With the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down businesses and markets in countries around the world, banks and governments are moving to provide stimulus to avoid a major recession. There has been near panic selling on stock markets which… »
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.
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International
The LINK Online, Mar. 13,14,15, 2020
Your hosts, Vincenzo, Terry, Marc. (video of show at bottom) Air pollution- a silent pandemic With the world pre-occupied by COVID-19, the deadly virus spreading around the world to become a declared pandemic, scientists say there’s a silent pandemic that’s… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Politics
Disagreement continues over who speaks for the Wet’suwet’en
The rail blockades may be down and the transportation network working to get back on schedule, but the dispute over the natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia that started the crisis seems to continue. The pipeline is to cross… »
Coping with Covid, federal government pledges $1 Billion
With the declaration of a Covid-19 pandemic, and the first recorded death from the virus in Canada, the federal government pledged a billion dollars to both fight the virus and mitigate the effects on society. Ian Culbert, is the executive-director… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Politics
Canada’s Prime Minister in self-isolation over COVID-19
Canada’s Prime Minister, JustinTrudeau, has gone into self-isolation along with his wife after her return from a trip to the UK. Upon her return she apparently began exhibiting some mild flu-like symptoms and a low fever. Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau had been… »
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Update: Another international event falls victim to Covid-19
118,000 cases in 114 countries and 4,291 deaths. Now officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, the latest event to be cancelled because of the spreading virus is the World Figure Skating Championship set for Montreal starting next… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Sports
On or off? World figure skating championships and Covid-19
The world is scheduled to come to Montreal this month for a major international sporting event, but will it? The Quebec government is said to be considering cancelling the championships in light of the Covid-19 crisis which has already resulted… »
Recording vanishing history in Manitoba
For a biology professor in Winnipeg, an interest in history has become almost equivalent to a full-time passion. Gordon Goldsborough (PhD) is a professor of biological sciences at the University of Manitoba, and president of the Manitoba Historical Society. Away… »
International, Politics, Sports
History Canada: March 11,1952: Hockey breaks out at the front lines of war
In the midst of the Korean War, Canadians were among the U.N. forces manning the hills that constituted the front line facing Communist forces of the North Koreans and Chinese. Between those hills flowed the Imjin river below. The winters… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Efforts to bring female voices to journalism in Africa and the Middle East
For too long, women’s voices and perspectives have been silent in much of world. The Canadian group Journalists for Human Rights is changing that. The group is launching an ambitious multi-year programme in several African countries to train female journalists… »
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