Hundreds of representatives of the Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) have started a three day council meeting, their last before a fusion with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP). The founding convention will be held on the Canadian Labour… »
Wojtek Gwiazda
Wojtek Gwiazda is a veteran award-winning broadcast and print journalist. As one of RCI’s senior host-producers he focused mainly on news and current affairs programming. He has hosted a variety of programmes, including MASALA CANADA, the Indo-Canadian Report, Canada in the World, North Country, and The Music Shop (a Canadian rock music show). Before joining RCI, he worked extensively for Canada’s national public broadcaster CBC radio, as well as for publications such as The Montreal Gazette, Cinema Canada Magazine, and Canadian Business Magazine. He produced a program on the history of Quebec song for Canada’s national French radio service Radio-Canada, and was an on-air music columnist at the service. He retired from RCI in July, 2015 and can be reached at wojtekgwiazdamtl@gmail.com or on Twitter at @WojtekGwiazda
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology
Like a medical doctor, ecology prof explores earth’s health via video clips
Dr Catherine Potvin is an ecology professor at Canada’s McGill University who’s taking her climate-change lessons out of the classroom and onto publicly accessible videos. As director of McGill’s Neotropical Ecology Laboratory she has been studying the forests of Panama… »
Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canadians worried about Internet, new technologies privacy
As many as 66% of Canadians are very concerned by protection of privacy, and 25% are very concerned according to a new poll commissioned by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Even though people are concerned, many do… »
‘Welcome to Canada’ official handbook to assist immigrants
Subtitled “What you should know” the new guide for immigrants in Canada was released this week by Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. The 143-page document covers a wide range of topics from making a telephone call, to healthcare, and… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Society
Looking for poems about class, poverty, and/or resistance
Dr Kendra Coulter is a labour studies professor and she’s on a mission to find poems that will help her students at Canada’s Brock University understand the issues of class, poverty, and resistance. Her current research focuses on retail work… »
Prita Chhabra to premiere new video at 13th Reel World Film Festival
Montreal’s award-winning singer Prita Chhabra will be premiering her Bollywood inspired music video “Aaja (Come To My Heart) at the Reel World Film Festival in Toronto. According to a press release, the video “reflects a softer side of the Montreal… »
Canada’s 2013 federal budget: Many goals, fewer details
Two years away from an election, Canada’s ruling Conservative government tabled a new federal budget Thursday (March 21) appealing to many different sectors of Canadian society. A budget critics say is not always clear on how goals would be achieved.… »
On second last day on job, Parliamentary Budget Officer talks to RCI
“Nobody here thinks they’re a hero…we have a job to do to support parliament,” says Kevin Page, Canada’s first Parliamentary Budget Officer, in an interview with RCI. For five years the veteran public servant has had one goal: to make sure… »
Arts & Entertainment, Politics, Society
Politics, art, ideas at centre of new Spur Festival
Helen Walsh believes Canadians are hungry for ideas, and want to share them. And to make that happen she founded the Spur Festival to let people share conversations. Sponsored by the Literary Review of Canada (which she co-publishes) and Diaspora Dialogues,… »
Librarians warned of loyalty duty to Canada’s government, high risk activities
Canada’s government librarians and archivists are being warned of ‘high risk’ activities such as going to a classroom, attending a conference. or speaking in public meetings about what they do.They are also being reminded of their “duty of loyalty” to… »
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