Canadian media Thursday (July 25) were reporting that Quebec provincial police were raiding the offices of the railway company involved in the Lac-Mégantic train disaster. According to Sun News a number of police cruisers were seen outside the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic… »
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
Canada’s provincial premiers focus on indigenous issues on first day
Premiers of Canada’s 10 provinces and three territories started a three-day First Ministers Conference with a focus on indigenous issues on Wednesday (July 24). Premiers met with indigenous representatives to discuss their concerns. Although two premiers were not present, the… »
Canada’s new cabinet ministers record video clip introductions
As part of last week’s cabinet shuffle in Canada, a number of cabinet ministers recorded video messages on YouTube. Standing in front of a blue background with the words “New Faces, Experienced Hands” the ministers expressed their happiness to be… »
Government employee suspended for revealing targets on benefit cuts
A federal government investigator was suspended for leaking documents showing investigators had to meet quotas of $485,000 each year in recovering employment insurance benefits from unemployed claimants. Sylvie Therrien was suspended without pay in May. Reports of the suspension came… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics
‘Salmon Confidential’ documentary raises disturbing questions about farmed salmon
Documentary filmmaker Twyla Roscovich thought she was just going to make a short 10 minute video on diseased salmon for a marine biologist she knew. She ended up producing a gripping 70 minute eye-opening feature documentary. Salmon Confidential follows Dr… »
International, Politics, Society
Redefining Canadian identity? Canada and the New Colonialism
activehistory.ca a website whose goal is to connect Canadian historians to a wider public has published an article which suggests “the Canadian government… [has] sought to align Canada with and remind Canadians of our ties to the United Kingdom and the… »
Canadian government agrees to diplomats’ offer of binding arbitration
Update July 26 – Talks to start binding arbitration fall apart, see details here July 23 – The Canadian government has agreed to binding arbitration with its striking diplomats, according to a statement released by federal cabinet minister Tony Clement.… »
Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer says she’s not getting requested government information
Sonia L’Heureux, Canada’s interim Parliamentary Budget Officer, says Canadian government departments and agencies have once again failed to provide requested information so that she can do an analysis into the 2012 federal budget. July 19th was the second deadline the… »
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons unblocks gay, lesbian website DailyXtra.com
The popular pan-Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons has stopped blocking a gay and lesbian news website from its free in-store Wi-Fi networks. The decision came last week after an online backlash Friday after it was reported that the chain restricted customers from… »
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Politics Today – July 7, 2013
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda focused on the ministerial resignations ahead of a Canadian cabinet shuffle. In particular, the stepping down of Senator Marjory LeBreton as the Leader of the Government in Canada’s upper chamber, the… »
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