In welcome news for Canada’s struggling auto making industry, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada says it will start producing its top-selling Lexus NX SUV in its Cambridge, Ontario plant starting in 2022. The plant will produce both a standard and hybrid… »
Levon Sevunts
Born and raised in Armenia, Levon started his journalistic career in 1990, covering wars and civil strife in the Caucasus and Central Asia.In 1992, after the government in Armenia shut down the TV program he was working for, Levon immigrated to Canada. He learned English and eventually went back to journalism, working first in print and then in broadcasting.
Levon’s journalistic assignments have taken him from the High Arctic to Sahara and the killing fields of Darfur, from the streets of Montreal to the snow-capped mountaintops of Hindu Kush in Afghanistan.
He says, “But best of all, I’ve been privileged to tell the stories of hundreds of people who’ve generously opened up their homes, refugee tents and their hearts to me.”
Environment & Animal Life, Society
No respite from flooding in Quebec and Ontario, but waters begin to recede in New Brunswick
Thousands of people across Quebec and Ontario face flooding for several more days, while floodwaters in New Brunswick have finally begun to recede. Authorities in southeastern Ontario along the border with Quebec are bracing for even more flooding as water… »
Canadian oil worker kidnapped in Nigeria
A Canadian oil worker is among two foreigners and a Nigerian national who were kidnapped by unknown gunmen from an oil rig in Nigeria’s Delta region over the weekend, officials said. Several heavily armed gunmen raided the rig operated by… »
B.C. Indigenous groups get a say in Columbia River Treaty renegotiation
Three Indigenous groups from British Columbia will get a greater say in talks between Ottawa and Washington to modernize a bilateral treaty that coordinates flood control and hydropower generation along the Columbia River, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced Friday.… »
Father of Quebec City mosque shooter urges Trudeau to stop calling his son a terrorist
The father of the man, who went on a shooting spree in a Quebec City mosque two years ago, killing six worshippers and injuring six others, is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and others to stop referring to his son… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Eastern Canada braces for more floods
Several communities in eastern Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick are bracing for more floods as municipal authorities in Ottawa declared a state of emergency, while across the Ottawa River in Quebec officials are warning of a possible dam failure. Ottawa… »
UN agency asks for international support to fight Ebola
As the Democratic Republic of Congo grapples with the second largest ever Ebola outbreak, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is appealing to Canada and other donors to step up their contributions to help efforts to stop the deadly virus… »
Canada issues muted criticism of Saudi mass beheading
Canada is “very concerned” by Saudi Arabia’s mass beheading of 37 citizens, Global Affairs Canada said Wednesday, but officials in Ottawa stopped short of condemning the execution described as “shocking” and “abhorrent” by the United Nations’ top human rights official. “Canada… »
Environment & Animal Life, Politics
Canada bans all industrial activity in marine protected areas
The federal government is adopting a total ban on oil and gas activities, mining as well as waste dumping and bottom trawling in all of Canada’s marine protected areas, Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced Thursday. Wilkinson announced the new standards… »
Armenian genocide is ‘a dark chapter in human history,’ says Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute to the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey as thousands of people gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday and then marched through the streets of the capital to mark… »
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