Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority Liberal government survived a confidence vote in the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon, avoiding plunging the country into a snap election amid the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Liberals who govern without… »
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.”
Canada’s annual inflation ticks up to 0.5% in September: Statistics Canada
Canada’s consumer price inflation rose to 0.5 per cent in September compared to last year but remained well below the central bank’s 2 per cent inflation target, the country’s national statistics agency reported Wednesday. The annual inflation had slowed to… »
Trudeau warns Canadians not to believe COVID-19 ‘internment camps’ rumours
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned Canadians on Tuesday not to believe and spread “harmful misinformation” and conspiracy theories that the federal government is preparing internment camps to limit the spread of COVID-19 in Canada. The federal government has announced funding… »
Armenia claims it found Canadian tech on downed Turkish drone
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan urged the international community today to follow Canada’s example by suspending exports of military technology to Turkey — after his defence officials claimed they had found Canadian components on a downed Turkish drone. Pashinyan made the call a day after Armenian… »
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Canadian regulator greenlights Elon Musk’s satellite internet plan
Canada’s telecommunications regulator has approved an application by a company owned by U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk to provide satellite internet service to Canadians living in rural and remote areas. Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) owned by Musk plans to… »
Canada poised to surpass 200,000 COVID-19 cases
Canada is poised to reach 200,000 COVID-19 cases, surpassing another symbolic milestone as the country battles the second wave of the pandemic. There have been 198,148 cases of COVID-19, including 9,760 deaths reported in Canada, the country’s Chief Public Health… »
Canadian businesses worry about surviving pandemic’s second wave: survey
Nearly a third (31 per cent) of small- and medium-sized Canadian business owners worry they don’t have enough money or access to credit to survive another significant economic downturn caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to… »
Canada-U.S. border to remain closed until Nov. 21
Canada and the U.S. are extending travel restrictions on their mutual land border until at least Nov. 21, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said Monday. “Our decisions will continue to be based on the best public health advice available to… »
Champagne meets Belarus’s exiled opposition leader in Lithuania
Canada “will always be on your side” Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne told exiled Belarusian opposition figure Svetlana Tikhanovskaya during their meeting in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on Friday. Tikhanovskaya fled to Lithuania following the crackdown against tens of… »
Trudeau discusses Nagorno-Karabakh war with Armenian and Turkish leaders
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today he spoke with his Armenian counterpart Nikol Pashinyan this morning to express Canada’s concerns about the war in Nagorno-Karabakh between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces that has raged on for weeks. Speaking at a press conference in Ottawa, Trudeau… »
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