The LINK Online with Lynn Desjardins, Levon Sevunts and Carmel Kilkenny this week. Syrian refugees welcomed in Canada The Canadian government is arranging transportation and shelter for 25,000 Syrian refugees, some of whom are pictured on the Syrian-Turkish border above,… »
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Levon SevuntsLynn DesjardinsMarc Montgomery
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.”
Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Lynn has dedicated her working life to journalism. After decades in the field, she still believes journalism to be a pillar of democracy and she remains committed to telling stories she believes are important or interesting. Lynn loves Canada and embraces all seasons: skiing, skating, and sledding in winter, hiking, swimming and playing tennis in summer and running all the time. She is a voracious consumer of Canadian literature, public radio programs and classical music. Family and friends are most important. Good and unusual foods are fun. She travels when possible and enjoys the wilderness.
With a passion for anything antique with an engine, and for Canadian and world history, Marc comes with a wealth of media experience. After DJ work at private radio in southern Ontario, and with experience in Canadian Forces radio and tv in Europe, the state broadcaster in Austria (Radio 3), and the CBC in Ottawa and Montreal, he was the host of the immensely popular CBC and RCI show, “The Link”. He is now part of the new RCI online team producing stories from and about Canada from coast to coast.
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The LINK Online Nov. 07, 2015
Your hosts today, Lynn, Levon, and Marc Pascal Paradis (centre), executive director of Lawyers Without Borders Canada, speaks at a press conference in Montreal Nov. 3, 2015. Sitting next to him is Ensaf Haidar, the wife of jailed Saudi blogger… »
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The LINK Online, Sat., Oct. 31, 2015
Your hosts today, Lynn, Marc and we welcome Levon Sevunts back to RCI as the new member of our English team. A Syrian refugee hugs her crying baby after arriving on a raft on the Greek island of Lesbos, October… »
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The LINK Online Sat., Oct. 24, 2015
Your hosts today, Carmel, Terry, and Marc Short and common passwords are easy to guess and make users vulnerable to having things like email and online banking accounts hacked. © Shutterstock It seems that all the advice you’ve heard about how… »
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the LINK Online Sat.,Oct 17, 2015
Your hosts this week are Lynn and Marc. Dr. Marc Rodger conducted a 12-year study showing that daily injections of blood thinners to prevent miscarriages don’t work. © Courtesy: The Heart and Stroke Foundation Dr Marc Rodger is a researcher and… »
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The LINK Online Sat Oct 10, 2015
Your hosts this week, Lynn Terry Haig, and Marc Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaking about the TPP deal.”Ten years from now, I predict with 100 per cent certainty people are looking back, they will say if we’ve got in it,… »
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The LINK Online, Sat., Oct. 03 2015
Your hosts this week, Lynn, Carmel, and Marc Canadian police officers training for a mission in Haiti stand at attention on National Peacekeepers Day August 11, 2013 in the nation’s capital, Ottawa. © Patrick Doyle/Canadian Press Lester Pearson, a Canadian diplomat… »
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the LINK Online Sat., 26 Sept. 2015
Your hosts this week are Lynn, Carmel and Marc Canada will no longer require Syrians and Iraqis to prove they have UN refugee status before considering them for resettlement © Mohammed Zaatari/Associated Press The crisis in the Middle-East and Europe with… »
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The LINK On-line, Sat. September 19th, 2015
Yours hosts this week are Carmel Kilkenny and Terry Haig An oil tanker, guided by tugboats under Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge, at the mouth of the Vancouver Harbour The use of Temporary Foreign Workers grew exponentially in many businesses in… »
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The LINK Online Sat, Sept 12, 2015
Your hosts this edition; Lyn Desjardins and Marc Montgomery Syrians with family in Canada should not have to flee for their lives, but rather be admitted through a streamlined family unification process, say advocates. © Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo There is pressure… »
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