The Liberal government is extending the Canadian military mission to assist in the fight against the remnants of ISIS by another year and is pledging to commit $43.6 million to stabilization programs in Iraq and Syria, federal officials announced Tuesday.… »
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.”
Ottawa to invest $415M in Sanofi’s flu vaccine facility in Toronto
The federal government will invest $415 million to help French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi build an influenza vaccine manufacturing facility in Toronto, Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced Wednesday. Sanofi will invest $455 million and the provincial government of Ontario will chip… »
Canada’s economy grew by 0.7% in January, says Statistics Canada
Canada’s economy grew by 0.7 per cent in January, despite lockdown measures in the face of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday. The national statistics agency said the economy outperformed its own expectations and was… »
Canada to receive 5M Pfizer doses ahead of schedule in June, Trudeau says
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer-BioNTech has agreed to move up delivery of five million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to Canada from late summer to June, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Tuesday. The accelerated delivery schedule will bring Canada’s total expected doses… »
Canada pledges $49.5M in new aid for Syrians at UN funding conference
Canada will provide $49.5 million in additional aid to help millions of Syrians affected by a decade-long devastating war that continues to ravage the country, International Development Minister Karina Gould said Tuesday. The new funding will go towards providing nutritional… »
Canada’s vaccine body recommends stopping AstraZeneca jabs for those under 55
Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) is recommending provinces pause the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine on those under the age of 55 because of safety concerns, CBC News is reporting. The recommendation comes following reports of possible… »
Economy, International, Politics
PM Trudeau co-hosts meeting of world leaders as UN warns of debt crisis
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau co-hosted a virtual meeting of world leaders on Monday as the United Nations warned that a looming debt crisis risks sending the global economy “spiralling deeper into the worst recession since the Great Depression.”. The… »
Bird strike blamed for fatal crash of Canadian military aerobatics jet
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) says a small bird brought down one of its famed Snowbird air demonstration jets last year, killing a passenger and injuring the pilot. The RCAF’s Directorate of Flight Safety released on Monday its findings… »
Environment & Animal Life, Politics, Society
Canada’s carbon price is set to increase by $10 on April 1
With the federal carbon tax set to increase by $10 to $40 per ton on April 1, many Canadians will have to pay more at the pump or for heating their houses. But they will also get a bigger tax… »
Canada facing ‘strong resurgence’ of COVID-19, says top doctor
Despite recent progress in immunizing older Canadians, Canada is likely to see a “strong resurgence” of COVID-19 cases across the country if the more transmissible variants continue to spread and become more commonplace, according to new modeling by the Public… »
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