After almost 40 years of existence a respected Canadian non-governmental agency, the North-South Institute (NSI) is closing down, days after Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, informed the institute that it would not receive any funding from the federal… »
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
Does Canada’s new tax relief for small business help, or keep them small?
Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver’s announcement Thursday (September 11) of a new Small Business Job Credit which the government says will save small businesses more than $550 million over the next two years, may also be a disincentive to becoming… »
International, Politics, Society
Foreign and defence ministers questioned about Canada’s military role in Iraq
Canada’s participation in a military advisory role in Iraq was the focus of a House of Commons committee hearing on Tuesday (September 9). The hearing follows last week’s announcement by Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper that Canada was accepting an… »
New Brunswick TV election debate focused on jobs, shale gas
Both the Conservative government of Canada’s Atlantic province of New Brunswick and its Official Opposition Liberal party were under attack on the question of the province’s economy by the three other party leaders who participated in Tuesday (September 9) night’s… »
Canada’s correctional investigator calls for action on prison suicides
In a new report focusing on 30 suicides in federal penitentiaries Canada’s Correctional Investigator Howard Sapers is calling for action to prevent prison suicides which are the leading cause of un-natural death in federal prisons. In the report, he points out that 14… »
Summer hasn’t even ended, and there’s snow in Calgary
Summer hasn’t even ended, but the citizens of the western Canadian prairie city of Calgary are now dealing with the aftermath of… a snowstorm! Hundreds of trees have toppled. Still full of leaves, the wet snow’s impact on trees was… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
Canada: Hearings resume on nuclear waste disposal near Lake Huron
A federal review panel in Canada resumed hearings Tuesday (September 9) into a controversial decision to establish a nuclear waste site near the shore of one of North America’s biggest lakes, Lake Huron. Situated along the Canada- U.S. border between… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Society
‘Beautiful Destruction’ artist/photographer Louis Helbig’s aerial photos of oil/tar sands
For the past six years photographer and artist Louis Helbig has been photographing one of the world’s most controversial and largest industrial projects on earth, the oil/tar sands mining operation in the western Canadian province of Alberta. Shot from his… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, International, Society
Google faces tough questioning by Canada’s broadcast regulator CRTC
A Google representative found himself under intense questioning by Canada’s broadcast regulatory body the CRTC at hearings in Ottawa on Monday (September 8). The CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) is looking at the future of television and how Canadians… »
Economy, International, Politics
Canada, EU agreement on security, energy and Arctic issues
Canada and the European Union (EU) have “concluded negotiations on the Canada-European Union Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA)” an initiative which “sets out a framework for continued dialogue and cooperation between Canada and the European Union”, it was announced Monday (September… »
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