With just a few days left before the New Year, your hosts in this last show of 2015 are Terry Haig and Levon Sevunts. The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent makes its way through the ice in Baffin… »
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.”
Light shines in the darkness: Queen’s Christmas message
Be thankful for the “people who bring love and happiness into our own lives and look for ways of spreading that love to others,” urges the Queen in her annual Christmas message broadcast around the world. “It is true that the… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics, Society
Look at Arctic issues in 2015 and 2016
Despite growing political tensions elsewhere in the world, 2015 was a year of cooperation in the Arctic, say two Canadian Arctic experts. “I think the single most important development in 2015 has been the continuation of cooperation in the Arctic,… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Yukon woman killed by bullet husband fired to stop grizzly attack: coroner
A Swiss-born woman living in Canada’s northern Yukon Territory died from a stray bullet fired by her husband trying to kill a grizzly bear that was mauling her outside their home, according to a coroner’s report released Wednesday. Matthias Liniger fired several rounds… »
Canadian launches engagement ring into stratosphere to ‘enchant’ fiancée
You can safely say Shawn Wright has raised the bar on wedding proposals to new heights… stratospheric heights to be more exact. The 29-year-old resident of Calgary in Canada’s western province of Alberta launched an engagement ring beyond the stratosphere using… »
Think-tank urges Canada to open foreign markets for financial services sector
One of Canada’s paramount foreign trade priorities should be opening access to key markets in Asia and Latin America for the country’s financial services sector, says a new report the C.D. Howe Institute. The report entitled “Opening up New Trade… »
Immigration & Refugees, Politics
Canada may not reach Syrian refugee target for 2015
Canadian officials are “moving heaven and earth” to bring in as many Syrian refugees as possible but may fall short of their target to relocate 10,000 refugees by the end of the year, said federal Immigration and Citizenship Minister John McCallum Wednesday.… »
Arctic tea toss photo becomes Internet sensation
Next time you take a photo that you don’t like at first, don’t erase it, give it another chance. Just ask Michael Davies. The Canadian photographer based in the tiny hamlet of Pangnirtung, in Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut, almost… »
Supporters of jailed Canadian pastor hope for his release despite North Korean outburst
Supporters of a Canadian pastor convicted of subversion and sentenced to hard labour for life by North Korea say they hope a war of words between Pyongyang and Ottawa will not derail behind the scenes efforts to have the man… »
Quebec’s top court upholds doctor-assisted suicide law
Quebec’s top court upheld on Tuesday the right of terminally ill patients in the province to seek medically assisted death. The ruling by a three-judge Court of Appeal panel came after a lower court judge ruled on Dec. 1 that the province’s… »
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