It hasn’t raised the kind of backlash that followed the bumping and roughing up of a 69-year-old doctor on the now-infamous United Airlines flight sitting on the tarmac last week in Chicago, but the experience of a Prince Edward Island… »
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.
Economy, International, Society
IMF projection of Canadian economic growth lower than Ottawa’s
Canada’s economic growth may not be as rosy as the Bank of Canada predicted last week. Keeping with a previous forecast, the International Monetary Fund predicts that Canada’s gross domestic product will grow by 1.9 per cent this year. Bank… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
It’s Stanley Cup playoff season, everybody take a deep breath
Let the games begin, let the drama unfold, let the toothpicks be inserted into the bleary eyes of Canadians across the country, all of them up way to late with their eyes glued to their television sets. Penguins captain and… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Ottawa moves to strip former Guatemalan soldier of Canadian citizenship
The federal government has filed court documents to strip Canadian citizenship from a former Guatemalan special forces commander accused of slaughtering Guatemalan villagers during a 1982 massacre. Ottawa says Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes concealed the crimes when he obtained Canadian… »
Uncategorized
Canada sets sanctions against high-ranking Syrian officials
Canada’s foreign affairs minister, Chrystia Freeland, has announced sanctions against 27 high-ranking officials in the Assad regime. Freeland says the move is part of an effort to put international pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad to end indiscriminate violence against… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
Quebec City residents continue to seek answers as they grapple and sift the aftermath of January’s mosque attack
Shortly after dusk on Sunday Jan. 29, a young man named Alexandre Bissonnette, armed with a rifle, entered the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque in the city’s Sainte-Foy neighbourhood that serves as the spiritual home to the… »
Justice Minister introduces new legislation aimed at drunk drivers
A new law aimed at cracking down on drunk driving has been introduced in Parliament. If it passes, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says it “will be one of the strongest impaired-driving pieces of legislation in the world.” The law would… »
Report sparks excitement about Major League Baseball’s return to Montreal
For the fourth straight spring (or what passes for spring here in Quebec), baseball fans will crowd Montreal’s Olympic Stadium Friday and Saturday (it has a roof) to watch a pair of meaningless Spring Training exhibition games. Montreal fans will… »
Health, International, Society
Accused attacker of Quebec City mosque appears in court, changes lawyer
As Quebec City’s Muslim community continues to grapple with the after-effects of the attack of the Jan. 29 attack on their mosque, the accused shooter made a brief appearance in court on Thursday, saying he had changed his lawyer. Alexandre… »
Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum sentenced to a year in prison
He came to the job vowing to fight corruption. On Thursday, Michael Applebaum left a Montreal courtroom in handcuffs, heading to a year in jail and two years of probation for taking bribes before coming to office. Applebaum, 54, took… »
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