Authorities in Quebec are investigating what may be a reprise of an incident that drew attention around the world last September when an Indigenous woman was mocked as she was dying in a provincial hospital. Two nurses have now been… »
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.
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Former Bank of Canada governor touts pandemic lessons for climate battle
The former governor of the Bank of Canada who later held the same post at the Bank of England is drawing a glass half-full lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic. Mark Carney says the way scientists and governments around the world… »
Economy, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Acquiring Calgary-based Shaw Communications, Rogers adds to its portfolio
The fierce battle for customers raging among Canadian telecommunications companies took another turn today, as the industry makes ready its 5G technology whose presence continues to grow as competition heats up. Toronto-based Rogers Communications, the largest carrier in Canada, announced… »
Demonstrators–once again–take to Montreal’s streets to protest COVID measures
Thousands of people protesting provincial anti-COVID-19 measures rallied in the streets of Montreal on Saturday throwing much of the downtown area–already pockmarked with detours, their ubiquitous orange signs and gaping construction holes–into a state of low-key chaos on a sunny… »
B.C. makes sweeping changes to gendered language across 15 ministries
The B.C. government has made sweeping changes to language used across 15 of its ministries. On Wednesday, an order-in-council replaced more than 600 instances of gendered language in 70 B.C. laws and regulations, including the Family Law Act and Employment… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Facing tough financial times, WestJet cancels order for 737 Boeing Max planes
In another indication that Canada’s beleaguered airline industry won’t be returning to anything resembling normal for a while, WestJet, the country’s second-largest carrier (behind Air Canada), said Thursday it had cancelled orders for 15 Boeing 737 Max aircraft. The company… »
Report shows residential school victims received about $3B in compensation
The cost of compensating victims of Canada’s now-infamous residential school system was over $3 billion, according to a final report released Thursday by Parliament’s Independent Assessment Process Oversight Committee. The committee, which has been overseeing the compensation process since 2007,… »
Canadians join others around the world to remember
Canadians joined others around the world today to mark the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic–a pandemic that has now taken over 2.6 million lives. It began in Canada a year ago in January… »
Military member who sought to ‘arrest’ PM is sentenced to six years in jail
A heavily-armed member of the Canadian military who drove his truck filled with weapons into the main gates of Rideau Hall, the governor general’s residence, last summer before setting out on foot to “arrest” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was sentenced… »
COVID and conditions fuel growing hunger strike at Hamilton prison
Some 50 to 60 prisoners at a jail in Hamilton have begun refusing meals–a hunger strike that advocates say could soon spread to the rest of prison. The hunger strikers want better conditions at the Hamilton Wentworth Detention Centre as… »
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