After Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced $1.9 billion in funding for Indigenous First Nation education February 7, lawyer Judith Rae thought she would check out the impact of the funding. She specializes in First Nation legal issues at the… »
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, Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
North American Leaders’ Summit – hopes and intentions
United in promoting their trade alliance and relationship, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama, and Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto all praised the impact of the 20-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and suggested more benefits… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, Politics
Government offers land reserved for reindeer grazing in Canada’s North for oil, gas exploration
Land reserved for reindeer grazing in Canada’s North has instead been offered up by the Canadian government for oil and gas exploration, according to a Canadian Press report by journalist Steve Rennie. Companies interested in obtaining exploration rights in the Mackenzie… »
International, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Canada’s Citizen Lab wins U.S. award for work on Internet security, human rights
The Citizen Lab, an independent Internet monitoring research laboratory based at the University of Toronto, has become the first Canadian winner of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Leadership. The announcement of the $1 million award was made Wednesday (February… »
Arts & Entertainment, Indigenous
A Tribe Called Red on track with Juno music award nominations
Ottawa electronic and DJ collective A Tribe Called Red continues its successful alternative career path with two nominations for Canada’s prestigious Juno music awards: Electronic Album of the Year and Breakthrough Group of the Year. Known for mixing Indigenous First Nation… »
Judge grants union injunction in battle over right to negotiate with province of Alberta
An attempt by the Canadian province of Alberta to overturn the normal process of negotiation was blocked February 14, when a judge granted the union representing the government employees an injunction. In his ruling blocking the implementation of Bill 46… »
International, Politics, Society
Canada’s embassy in Ukraine closed, Toronto Ukrainians protest violence
Hundreds of people gathered in Canada’s largest city Toronto Tuesday night (February 18) in front of the Ukrainian consulate to call for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Ukraine. Draped in the yellow and blue Ukrainian flag, they held candles,… »
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois – 32nd edition of Quebec film festival
Created in 1982 to celebrate film production in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec, the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois film festival is back with its 32nd annual edition on Thursday (February 20). “Between the first reel and the last, we… »
Arts & Entertainment, International
Internationally celebrated writer Mavis Gallant dead at 91
Internationally celebrated Canadian writer Mavis Gallant died Tuesday morning (February 18) in Paris, where she made her home since 1951. She was 91. She was “by far the most cosmopolitan of our writers” wrote author and editor Robert Fulford in… »
Lost sunken villages reappear through photo project
At first artist and aerial photographer Louis Helbig did not understand what he was seeing under the water surface as he flew over a lake that had been created as part of the lock/canal system of the St Lawrence Seaway… »
The world in pictures
Canada in pictures
