On Monday (December 1) Canada’s Official Opposition NDP Party and the Liberal opposition party called on Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino to resign. The minister and his ministry have been under attack for weeks for not sufficiently helping Canada’s military… »
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
Economy, International, Politics, Society
Business group wants to take ‘temporary’ out of Temporary Foreign Workers Program
A Canadian group representing small business owners is calling for changes in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program to “address critical shortages for small businesses while providing a clear path to permanent residence for foreign workers.” “Canada was built by people… »
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Politics Today – November 30, 2014
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on the new infrastructure funding announced by Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, on the Fall Report of the Auditor General of Canada on government spending, and on the closure this… »
More opposition criticisms of government’s handling of veterans’ mental health needs
Opposition parties once again hammered away at Canada’s ruling Conservative government in the House of Commons on Thursday (November 27) over the issue of military veterans’ health. Two days after the Auditor General reported that one of every five Canadian… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
Five years after murder of Mariano Abarca Roblero, Canada, Mexico receive calls for justice
Five years after the murder of Mariano Abarca Roblero, an opponent of the mining operations of the Canadian company Blackfire Exploration Ltd, his family, and numerous organizations, including the Mexican Network of Communities Affected by Mining (REMA), have called on ministers… »
Municipal employees strike over pension plan changes in province of Quebec
Municipal services across the Canadian province of Quebec were disrupted on Wednesday (November 26) as government employees walked out on a one day strike to protest the provincial government’s intention to change their pension plans. At the port of Montreal,… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Politics, Society
Photographer Michelle Siu’s documentation of an Indigenous community displaced by man-made flood ‘Unnatural Disaster’
It wasn’t the first time residents of the Indigenous First Nation community near Lake St Martin were told to evacuate. Some thought it might be overnight, or a few days. Three years later residents have still not been able to… »
Respected women’s health organization shuts down, after Canadian government budget cut
The respected and much consulted Canadian Women’s Health Network (CWHN) has suspended its activities after failing to find alternate funding after the Canadian government suddenly cut financial support in 2013. In a statement released November 21, the board of directors… »
Ferguson rallies planned in Toronto, elsewhere in Canada, as well as U.S.
A rally on Tuesday (November 25) in Toronto will protest not only the Michael Brown verdict in Ferguson, Missouri, but also police brutality including the shooting in Toronto of Jermaine Carby September 25. Organizers are asking protestors to wear black… »
Canada’s Auditor General: Long waits for veterans’ mental health services jeopardize recovery
One of every five Canadian veterans suffering from a mental illness has to wait more than eight months before the government approves help, and such delays “may jeopardize a veteran’s stabilization and/or recovery”, according to the Auditor General of Canada… »
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