A candidate who ran on generational and climate change has won the race to become the next premier of the East Coast Province of Nova Scotia. Iain Rankin, who is 37, is a former provincial lands and forests minister. He… »
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.
Immigration & Refugees, International, Society
A Montreal man wrongly arrested is exonerated after spending six days in jail
A PhD student from Guinea who lives and works in Montreal escaped a legal noose that was on the verge of strangling him, his family and his friends for over a week last Friday–ever since he was in the wrong… »
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Canada’s prison chaplains have a (tentative) new labour agreement
Chaplains at federal Canadian prisons across the country have a new labour agreement following what their union, the United Steelworkers, says are years of negotiations. The 180 chaplains, who represent a variety of faiths and spiritual practices, saw their services… »
Facing extradition, Peter Nygard fails to win bail in Winnipeg
It appears, Peter Nygard, the now-disgraced former fashion icon will be spending his final stint in Canada at Headingley Correctional Centre, west of Winnipeg–the town where he grew up and began the business that eventually won him world-wide notoriety. The… »
Christopher Plummer, who won fame on the world stage, is dead at 91
Christopher Plummer, the Canadian classical actor who starred in everything from Shakespeare to musicals and from comedy to drama but won his greatest fame for portraying Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music, has died at 91. Plummer died… »
Job losses in January are most in Canada since the pandemic hit in the spring
As the vaccine rollout lags and COVID-19’s lethal variants–increasingly–make their presence felt, Canada’s economy has taken a hit for the second month in a row. It was a big one. Statistics Canada reported today the economy lost 213,000 jobs in… »
Immigration & Refugees, International, Politics, Society
Report finds Canada, like others, not exempt from ‘Transnational Repression’
A new report from Freedom House, a Washington-based NGO that researches democracy, political freedom and human rights, says Canada is one of many countries whose citizens are being harassed, hounded and–sometimes–violently threatened in their homelands and overseas by hostile regimes.… »
Ontario announces its timetable for in-school back-to-class learning
More and more students in Canada’s most populous province will be returning to their in-school classrooms over the next two weeks. Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced a timetable yesterday, saying students in 13 public health units, including Hamilton and Windsor,… »
Air Canada suspends its Rouge flights indefinitely, as of Monday
Air Canada has suspended all flights on its low-cost Rouge subsidiary, as of Monday. “As a result of our suspension of all flights to the Caribbean and Mexico at the request of the Canadian government, we are again pausing our… »
Health, International, Society
Procurement minister says millions of AstraZenica doses could be coming soon
There may be some good news for disgruntled Canadians exasperated with the country’s lagging COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Canadian Press is reporting today that Canada could get more than one million additional vaccine doses by the end of March. CP’s Mia… »
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