Working as a producer today
I’m back at The Link for the second half of the day. My documentary on the Inuit Cultural School will have to wait again 🙁
Quebec Inuit brace for higher food prices
Montreal – Residents of Quebec’s northernmost communities are bracing for a steep increase in their grocery bill as a new federal food subsidy program kicks in on April 1. Gerard…
Sealskins on ice
Joelie Sanguya raised his axe, paused for a moment, then with a swift blow swung it at the frozen seal carcass. Behind him a chorus of hungry sled dogs filled…
Sealskins on ice: a by-product that was once a form of income for the Inuit now lies scattered as waste on the frozen tundra
CLYDE RIVER – Joelie Sanguya raised his axe, paused for a moment, then with a swift blow swung it at the frozen seal carcass. Behind him a chorus of hungry…
Re-elected Canadian Premier Harper turns quickly to economy
Montreal – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, buoyed by gains in Tuesday’s parliamentary elections, promptly announced an ambitious plan to tackle the financial crisis that has ravaged the neighbouring United…
Canadians return minority Conservative government to power
Montreal – Prime Minister Stephen Harper came within a stone’s throw of a majority government Tuesday as Canadians re-elected a minority Conservative government. Early returns showed Conservatives elected or leading…
Canada could again elect minority Conservative government
Montreal – Canadians are expected to elect another minority Conservative government as they head to national polls on Tuesday, the latest opinion polls show, reported dpa. “We’re not talking about…
Haunting images of pain and loss; Canadian Reporter-Photographer Paul Watson has written a breathtakingly compelling and candid account of his experiences as a foreign correspondent
Montreal Gazette Saturday, August 18, 2007 LEVON SEVUNTS There are moments in every reporter’s life when a story brings you to a moral conundrum. It can be something as simple…
Two deaths, two very different cases
Two deaths, two very different cases; A Russian diary, by murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya, is a ringing indictment of the course charted by president Vladimir Putin; death of a dissident,…
Drama and 'democracy'; Mark MacKinnon's incisive look at Post-soviet politics
Montreal Gazette Saturday, June 23, 2007 LEVON SEVUNTS The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union Mark MacKinnon Random House Canada, 313 pages,…