Quebec provincial police are combing through a wooded area near Quebec City as they continue to search for the father of two girls whose bodies were found Saturday in a small town southwest of the provincial capital. The bodies of… »
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.”
Russia accuses Canada and the U.S. of violating Open Skies treaty
Russia is claiming Canada and the United States have violated a key international accord designed to build trust and prevent wars between former Cold War adversaries — and accuses Washington’s allies of kowtowing to the Trump administration on U.S. policies that go against… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
Canada joins international group of 22 countries to protect world’s oceans
Canada has joined a group of nearly two dozen other countries working to protect 30 per cent of the world’s oceans by 2030. Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Bernadette Jordan announced Canada’s participation in the Global… »
Canada’s economy added 953,000 jobs in June
Canada’s economy added 953,000 jobs in June as businesses shuttered by COVID-19 lockdowns began to reopen, the country’s national statistics agency reported Friday. Statistics Canada said the economy added 488,000 full-time and 465,000 part-time positions in June. Economists were expecting… »
Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Society
Ottawa recognizes children born abroad to same-sex couples as Canadians
The federal government is moving to change the interpretation of “parent” under the Citizenship Act to allow non-biological Canadian parents to pass down Canadian citizenship to their children born abroad, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced Thursday. Mendicino said the measure… »
PM Trudeau’s mother, brother and wife paid to speak at WE charity events
Justin Trudeau’s mother, brother and wife were paid nearly $300,000 over the years for speaking engagements for a Canadian charity at the centre of a political firestorm engulfing the prime minister after he awarded the NGO a lucrative contract to… »
Environment & Animal Life, International, Politics
Conservation groups urge more protection for critically endangered right whales
International conservation groups are calling on Canada and the United States to beef up measures designed to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales from ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear. The call comes as the International Union for Conservation… »
Economy, International, Politics
Trudeau ‘concerned’ with U.S. threat of tariffs on Canadian aluminum and steel
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday he is concerned about reports that Washington is considering reimposing tariffs not only on Canadian aluminum but also possibly steel just as Canada, the United States and Mexico are celebrating the launch of a… »
Immigration & Refugees, Politics
Border agency lost track of 34,700 foreign nationals slated for removal: report
Canada’s border agency has lost track of tens of thousands of foreign nationals it was supposed to deport from the country, according to a scathing new report from the federal auditor general. “We concluded that the Canada Border Services Agency… »
Atwood joins dozens of public figures in warning against threat to free speech
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood has joined dozens of intellectuals who have signed an open letter warning about a growing climate of intellectual and ideological intolerance that weakens “our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological… »
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