For two days in a row, Canada’s Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney has repeated the Canadian government’s position that it “is not sitting on the sidelines” in fighting terrorism at home or abroad. On Monday, the Minister was before a… »
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
Unacceptable errors, lack of professionalism by military handling suicide investigations, commission report
A Military Police Complaints Commission report released on Tuesday (March 10) on investigations into the suicide of Canadian Cpl. Stuart Langridge details a list of errors and failures by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service. This included a decision to… »
International, Politics, Society
Canadian soldier dead, three injured in ‘friendly fire’ incident in Iraq
As late as Monday (March 9) there was still confusion about what happened this past Friday when a Canadian Special Forces soldier, Sgt Andrew Joseph Doiron was killed, and three other Canadian soldiers injured, in a “friendly fire” incident in… »
Economy, Environment & Animal Life, Politics
Another train derailment in Canada, 35 rail cars carrying oil go off tracks
First Nation Indigenous leaders are voicing concern after another train derailment in the northern part of the Canadian province of Ontario on Saturday (March 7). The derailment is near the community of Gogama. More than 30 rail cars carrying crude… »
Politics Today – March 8, 2015
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda reports on the latest major legislative announcement, this time tough new crime legislation, to be made by Prime Minister Stephen Harper outside of the House of Commons. He also reports on… »
Mohamed Fahmy: How Al Jazeera, my employer, failed me in Egyptian court
Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who was the Cairo bureau chief for Al Jazeera’s English-language network then jailed for “broadcasting false news” and sentenced to seven years in prison, has written an open letter criticizing his employer. Published in the Friday… »
International, Politics, Society
Shooter’s video before killing soldier, going on Parliament Hill, released by police
The head of Canada’s national police force, the RCMP, made public the cellphone video recorded by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau before he shot and killed a soldier at the National War Memorial, and then stormed onto Parliament Hill and was shot by security… »
Canada’s job quality sinks to record low, low-paying jobs becoming the norm, says bank report
Job quality in Canada is now at a record low and “more structural than cyclical in nature”, according to a new report released Thursday (March 5) by the Canadian bank, CIBC. The report found “the number of low-paying jobs has risen… »
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Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister on military, humanitarian operations in Iraq
Canada’s new Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson emphasized Canada’s efforts to counter the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on his first official trip to to France, Iraq, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, In a telephone… »
Environment & Animal Life, Health
Port Vancouver fire raises health concerns, evacuations
Hundreds of people were told to stay indoors in the downtown core of Canada`s Pacific coast city of Vancouver on Wednesday (March 3) as a four-alarm fire blazed in the Port of Vancouver. As the fire smoldered the next day, health… »
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