Canada’s Competition Bureau is seeking a court order that would require Google’s Canadian subsidiary to furnish antitrust investigators with internal company records as part of an investigation into whether Google is abusing its dominance of the Internet search market to stifle competition… »
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
‘My job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so,’ says Industry Minister
Canadian Industry Minister James Moore’s remarks about child poverty set off so much criticism that Monday (December 16) the minister apologized on his website and his Twitter account. On Sunday, asked about the high level of child poverty in Canada’s Pacific… »
Minister: Canadian passport not a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card
“While Canadian officials strive to provide the best possible consular assistance to Canadians in all regions of the world, the Government of Canada cannot stress enough that a Canadian passport is not a ‘get out of jail free’ card,” is the… »
Public debate needed says Canada’s postal union president
Canada Post is a public service for Canadians, it has made hundreds of millions in profits, some changes should be made, but that does not justify the massive service cuts to mail delivery and employees announced last week says Denis… »
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Politics Today – December 15, 2013
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on the early start of the holiday break in Canada’s Parliament. He also deals with an incident in a House of Commons committee in which government Members of Parliament forced… »
Live video from Canada’s Senate now being considered
Canada’s upper chamber the Senate has set up a working group to look at live video streaming from the Senate, Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella told journalists in a press conference Friday (December 13). Four senators will be part of the working… »
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Canadian personal debt ratio hits record high
The amount Canadians owe compared to their disposable income rose to an all-time record last quarter, the government agency Statistics Canada reported Friday (December 13). The level of household credit market debt to disposable income increased to 163.7 per cent… »
Committee chair, forced to shut down debate, denounces ‘black shroud of secrecy’
As one opposition Member of Parliament heckled “Here we go..cover it all up”, a House of Commons committee was forced to go into an off record session at the insistence of government MPs who did not want to continue discussions… »
Canadian government sums up achievements as holiday break begins
Two senior government ministers held a press conference Thursday (December 12) in Ottawa to list government achievements in the fall session which ended Tuesday for a six week break.. Canada’s Government House Leader Peter Van Loan, and Denis Lebel, Minister… »
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Canada reviewing corporate social responsibility strategy for extractive sector
The Canadian government launched a review of its “Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Strategy for the Extractive Sector” with a round-table session in Ottawa with civil society organizations on Thursday (December 12). .According to a press release from the office of the… »
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