Family violence accounts for 26% of all violent crimes reported to police in 2011, according to Canada’s statistical agency Statistics Canada. Of the nearly 95,000 victims of family violence, almost half were in a current or previous spousal relationship with the accused,… »
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
‘Fear of a Black Nation’, new book on Black activism and 1960s Montreal
In the 1960s, the city of Montreal became a focus for Black Power and the Caribbean left according to a just released new book by David Austin. “Montreal had played an important, significant… historical role within the Black Diaspora in… »
Environment & Animal Life, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
Flood zone development in Alberta was a mistake, says former commission head
The former head of a flood mitigation commission in the western Canadian province of Alberta says new development should not have been allowed to spring up in the flood zones. George Groeneveld, who chaired the flood mitigation committee and report, after… »
La fête de la Saint-Jean – long holiday weekend in Canadian province of Quebec
The long holiday weekend in the Canadian province of Quebec is wrapping up Monday (June 24) with a parade and a giant outdoor concert. The Fête de la Saint–Jean (St John the Baptist holiday) has been celebrated in what is now… »
Politics Today – June 23, 2013
On this edition of Politics Today RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda focuses on the surprise early adjournment in the House of Commons before the summer break, and some of the party statements before MPs left this past week. Wojtek talks about the… »
Arts & Entertainment, Economy, Society
Sobering report card on Canadian documentary filmmaking
A new study by the Documentary Organisation of Canada (DOC) concludes documentary filmmaking in Canada is in decline. Less funding and a change away from one-off or feature length documentaries to documentary series foreshadow more problems. In its report “Getting… »
Canada FM reversal: Iranian election no longer ‘meaningless’
A week ago Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird called the Iranian election “effectively meaningless”, now in an open letter to Iranians he congratulated Iranians on the result and offered to support their demands for change. In his June 15,… »
New archive of sad legacy of Canada’s Aboriginal residential schools
The University of Manitoba has been chosen to be the home of the National Research Centre on Residential Schools. The official signing ceremony marking the decision by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was held at the university Friday, June 21, on… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Sour gas pipeline rupture forces evacuation, as flooding continues in Alberta
A sour gas pipeline rupture has caused a release of H2S in the Town of Turner Valley in the western prairie province of Alberta provoking an emergency alert by authorities, and the evacuation of people because of the gas leak.… »
Canadians’ record household debt-to-income ratio, marginally lower
The government data agency Statistics Canada reported Thursday (June 20) that Canadians’ household debt to income ratio had lowered for the second consecutive quarter. In a financial note on its website Canada’s largest bank RBC calls the change “a second… »
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