It’s been an unusually cold winter in the southern parts of central and eastern Canada. This has meant particular troubles for the number of ferryboats traversing the Gulf of St Lawrence. Even in Lake Ontario, the ice build-up trapped the… »
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Snowmobile deaths increased, decreased
Deaths associated with snowmobiles are up sharply in the province of Quebec, but down in the neighbouring province of Ontario. Three people died in unrelated accidents in Quebec on Saturday bringing the total there to 26 so far this season,… »
Arts & Entertainment, International, Society
RCI 70th anniversary: A humourous take on RCI’s 15th anniversary in 1960
Max Ferguson’s broadcasting career began just a year after RCI or the CBC International Service as it was then known, went on the air. As a junior announcer on the domestic public service (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), he found shortly after… »
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… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Internet, Science & Technology
Arctic ice cover- heading for a new low?
While southern parts of central and eastern Canada have been dealing with extreme Arctic temperatures, freezing most of the vast Great Lakes, it certainly hasn’t been the case on the west coast, or western Arctic. Figures released by the Colorado-based… »
Anti-terror bill excessive, says privacy watchdog
Canada’s privacy watchdog says the government’s proposed law to counter terrorism is “clearly excessive” and puts Canadians’ personal information at risk. Daniel Therrien was speaking before the House of Commons public safety committee which is taking testimony on Bill C-51.… »
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RCI 70th anniversary: (Film) – 21st anniversary with former RCI journalist
On the occasion of its 21st anniversary, innovative half-hour television show Take 30 invited one of its producers, a former host with RCI to talk about the broadcaster. Begun in 1962, by 1966 Take 30 had evolved into an interesting… »
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… »
Arts & Entertainment, Highlights, International, Society
Hi-Yo Silver! The passing of “Tonto”
On March 5, 1980, “Tonto” died in California from complications of stroke he had suffered in 1976. He was 67. From 1949 to 1957 and for years afterward in re-runs, literally millions of young TV viewers across North America knew… »
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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