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… »
Documentary: Deluged by Data
We have mobile phones, tablets, and apps for things that most people can’t even imagine. Montreal author, columnist, filmmaker Josh Freed tries on a data device However, some people have given themselves over completely to new electronic devices. There’s even… »
Health, Internet, Science & Technology, Society
Public smoking bans rarely change rules at home
After a law was passed banning smoking in public buildings, smokers rarely changed smoking rules in their own homes, according to a new study. A group of smokers were studied one month before a ban was put in place, and… »
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… »
Arts & Entertainment, Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics, Society
China, defence strategy & art: Arctic week in Review
Eye on the Arctic brings you stories and newsmakers from across the North On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this week: – Blogger Mia Bennett takes a two-part… »
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… »
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