A U.S.-based conservation group has chosen a site off the Nova Scotia coast to build a retirement home for entertainers who have brought joy to hundreds of thousands at the expense of their own mental and physical health. Ladies and… »
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.
All-female broadcast team set to make history Sunday…and then some!
History will be made Sunday in Canada–by a whisker. Fittingly enough–at least when Canadians are involved–it will take place at a hockey arena…in Calgary, Alberta when the hometown Flames host the Las Vegas Golden Knights. The rink? The Scotiabank Saddledome.… »
Economy, Health, International, Society
Number of COVID-19 cases in Canada continues to grow
Efforts to deal with COVID-19 continue in Canada as the number of cases continues to rise. The latest cases in Ontario are a woman who returned to Kitchener from Italy and a man who returned to Toronto from Iran. Meanwhile.… »
Via Rail joins CN in recalling workers as barricades come down
Via Rail says most of the 1,000 employees it laid off at the height of the rail blockades in support of British Columbia’s Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs’ opposition to the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline running through their territory will be… »
Buddhists sites and temples are vandalized in Montreal
Montreal police have confirmed they are investigating acts of vandalism at Buddhist temples that have left members of the city’s Asian community angry, puzzled and saddened. A volunteer at one of the temples, Louis Le, says he believes the acts… »
Economy, Health, International, Society
New cabinet committee will deal with COVID-19 outbreak
As governments and health officials around the world continue to deal with COVID-19, Canada’s federal government has struck a new cabinet committee to deal with the novel coronavirus outbreak. The announcement comes a day after the number of COVID-19 cases… »
Economy, International, Society
Concerns grow over COVID-19 effect on tourism and small businesses
The Bank of Canada is not the only institution concerned about the ill-effects of COVID-19. Fears are being voiced about the effect COVID-19 will have–and is already having–on Canadian business, especially tourism. CP’s Laura Osman reports that the tourism industry… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Ontario government blinks in showdown with province’s teachers
After months of acrimonious showdown between Ontario’s Conservative government and the province’s teachers–marked by demonstrations, strikes and work-to-rule campaigns–one side has finally blinked. Education Minister Stephen Lecce says the province is ready to lower average high school classes to 23… »
International, Society, Sports
Ayres’s legacy: NHL keeps emergency goalie rule
In a burst of sanity, National Hockey League general managers have decided there will be no change in the protocol that applies to emergency goalies. It stays as it is. Following 42-year-old David Ayres’s sensational leap into the North American… »
Tory leadership race moves forward minus Richard Décarie
The race to lead the Conservative Party, Canada’s Official Opposition, continues to unfold with what appears–so far–to be a minimum of malice, not especially surprising given the announcement of who will succeed Andrew Scheer won’t be made until a leadership… »
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