Growing trend with moving Montrealers: leaving their chickens behind
Every week in Montreal, hens and roosters are being abandoned by owners unable to take care of them, says the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). Raising chickens for fresh...
View ArticleOne in six Canadians relies solely on online content for entertainment
About 16 per cent of Canadian adults no longer watch any conventional TV, preferring to stream online content, a new poll suggests. The research, done by ComScore and commissioned by Google, found that...
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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...
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