The Toronto Blue Jays’ intoxicating drive for the American League pennant ended Friday night on a blustery and rainy night in Kansas City. The Jays lost 4-3 to the Royals in the sixth game of the American League Championship Series.… »
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.
Blue Jays looking to make more baseball magic
Rest easy everyone. That enormous whoosh of air you might have felt on Wednesday was not an approaching hurricane. Nor was it a giant Nike logo gone bonkers. Wait a sec, that Nike logo is swoosh, not whoosh More likely,… »
Jean Charest says thanks but no thanks to Tory run
Scratch Jean Charest from the Conservative Party’s upcoming leadership race. The former Progressive Conservative leader and long-time Liberal Party premier of Quebec says he’s not interested. Jean Charest says he’s perfectly happy to make his living as a lawyer at… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canadian study finds many men–not just their wives–face the ill effects of the ‘baby blues’
The birth of a child. It’s the stuff of films and sketches, the stuff of laughs and tears of joy. Bill it under the heading, “Blessed Event.” Fathers meet at a so-called Boot Camp for New Dads in Saskatoon in… »
Environment & Animal Life, Immigration & Refugees, Indigenous, Politics, Society
B.C. Supreme Court delivers a life-altering victory for homeless people
Homeless people in Canada won a major legal victory on Wednesday, a decision that maybe–just maybe–will make them a whole lot less invisible, a whole lot less the objects of scorn by so many. Citing Canada’s Charter of Rights and… »
International, Politics, Society
After the vote: Tories move, Mulcair stays, Duceppe exits
Canada’s Conservative Party, swept out of power by the Liberal Party’s tidal wave victory in Monday’s general election, has begun taking steps to replace Stephen Harper as leader. Harper announced Monday that he would step down as leader but will… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Trudeau, Harper meet to begin transition
Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau met Wednesday on Parliament Hill to begin the process of transferring power from Harper’s Conservative Party to Trudeau’s Liberals. Trudeau won a healthy majority government in Monday’s election, relegating the Conservatives to the Official Opposition.… »
Economy, International, Society
Access is granted, ladies and gentleman, please feel free to rejoice
Martin Beauregard and Valerie Burnet are an unlikely pair. Beauregard, a 48-year team leader at a Montreal financial institution, has been confined to a wheelchair all his life. Burnet, 25, is vibrant community activist with a bent to making things… »
A lotto luck will go a very long way
Somebody–or maybe a group of somebodys–is very, very lucky. He, she or them won Saturday night’s all-time record $64-million grand prize in Canada’s Lotto 6/49 draw. So far at least, the winner–or winners–has declined (or, god forbid, doesn’t actually know… »
Turcotte trial enters a new phase
The defence began outlining its case Monday in the first-degree murder trial of a Quebec cardiologist charged in the stabbing deaths of his two small children. Guy Turcotte has admitted to causing the 2009 deaths of Olivier, 5, and Anne-Sophie,… »
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