RCI | English : The Link
by RCI | English
The Link podcast is a brief summary of just some of the many stories and interviews presented during the week with discussion on the stories along with occasional special guests, and features which are often about aspects of life in Canada.
Episodes
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The LINK Online, Mar. 13,14,15, 2020
Your hosts, Vincenzo, Terry, Marc. (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20200313-WEE15 Air pollution- a silent pandemic Milan's Duomo Cathedral in Italy is barely visible through smog that hovers over the city on Dec. 29. 2015. The lack of rain and wind has brought pollution in Italy's...
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The LINK Online Feb 28,29; Mar 01, 2020
Your hosts today, Vincenzo, Terry, and Marc ( video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20200228-WEE15 Canadian Space Agency invests in moon exploration The control center at the Canadian Space Agency in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, February 28, 2019. (Reuters/Christinne Muschi) The Canadian Space...
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The LINK Online, Feb. 20,21,22, 2020
Your hosts, Levon, Vincenzo, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20200221-WEE15 Trudeau asks for patience as rail blockades continue but offers no clear plan Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stands during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on…
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The LINK Online Feb 14.15.16, 2020
Your hosts today, Levon Sevunts, Vincenzo Morello,Marc Montgomery (video of show at bottom ListenEN_The_Link-20200214-WEE15 Canada plans to support ban on heavy fuel oil in Arctic shipping The community of Arctic Bay, Nvt., is seen on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. The federal government plans to…
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The LINK Online, Feb. 7,8,9, 2020
Your hosts, Levon, Vincenzo, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20200207-WEE15 Ottawa set to dispatch second plane to Wuhan ‘to bring every Canadian home’ Megan Millward, her husband Lie Zhang and their two children on board an evacuation flight from Wuhan, China. Two planes...
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The Link Online, Jan. 29, 30, 31, 2020
Your hosts Levon, Marc, and newcomer Vincenzo Morello (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20200131-WEE15 Canada chartered passenger plane to repatriate Canadians from Wuhan Emily Tjandra, left, and her son Wyatt Duplessis, 15, pose for a photo in their home in Wuhan, China in this handout...
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The LINK Online, Jan 24.25.26, 2020
Your hosts, Levon, Terry, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20200124-WEE15 According to Stephen Cornish who leads one of Canada's most recognized environmental and conservation NGO's, the root cause of many of the world's conflicts and migrations can be traced in some form back...
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The LINK Online Jan. 17,18,19, 2020
Your hosts, Terry, Levon, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20200117-WEE15 Diplomatic Dispatch series Canadian flags and the Parliament building's Victory and Peace Tower (iSTock) A new podcast series is being created with several episodes already online. Through one-on-one...
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The LINK Online Jan 10,11,12, 2020
Your hosts, Terry, Levon, Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20200110-WEE15 Intelligence suggests Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iran, says Trudeau Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. (Sean...
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The LINK Online, Dec 20,21,22, 2019
Your hosts Terry, Levon, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20191220-WEE15 Refugee advocacy group sounds the alarm on crisis in Mali Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) soldiers drive along women and children during the Operation Barkhane in Ndaki, Mali, July 29, 2019. (Benoit...
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The LINK Online, Dec. 13,14,15, 2019
Your hosts are Terry, Levon, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20191213-WEE15 Is it time for Canada to rethink policy regarding China? Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen during the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing in May…
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The LINK Online, Dec. 6,7,8, 2019
Your hosts, Terry, Levon, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20191206-WEE15 GTA immigrants have trouble climbing corporate ladder: report Paulette Senior, the president and CEO of the Canadian Women's Foundation, poses for a photograph in Toronto on Monday, Apr. 29, 2019. A new...
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The LINK Online, Nov 29, 30, Dec. 1, 2019
Your hosts, Terry, Levon, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20191129-WEE15 Former Canadian spy chief calls for ‘clear eyed’ national security discussion Richard Fadden, National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, appears at Senate national security and defence committee in...
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The LINK Online, Nov 22, 23,24, 2019
Your hosts, Terry, Levon, Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20191122-WEE15 Trudeau taps former top diplomat to deal with discontent in Western Canada Newly named Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Chrystia Freeland speaks following the swearing-in of…
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The LINK Online Nov 15.16.17, 2019
Your hosts, Terry and Marc ListenEN_The_Link-20191115-WEE15 Canada welcomes genocide lawsuit against Myanmar, says Freeland Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, arrive at the National Press Theatre to make…
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The LINK Online, Nov. 8,9,10, 2019
Your hosts, Terry, Levon, Marc (video of show at bottom) The Link: World scientists on climate emergency, Canadian aid orphans in Africa, new book on a tragically deadly victory in WWIIEN_The_Link-20191108-WEE15 Scientists around the world issue climate emergency warning Thousands of people…
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The LINK Online, Nov 1,2.3
your hosts Levon, Mathiew, Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20191101-WEE15 Quebec to add 'values' test for new immigrants Premier François Legault, left, asked Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette to come up with the values test. (Ivanoh Demers/Radio-Canada) The mostly...
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The LINK Online, Oct.25,26,27,
Your hosts: Levon, Lynn, Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20191025-WEE15 Arab World Festival-Montreal Emily Awad, Director of Communications for the festival joins us via skype This weekend marks the start of the 20th year for the Arab World Festival,/ Festival du Monde Arabe…
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The LINK Online, Oct 18.19.20, 2019
Your hosts Lynn, Terry, Marc (video of show at bottom) the link- political opinion polls, obese people and medical care, false fish- what you pay for is not what you getEN_The_Link-20191018-WEE15 Canada's election and political opinion polls: Can they influence voters? Voter survey for upcoming...
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The LINK Online, Oct.11,12,13, 2019
Your hosts, Lynn, Marc, with guest Stephane Parent, host of RCI's French language programme (video of show at bottom) The Link: this week talks about the Canadian election leader's debate, a new much simpler, faster early detection method for Alzheimers, and a long time Canadian TV show that…
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The LINK Online, Sep 27.28.29, 2019
Your hosts Terry, Levon, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190927-WEE15 Major research projects to understand climate change effects on the Arctic The German icebreaker and research vessel Polarstern is pictured at the port of Tromso, Norway Sept. 18, 2019. (Rune Stoltz...
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The LINK Online, Sept. 20,21,22, 2019
Your hosts, Marie-Claude, Levon, Matt and Marc (video of show at bottom) The Link show: Liberal leader Justin Trudeau apologising for a racist incident in his past, Analysis of attacks on Saudi oil facilities, Discovery of the first interstellar comet. Marie-Claude leaving...
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The LINK Online Sept. 13, 14, 15, 2019
Your hosts, Levon, Mathiew, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190913-WEE15 Expert warns of possible Russian disinformation campaign in Canada's election Canada heads into a general election this October. A new study warns that Ottawa should be ready to counter a possible...
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The LINK Online, Sept 6,7,8, 2019
Your hosts Terry, Levon, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190906-WEE15 Canada's general election looms-issues Federal party leaders - including, from left, the Greens' Elizabeth May, Conservative Andrew Scheer, Liberal Justin Trudeau and New Democrat Jagmeet Singh - face an...
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The LINK Online: Aug 29,30,31, 2019
Your hosts, Terry, Levon, and Marc (video of show at bottom). All stories are edited from longer versions of the full stories which can be heard in the highlights section. ListenEN_The_Link-20190830-WEE15 Conservative opposition leader accuses governing Liberals of scare tactics Federal...
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The LINK Online Aug. 23, 24, 26, 2019
Your hosts today: Levon Sevunts, Terry Haig, Stéphane Parent and Marie-Claude Simard (Video of show at the bottom). ListenEN_The_Link-20190823-WEE15 G7 leaders gather in Biarritz, France for what could be another chaotic summit The faces of the G7 leaders are seen reproduced by local Basque sand...
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The LINK Online Aug, 9-10-11
Your hosts, Marie-Claude, Terry, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190809-WEE15 Anniversary of the atomic bomb attacks to end WWII In this Aug. 9, 1945 file photo, a mushroom cloud rises moments after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, southern Japan. On two days in...
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The LINK Online, Jul 5.6.7, 2019 : recycling, music, cost of living
Your hosts, Lynn, Terry and Marc (Note the show will be taking a break during the summer- other interesting subjects will be available on the weekends; Video of this week's show at bottom. As always, full versions of the show stories are available in the highlights section)...
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The LINK Online June 28, 29, 30, 2019
Your hosts today. Lynn Desjardins, Levon Sevunts, Terry Haig and Marie-Claude Simard (listen or watch video of show at the bottom) UN expert warns of a coming 'climate apartheid' A man walks through land in Bhola, Bangladesh where his home was washed away by rising water. Scientists project seas...
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The LINK Online, June 21,22,23, 2019
Your hosts today. Levon, Mathiew, Marie-Claude, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190621-WEE15 IRAN- U.S. tensions- escalation narrowly avoided A U.S. Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle similar to the one shown, has been shot down over the Strait of...
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The LINK Online, June 14, 15, 16, 2019
Your hosts, Levon, Marie-Claude, Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190614-WEE15 Hong Kong's massive protest against a proposed extradition law with China Protesters on the streets again last night in central Hong Kong. (via CBC) In the past few days, hundreds of thousands of Hong...
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The LINK Online, June 7, 8, 9, 2019
Your hosts: Lynn, Marie-Claude, Levon, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190607-WEE15 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry: final report Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the media at the Women Deliver Conference in Vancouver, Tuesday, June 4, 2019....
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The LINK Online -special- May 31, Jun 1,2, 2019
This week a special edition as the Link was on site on Thursday at the Montreal "Salon de l"Immigration- Immigration Expo" in Montreal (video of show at bottom) Hosts were Levon and Marc. along with several special guests. (audio version below, video of show at bottom)...
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The LINK Online, May 24,25,26, 2019
ListenEN_The_Link-20190524-WEE15 Your hosts, Lynn, Levon, Marie Claude, and Marc, with guest Eilis Quinn (Video of show at bottom) Death in the Arctic- Image from the special report on a death of a young person in the Arctic (Eye on the Arctic) Eilis Quinn, joins us to talk about a very troubling...
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The LINK Online, May 17, 18, 19, 2019
Your hosts: Levon, Lynn, Marie-Claude (at the river's edge) and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190517-WEE15 Climate change and the kelp forests of the Arctic A kelp forest off the coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic (Frithjof Kupper) It seems that climate...
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The LINK Online, May 10,11,12, 2019
Your hosts Terry, Lynn, Marie-Claude, Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190510-WEE15 Dire warning from U.N. on survival of species, and humans Atlantic bluefin tuna are corralled by fishing nets off the coast of Barbate, Cadiz province, southern Spain. Two studies by The new U.N...
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The LINK Online, May 3, 4, 5, 2019
Your hosts: Lynn, Levon, Marie-Claude and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190503-WEE15 Could this beluga be a trained spy? A beluga whale that was freed from a mysterious harness by Norwegian fishermen and fishery officials off the coast of northern Norway last week is in no...
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The LINK Online Apr. 26,27,28, 2019
Your hosts, Marie-Claude, Levon, Lynn, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190426-WEE15 United Nations asks for international support to fight Ebola A health worker wearing Ebola protection gear, walks before entering the Biosecure Emergency Care Unit (CUBE) at the ALIMA (The...
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The LINK Online April 19, 20, 21, 2019
Your hosts, Terry, Marie-Claude, Lynn, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190419-WEE15 Court case launched against "smart city" over privacy The Quayside project would create housing, heated sidewalks, autonomous vehicle infrastructure and data-collecting sensors on five...
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The LINK Online: April 12, 13, 14, 2019
Your hosts: Lynn, Levon, Marie-Claude, Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190412-WEE15 Research needed into ship noise effects on Narwhals in Nunavut FILE- In this August 2005 file photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a pod of narwhals surfaces in...
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The LINK ONLINE Apr. 5, 6, 7, 2019
Your hosts: Lynn, Levon, Marie-Claude, and Marc (Video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190405-WEE15 The scandal within the ruling Liberal Party government, gets another jolt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing to Liberal party members that he has removed tow high-ranking women from...
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The LINK Online, March 29, 30, 31, 2019
Your hosts Lynn Desjardins, Levon Sevunts and Terry Haig. (Video of show at bottom) ListenEN_The_Link-20190329-WEE15 UN asks Canada to extend peacekeeping mission in Mali Canadian infantry and medical personnel disembark from a Chinook helicopter as they take part in a medical evacuation...
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The LINK Online, March 22, 23, 24, 2019
Your hosts: Lynn Desjardins, Levon Sevunts and Terry Haig. (Video of show at bottom.) ListenEN_The_Link-20190322-WEE15 Public hearing on oil and gas development in eastern Arctic wrap up in Iqaluit A polar bear stands on a ice flow in Baffin Bay above the arctic circle as seen from the Canadian...
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The LINK Online, Mar. 15,16,17, 2019
Your hosts, Terry, Lynn, Marie-Claude, Marc (Video of show at bottom. Also archived on the Radio Canada Int'l Facebook page) ListenEN_The_Link-20190315-WEE15 U.N. report on environment: humanity is at a crossroads Smog and dust like that seen in New Delhi on Nov. 10, 2017 are among the many…
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The LINK Online, Mar. 8-9-10, 2019
Your hosts Lynn, Terry, Marie-Claude, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_Interview_1-20190308-WIE10 Canada's Prime Minister insists "no inappropriate pressure" in SNC Lavalin case Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denied charges by the former attorney general that she was persistently and...
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The LINK Online, March 1,2,3, 2019
Your hosts, Lynn, Terry, Marie-Claude and Marc (Video of show at bottom) ListenEN_Interview_1-20190301-WIE10 A scandal is shaking Canada's federal political landscape and the governing Liberal party of Justin Trudeau Former Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould said she faced inappropriate…
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The LINK Online, Feb 22,23,24 2019
Today a special programme to mark Black History Month in Canada Your hosts, Lynn and Marc, with special guests Claire-Anse Saint-Eloi- assistant coordinator for the round table on Black History Month; Deborah Forde- Montreal Black History Month Laureate, and Pat Dillon-Moore- spokesperson for...
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The LINK Online, Feb. 15,16,17
Your hosts: Levon, Terry, Marie-Claude, Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_Interview_1-20190215-WIE10 Legendary British rock star Sting performs in solidarity with General Motors workers in Oshawa Sting and the cast of his musical "The Last Ship" perform in support of General Motors workers…
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The LINK Online, Feb. 8,9,10
Your hosts, Lynn, Marie-Claude, Terry, and Marc (video of show at bottom) ListenEN_Interview_1-20190208-WIE10 Europe's Marine Protected Areas allow heavy commercial fishing A new study shows there is actually 38% more large commercial fishing activity inside Europe's protected zones than outside....
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The LINK Online, Feb., 1,2,3, 2019.
Your hosts Lynn, Levon, Marie-Claude, Marc(video of show at bottom) ListenEN_Interview_1-20190201-WIE10 Special Guest Wei Wu from RCI's Chinese section leads off the show with a look at the upcoming Chinese New Year Ottawa unveils new rules to combat election interference Minister of Democratic...
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The Link podcast is a brief summary of just some of the many stories and interviews presented during the week with discussion on the stories along with occasional special guests, and features which are often about aspects of life in Canada.
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