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Health, International, Society

Invictus champion heralded in hometown North Bay

The 2018 Invictus Games are underway in Australia, and Canada has its first champion with veteran Dave Innes taking the silver in in-door rowing. The 47 year-old, from  North Bay, Ontario, was heralded in his hometown when the news of »

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Toronto electing new mayor and reduced city council

Toronto, Canada’s largest city, is electing a new and smaller city council today, after a controversial campaign. The trouble started when the new premier of the province of Ontario, Doug Ford, elected on June 7, 2018, decided to shrink the »

Health, International

‘Water for Life’ initiative by UNICEF raises millions

For the 26th time, UNICEF will hold a gala in the western city of Calgary to raise money for its “Water for Life” campaign. UNICEF says that it and its partners reached 45 million people with improved water supplies in »

International, Politics, Society

Chronicles of a former Prime Minister

Rt.Hon. Jean Chretien recounts (video below) He entered politics as a young fresh lawyer, and went on to a decades long career, including ten years as Prime Minister of Canada. Imagine you’re invited to a dinner together, and after a »

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Cyber threats to elections examined

Canadians go to the polls in 2019 to elect the federal government, and parliamentary hearings are underway to look at possible online interference. The concern is not so much for the voting system itself. Paper ballots system deemed safer “The »

Economy, Highlights, International, Politics

Canada can’t collect on billion dollar loan to Chrysler

Largest ever write-off of a loan In 2009, the North-American auto industry was in dire straights. Chrysler was planning to shut down its Canadian operation with thousands of jobs of workers and suppliers. The federal government offered $1.1 U.S billion »

International

White Helmets to be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

A Canadian lawyer and former cabinet minister plans to nominate Syria’s White Helmets for the Nobel Peace Prize for their volunteer humanitarian rescue efforts. The 3,000-strong organization says it has saved more than 100,000 civilians during the seven-year civil war. »

Highlights, Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Society

Canada Post- Strikes begin in labour dispute

Canada’s national postal union had begun a series of rotating strikes as they seek a better contract with the public mail delivery service. The union representing about 50,000 workers began a series fo rotating strikes at four cities across Canada »

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Author Rawi Hage: Beirut Hellfire

Award winning author Rawi Hage came to our studios to talk about his new novel, “The Beirut Hellfire Society” with Marc Montgomery. The author of award-winning novels “De Niro’s Game”, “Cockroach”, and “Carnival”, his latest work draws in part on »

Politics

Lockheed Martin selected as preferred designer for Canada’s next generation of warships

The federal government is giving a consortium led by U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin the first crack at inking a contract to design Canada’s $60-billion fleet of next generation warships, officials announced Friday. Government officials say the group’s proposed BAE »