After almost nine years of negotiations, Canada and South Korea signed a free trade agreement on Monday (September 22) in Ottawa. In a joint declaration Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye called the agreement “an… »
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, International, Politics
Canadians join demonstrators worldwide for People’s Climate March
Thousands demonstrated in major Canadian cities on Sunday (September 21) as thousands more demonstrated worldwide as part of the People’s Climate March ahead of the UN Climate Summit in New York City Tuesday. Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver were some of… »
Politics Today – September 21, 2014
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on the visit to Ottawa of Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, on Canada’s involvement in a military advisory force in Iraq, a criminal trial involving a Canadian senator, and the decision… »
Indigenous, International, Politics, Society
More controversy, demonstrations, as Canadian Museum for Human Rights opens
Even before opening its doors on Friday (September 19) the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has been dogged by controversy. Ukrainian Canadians, Palestinians, and Canada’s Indigenous people are among those criticizing the museum. As the official ceremony began, Indigenous First Nations… »
Emotional plea for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women
Canada’s Official Opposition NDP party, using a procedural manoeuvre forced a debate on Friday (September 19) in the House of Commons on the need for a national inquiry into 1200 missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The Conservative government… »
Economy, Health, Politics, Society
Local governments face major financial strain as federal/provincial funding drops
As the Canadian and provincial governments balance their budgets local municipal governments are weighed down by increased costs as more people move to urban areas of the country says a new report by the public policy think tank the Columbia… »
Canadian union puts defeat of Conservative government over support for union-friendly party
Jerry Dias the, president of Canada’s largest private sector union Unifor, says defeating the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper is more important then supporting the union-friendly Official Opposition NDP party, according to an article Thursday (Septemebr 18) by… »
Canadian MP holds government to account, one written question at a time
“Sometimes the tortoise does win the race,” writes Ottawa law professor Adam Dodek in an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail newspaper Thursday (September 18). He describes the work of Liberal opposition Member of Parliament Irwin Cotler who has… »
More Canadian soldier suicides than died in Afghanistan combat
More Canadian soldiers have died of suicide since 2002 than died in combat in Afghanistan, and that shows how badly the Canadian government is handling the mental health of its troops, said the Official Opposition NDP party in the House of… »
Canada and Ukraine, leaders re-affirm co-operation and unity in Ottawa
Canada and Ukraine cemented their commitment to each other in speeches by Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko to a joint sitting of the House of Commons and the Senate in Ottawa on Wednesday (September 17).… »
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