When faced with an existential threat, the humanity will rally together despite geopolitical rivalries and political tensions between superpowers. That’s the main lesson of a comparative study published in the journal Polar Record, by Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in… »
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.”
Canadian officials met with detained Canadian in China
Canadian consular officials in China visited with Michael Spavor, a China-based Canadian entrepreneur who’s been detained for 186 days on suspicion of “endangering national security,” Global Affairs Canada said Thursday. “Canadian consular officials continue to provide consular services to him… »
Arts & Entertainment, Politics
Canada must develop cultural diplomacy strategy, says Senate committee
Canada’s world-class arts and culture are top foreign policy assets and the federal government must develop a comprehensive strategy to make cultural diplomacy a pillar of Canada’s foreign policy, says a Senate committee report. Canadian artists are known around the… »
Ocean warming may reduce sea life by 17%, study finds
The world’s oceans could lose nearly one-sixth of their fish and other marine life by the end of the century if global warming continues on its current path, a new study says. Every degree Celsius that the world’s oceans warm,… »
Pitcher plants that devour baby salamanders discovered in Canada
It looks like something out of the pages of a horror thriller. And a Canadian researcher says his hair still stands on end when he thinks about the moment he first spotted a pitcher plant that had devoured a juvenile… »
2 Canadian women abducted in Ghana rescued
Two Canadian women who were abducted last week in Ghana have been rescued, the charity they volunteered for confirmed Wednesday. “Early this morning Lauren Tilley and Bailey Chitty were rescued by Ghanaian police,” said a statement by Youth Challenge International.… »
‘Witnessing catastrophe’: fighting in northwest Syria interrupts food distribution
A dramatic escalation of conflict in northwestern Syria is hampering some of the United Nations’ critical food distribution activities in the area as hundreds of thousands of refugees flee the fighting, says the World Food Program. The upsurge of fighting… »
Indigenous, International, Politics
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Canada
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, will visit Canada next week to discuss efforts to protect human rights and promote gender equality around the world, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Tuesday. During her four-day visit the… »
Leadership shakeup at Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin
The Canadian construction and engineering giant at the centre of a political scandal that shook the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, announced a major leadership shakeup Tuesday. SNC-Lavalin said that its chief executive Neil Bruce is retiring from… »
Ottawa ‘explores options’ to build Canada’s polar icebreaker
The federal government intends to turn to another Canadian shipyard for the construction of its long-awaited polar ice breaker, according to officials at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which oversees the Canadian Coast Guard. Under Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy,… »
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