When it comes to the Arctic, the federal budget tabled by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday lacks innovation and borrows heavily from the Conservative playbook, which the Liberals spent years criticising, says an expert on Arctic… »
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.”
Search for missing Manitoba toddler continues
A team of Royal Canadian Mounted Police divers has joined a massive search for missing Manitoba toddler Chase Martens as the area is bracing for more bad weather. The searchers parties worked through another cold night in rural Manitoba, using flashlights to… »
Doctors trying to figure out what is causing skin rashes on children in Ontario Indigenous community
Doctors are still trying to figure out what is causing an outbreak of skin lesions among children in an Indigenous community in Northern Ontario. Medical workers have gone door-to-door in Kashechewan and have identified 18 children ranging from toddlers to… »
Conservative MP Jim Hillyer found dead in Ottawa office
Alberta Conservative MP Jim Hillyer has died in Ottawa. The 41-year-old father of four, who represented the riding of Medicine Hat–Cardston–Warner, complained Tuesday of feeling ill. He was found in his office Wednesday morning. Mike Storeshaw, director of communications for the… »
Budget 2016: Ottawa forecasts $29.4B deficit
The Liberal government unveiled its first federal budget on Tuesday, outlining the new government’s plans to spend billions on infrastructure projects and tax benefits for the middle class amid a sea of red ink for the next four years. Finance… »
Mysterious skin lesions on children put focus on aboriginal health
Infants and young children suffering from mysterious skin lesions and sores are the new face of the public health emergency facing Canada’s aboriginal communities. Authorities have had to hospitalize children from the Kashechewan First Nation in northern Ontario after pictures… »
Canada condemns ‘cowardly’ attacks in Belgium: PM Trudeau
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined a chorus of world leaders to express his solidarity with the Belgian people on Tuesday, after deadly explosions tore through an airport and a metro station in Brussels killing at least 34 people and… »
Majority of Canadians have negative views of Muslims: survey
A majority of Canadians do not hold positive opinions of Muslims, according to a new national survey released by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) and the Canadian Institute for Identities and Migration (CIIM). The survey of 1,500 Canadians conducted… »
Canadian study looks at Arctic beetles as climate change markers
The poster boy for climate change in the Arctic is the ferocious but wildly photogenic polar bear. But if Chris Buddle had his say, beetles and other critters we rarely pay attention to would be up there with polar bears… »
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Canada’s Supreme Court agrees to hear Arctic seismic testing case opposed by Inuit
Canada’s highest court has agreed to hear an appeal against seismic testing in Arctic waters between Canada and Greenland brought by the Inuit hamlet of Clyde River in Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut. The residents of Clyde River, an Inuit… »
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