After flirting with deflation for two month, Canada’s consumer prices rebounded sharply in June, pulling the annual inflation rate out of negative terrain to 0.7 per cent on a year-to-year basis, Canada’s national statistics agency reported Wednesday. The consumer price… »
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.”
Trudeau grilled by opposition over WE Charity contract
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was grilled by opposition members in the House of Commons over his decision to award the administration of a $900-million student-volunteering program to a charity with which he and his Finance Minister Bill Morneau had close… »
COVID-19 could drive up demand for single family houses, says Statistics Canada
As working from home becomes more prevalent due to the pandemic, Canadians seeking to buy new houses are increasingly likely to turn to larger single-family homes and away from condominium units, Canada’s national statistics agency forecasts in its latest report… »
Quebec manhunt ends as body of man sought for deaths of 2 daughters found
Quebec provincial police ended their 12-day manhunt for Martin Carpentier on Monday evening following the discovery of his body in a wooded area southeast of Quebec City hours after an emotional funeral was held for his daughters. Police had been… »
Environment & Animal Life, Society
Conservation group releases critically endangered butterflies reared in zoo
A Canadian conservation group has released 19 butterflies, reared in a lab, to a patch of prairie grass lands in the Western province of Manitoba in a desperate attempt to save the critically endangered species from extinction. The Poweshiek skipperling… »
International, Politics, Society
Voice data recovered from downed Ukrainian passenger jet
Experts at the French air accident investigation body, BEA, on Monday successfully downloaded data from the cockpit voice recorder of a Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iran in January. Fifty-five Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents of Canada were among… »
Canadian police investigate deadly bus rollover on Alberta glacier
Police in Alberta are investigating a deadly rollover of an icefield tour bus in the Canadian Rockies that killed three people and sent two dozen to hospital on Saturday. The off-road bus crashed near the Columbia Icefield, the largest icefield… »
Environment & Animal Life, Politics, Society
COVID-19 spared Canada’s West Coast from cruise ship pollution: report
The effective cancellation of Canada’s 2020 cruise ship season due to the COVID-19 pandemic has saved British Columbia’s coast from exposure to billions of litres of pollution spewed by dozens of cruise ships that usually visit the Pacific Coast province,… »
Quebec manhunt intensifies as police search cabins for father of 2 dead girls
Quebec provincial police are asking residents of Saint-Apollinaire near Quebec City to check their cabins, trailers and sheds scattered in the woods around the municipality as they intensify their search for Martin Carpentier, who is wanted in connection with the… »
Health, International, Internet, Science & Technology, Politics
Russia denies involvement in alleged hacking of COVID-19 vaccine research
Russia is denying claims by Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. that its intelligence services were behind a group of cyber hackers that tried to steal research into a possible vaccine for the virus that causes COVID-19. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry… »
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