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Young Canadians showcase trade skills at international competition
Young Canadians did well competing against the best of the world at the 2013 WorldSkills Competition, in Leipzig, Germany, in July. Albertan Michael Scheideman, 21, of Wembley, took home the Gold medal...
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The Link Online #54
This week, with regulars Wojtek and Lynn on vacation, I’m joined by Gilda Salomone and Carmel Kilkenny..Listen A massive wildland fire in British Columbia in the Okanagan in 2003. A new report says...
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Winnipeg artists want to ‘creatively connect’ with beluga whales through music
Two Winnipeg artists have created an underwater sound system that plays music to beluga whales in northern Manitoba. Laura Magnusson and Kaoru Ryan Klatt have already started their summer concerts for...
View ArticleDon’t clamp baby’s umbilical cord too early, McMaster expert
Delaying umbilical cord clamping for 3-5 minutes is better for babies, a new report suggests. The Cochrane study, a meta-analysis of 15 trials with 3,911 women, says delaying cord clamping for as long...
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Irish boy brings bottle tossed in the ocean 8 years ago back to Quebec
A ten-year-old boy who found a bottle on the shore near his home in Ireland is ivisiting Quebec to meet the girls who tossed it in the ocean more than eight years ago. Oisín Millea found the bottle...
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Paleontologists need help from Albertans to discover new fossils unearthed by...
Last month’s floods in Alberta caused a lot of damage. But if there a silver lining to the tragedy, it’s that the recently exposed rocks on riverbanks could increase the chances of finding dinosaur...
View ArticleNew ministers in Harper government supplied with list of ‘enemies’ to avoid
Besides being saluted by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, each new minister sworn in after Monday’s cabinet shuffle also received a ‘transition binder’ which included a list of government’s enemies to be...
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Canada’s parks development gets mixed review from environmental group
While Canada should be praised for creating new parks, it should also be criticized for ’inappropriate’ development that poses serious risk to park ecosystems, says environmental group Canadian Parks...
View ArticleToronto cop posed for cameras as victim of flood
It was supposed to be a joke, but Toronto police were not amused by the behavior of an employee. During a record rainfall on July 8, as stranded passengers waited for rescue on a flooded GO Train, a...
View ArticleCory Monteith’s drug dealer should be questioned, Toronto lawyer
Vancouver police should indentify and question Glee star Cory Monteith’s drug dealer, says Toronto defence lawyer Robb MacDonald. Monteith, 31, was found dead by staff at the Fairmont Pacific Rim, in...
View ArticleHungry aboriginal people used in Canadian nutritional experiments after WW2
Hundreds of malnourished aboriginal children and adults were used in experiments by Canadian federal bureaucrats in the 1940s, says a food historian. “It started with research trips in northern...
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Sick days taken in public service: Veterans Affairs comes first, Foreign...
Canadians can now easily find out the average of sick days taken in public departments. The statistics were quoted by worker’s unions, after the federal government announced it would overhaul the rules...
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Winnipeg teacher finalist for international Twitter award
Before actually jumping on the Twitter bandwagon, physical education teacher Blue Jay Bridge followed the conversations online among teachers for 8 months. But once he started tweeting, he couldn’t be...
View ArticleThe humidex, a Canadian invention that measures how hot it really feels
Ever heard of the humidex? Many Canadians have, especially if they live in the south eastern parts of the country. The term — short for humidity index — is a Canadian innovation. It was first used in...
View ArticleLet’s talk about money… later
About 98 per cent of married couples in Canada think it is important to be on the same page financially as their partner, a new study suggests. Yet 43 per cent of married couples said they had...
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Link between spanking and health problems scientifically established
Grabbing, shoving, slapping or hitting children can lead to several mental health problems later in life, a new Canadian study suggests. The study involved more than 34,000 adults in the United States...
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The LINK Online 55
ListenThis week Gilda Salomone and Carmel Kilkenny join me, Marc Montgomery, to review some of the many stories we’ve covered this week, as Wojtek and Lynn enjoy a hot muggy summer vacation. Oil filled...
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Politics Today – July 21, 2013
Listen On this edition of Politics Today, RCI’s Gilda Salomone focused on a petition by a citizens advocacy group on the fate of the Senate. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) wants Prime Minister...
View ArticleArcade Fire surprises Montreal fans with secret show
World-famous band Arcade Fire started to market their newest album more than a month ago, when letters spelling out the word “Reflektor” were seen on the sides of Montreal buildings. So when music fans...
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‘Children are not for sale’: Canadians walk to end human trafficking
ListenNext Saturday, hundreds of Canadians of all ages will be walking in Toronto to draw attention to the plight of victims of human trafficking in Canada and abroad. “We often think of human...
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Charter of values would ban kippas, turbans, hijabs for public servants in...
After weeks of debate and speculation, the Parti Québécois finally unveiled details about the proposed charter of Quebec values at the national assembly this Tuesday. If adopted, the legislation would...
View ArticleThe real dangers of Halloween
On Halloween day, October 31st, Canadians are supposed to scare and be scared. But, in their desire to look as terrifying as possible, they may be facing real dangers. Costume contact lenses, for...
View ArticleForaging moose drive song birds from national park
The singing birds of Gros Morne National Park, on the west coast of Newfoundland, are not happy these days. An increasing population of foraging moose is changing their forest habitat. The moose are...
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Costumes honoring Canadian astronaut popular on Halloween
Canadians young and old are dressing up as astronauts for Halloween, and the idea came from Canada’s most popular astronaut himself. Last week, Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian commander of the...
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Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain slams Canadian seal hunt ban
A boycott of Canadian seafood products because of seal hunting has attracted support from 42 high-profile US chefs, but certainly not from celebrity chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain. On Monday,...
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Mixed performance behind Canada’s 20th place on gender equality index
ListenA recent report by the World Economic Forum places Canada in 20th position among 136 countries on gender equality. The Global Gender Gap Report has been released since 2006 and looks at four...
View ArticleU.S. Senate confirms Bruce Heyman as ambassador to Canada
Canada will soon have a new U.S. ambassador. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Bruce Heyman, a partner at Goldman Sachs in Chicago. Soon after the announcement, Heyman took to...
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School in Haiti honouring New Brunswick Mountie “a good Canadian story”
Two nuns from Haiti are in Dieppe, New Brunswick to sign an important agreement that will benefit hundreds of young Haitians. Sister Gisèle Chaperon and Sister Kaline Honoré will work at the future...
View ArticleVandals spray-paint swastikas over Parti Québécois posters, in Longueuil, QC
Parti Québécois candidate Bernard Drainville’s office in Longueuil was the target of graffiti. Thursday morning, campaign posters in the former Minister for Democratic Institutions’s riding were...
View ArticleAboriginal children charged $46 extra per room in Quebec hotel
A group of young Innu hockey players and their parents were charged $150 per room, per night for rooms that cost $104 for other customers, at the Château Roberval Hotel, in Lac-St-Jean, Que. The...
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Toronto doctor defends Canadian health-care system in Washington
Dr. Danielle Martin explained the benefits of Canada’s health-care structure at a U.S. Senate committee in Washington on Tuesday. “We do not have uninsured residents. We do not have different qualities...
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Arctic Winter Games a once-in-a-lifetime experience for Inuit kids
64 young athletes from Nunavik, Que. are travelling to Fairbanks, Alaska this weekend to participate in the 21st Arctic Winter Games, an international sports competition for Northern athletes. They...
View ArticleDiamond mine closure is planned years ahead with sustainability in mind
When diamond Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories closes, enormous circular craters will be left in the tundra. But instead of leaving the land and surrounding areas permanently scarred by...
View ArticleOnly one Canadian team at start of National Hockey League playoffs
The Montreal Canadiens will be getting a lot of attention from hockey fans all over the country in the following weeks. They are the only Canadian team to have qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs...
View ArticleCanada’s French and English-speaking co-operatives will now have ‘one voice’
Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada will represent 18 million members of co-ops and mutual associations in Canada. “We will have one voice, we often had two voices,” says Denise Guy, executive director of...
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Brain starts to slow down at 24, study suggests
The analysis of a group of people playing the popular strategy video game Starcraft 2 revealed that age-related brain performance starts declining at 24 years. Researchers at Simon Fraser University...
View ArticleCalgary means booming business for luxury real estate company
The number of luxury properties for sale in Calgary is on the rise, and Sotheby’s International Realty Canada wants to profit from that expanding market. After only two years in the area, the company...
View ArticleQuebec’s Eugenie Bouchard makes tennis history… once again
Quebec native tennis player Eugenie Bouchard is on a roll. On Tuesday she reached her second straight Grand Slam semi-final after defeating Spain’s Carla Suarez Navarro in 3 sets at the French Open....
View ArticleQuebec transgender kids will have summer camp
A new summer camp in Quebec will offer a place for transgender, intersex and gender creative kids to relax, have fun and just be … kids. The Camp of Six Colors was created by Gender Creative Kids...
View ArticleCanadian unemployment rises to 7% in May
The Canadian jobs market has slowed down. Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 7.0% in May, 0.1 percentage point over the previous month, according to Statistics Canada. 25,800 jobs were created, but...
View ArticleBoys more likely to stop smoking than girls
Adolescent boys who smoke are 80 percent more likely to stop the habit than girls, according to a new Canadian study published in a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Girls are...
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‘Dumpcano’ blows smelly smoke over Iqaluit
A fire at Iqaluit’s landfill is blowing so much foul-smelling smoke over the city, that it forced the closing of schools and prompted a health warning. This brave young Iqaluit resident sports a...
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Campaign wants fresh food back in Ontario hospitals
It’s time to bring back fresh food to hospitals in Ontario, says the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU). In May, the OCHU launched the Keep Hospitals Cooking campaign to pressure hospitals to...
View ArticleHidden cash game becomes hidden weed hunt in Vancouver
A game which started with hidden cash in San Francisco evolved to hidden weed in Vancouver. At the end of May, anonymous benefactors hid money in envelopes and then used Twitter to distribute clues...
View ArticleU.S. transgender pianist found ‘salvation’ in Canada
As a male classical pianist, Sara Davis Buechner was praised and honored in her home country. She played with some of the most prestigious orchestras in the United States and was on the brink of a...
View ArticleCanada’s Immigration Minister hangs up when asked about Syrian refugees
Canada’s Immigration Minister Chris Alexander hung up when a radio host asked him some tough questions about Syrian refugees on Wednesday. Carol Off, host of CBC Radio’s As It Happens wanted to know...
View ArticleToronto’s streetcars: brand new and… uncomfortable
Toronto’s new streetcars have many exciting cool features, but plenty of leg room for passengers isn’t one of them. The “Red Rockets”, as they are sometimes called, will only start to roll out at the...
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Changes to Canadian Citizenship Act ‘unconstitutional’, lawyer
A constitutional lawyer will challenge a provision of Bill C-24, introduced by the Conservatives, that would allow the government to strip Canadian citizenship from citizens born in Canada, if they are...
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Just like us: Crickets will dance and brag after winning a fight
Rebrodcast The short video is fascinating. Two male crickets are fighting, biting and pushing each other. After a final blow, the loser sulks away. The winning cricket on the other hand, brags, dances...
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“Morbid Ink” latest trend in Canadian tattoo parlours
Rebroadcast ListenTattoos containing human ashes are the latest trend in parlours in Canada. The practice known as “Morbid Ink” is being requested by customers who want to preserve the memory of...
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