Canada’s updated Food Guide will be released this year. It’s the first time in 11 years, Health Canada is releasing a revamp and it’s going to make some waves. Rumoured recommendations in the new guide have many in the country’s… »
Terry Haig
Terry Haig has been a journalist for over 40 years and a radio host for over 20. He was been with RCI since 1972, playing the role of writer, producer, newsreader and and on-air personality. Mr. Haig is also an actor, having performed in over 60 films as well as on the stage in Canada, the UK and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his work with the Montreal Expos baseball team when he was a beat writer, a columnist and the analyst for Expos games.
Ski program for Indigenous youth continually moving ahead
A program to improve the health and well being of Indigenous youth through outdoor sport and play really appears to be working in the Canadian West. Spirit North is doing just fine, thank you very much. Led by a former… »
Health, International, Society
Your presence is requested at a brief respite from the world’s madness
Let’s pull no punches. It’s been a rough, rough year for way too many residents on Planet Earth. You know who they are. You might even be one of them. Answers abound on what to do. I’ve got a brief… »
A look back at 2018 in pictures from Canada and around the world
New Year’s affords many of us the time to take a brief break as we gather ourselves for what’s ahead. It is also, of course, a time to reflect on what’s behind. Some of those stories are happy. Some are… »
Economy, Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Employment gap continues to narrow between newcomers and native Canadians
New figures from Statistics Canada show the employment gap between immigrants and Canadian-born workers has reached its lowest level since 2006, the first year it studied. The research showed 78.9 per cent of newcomers aged 25 to 54 are in… »
Canadian Mint to issue coins celebrating D-Day and gay rights
The Royal Canadian Mint will issue commemorate coins in 2019 to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944 and the 50th anniversary of Parliament’s decriminalizing homosexual acts in 1969. The D-Day landing marked the start… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
No movement reported in China-Canada political dispute
The fraught–sometimes overwrought–relations between Canada and China continue to simmer and bubble up following the arrest of the chief financial officer of the Chinese techno giant Huawei at Vancouver Airport on Dec. 1. Meng Wanzhou’s arrest at the request of… »
Feeling blue? Here’s some tonic!
EDITOR’S NOTE: As we prepare to enter a new year, this story is for all of us devolving into cynicism, for all of us viewing with alarm the hardening of our hearts, for all of us of who have lost… »
Virtue and Moir claim another title: team of the year
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who led the Canadian Olympic Team into the opening ceremonies at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea and then went out and won the the gold medal in ice dancing with a record-breaking… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Dire warnings are renewed about melting Canadian glaciers
Scientists are issuing renewed–and dire–warnings about the fate of Canadian mountain glaciers. They say the glaciers are receding at a dramatic rate–the result of less snow and rapid melt. “Probably 80 per cent of the mountain glaciers in Alberta and… »
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