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Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Past articles by Mike:

Canada sanctions over 200 Russians in eastern Ukraine

Canada sanctions 11 senior officials and 192 other members of the People’s Councils of the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk for supporting Putin’s attack on the area → Read More

Canada sanctions 200 Russians in eastern Ukraine

OTTAWA - Canada has imposed sanctions on more than 200 people who are loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Global Affairs Canada says the new measures target 11 senior officials and 192 other members of the People's Councils of the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Luhansk and Donetsk for supporting Putin's attack on the area. → Read More

Low vaccine rate fuelling pandemic: Gavi, UNICEF

OTTAWA - With pandemic restrictions easing across Canada, a House of Commons committee was warned today that disruptive new variants of COVID-19 will continue to emerge every few months unless the low vaccination rate in poorer countries rises. → Read More

MPs need to fast-track new law to seize sanctioned Russian assets, senator says

Senator Ratna Omidvar says the images of destruction emerging from Ukraine make it essential to enact a law to begin confiscating Russian money before Parliament adjourns for the summer → Read More

Russian sanctions target premiers, journalists

OTTAWA - Russia targeted 61 Canadians — from politicians to journalists — with fresh sanctions on Thursday over Canada's actions against the country for its invasion of Ukraine.Many of those named, including provincial premiers, military personnel, political staff and journalists, treated their inclusion on the latest list from President Vladimir Putin as a proverbial badge of honour. → Read More

RCMP collects evidence of alleged war crimes in Ukraine from people fleeing invasion

The RCMP is collecting evidence of alleged war crimes in Ukraine from people fleeing to Canada following Russia’s invasion of their country → Read More

Meet NATO defence target in budget: Biz council

OTTAWA - One of Canada's most influential business lobby groups is making an unprecedented request for increased defence spending in Thursday's federal budget because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.The Business Council of Canada says it is time for Canada to commit to matching the NATO target on defence spending of two per cent of gross domestic product. → Read More

Zelenskyy briefs Trudeau amid talks with Russia

OTTAWA - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau an update Monday on new ceasefire talks with Russia that are being held amid Ukrainian claims of military gains against Russian forces. → Read More

Beef emerging as issue in U.K.-Canada trade talks

OTTAWA - A potential clash over hormone-treated Canadian beef is emerging as a sticking point as free trade talks between Canada and Britain formally begin. In an interview with The Canadian Press, U.K. International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan confirmed her government would not compromise on allowing hormone-treated Canadian beef into Britain. → Read More

Canada sanctions Russian oligarch Abramovich

WARSAW, Poland - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau capped a weeklong European trip Friday by slapping new sanctions on the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who has become an international poster boy for the largesse that enabled President Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine. Abramovich is a major shareholder in Evraz, a British multinational manufacturing company that operates a steel mill in Regina. → Read More

Trudeau, Polish leaders, discuss refugee crisis

WARSAW, Poland - Polish President Andrzej Duda says Canada was the only country that reached out to Poland to offer help managing a refugee crisis before Russia invaded Ukraine last month. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Poland today meeting with Duda and Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki as an estimated 100,000 Ukrainian refugees pour into Poland every day. → Read More

Trudeau calls for recommitment to democracy

BERLIN - Democracy has not been at its best in recent years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told an international audience Wednesday as he called for a recommitment to it in the face of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine."At its best, democracy is always stronger than authoritarianism," Trudeau said in a speech to the Munich Security Conference, a Berlin-based international think thank. → Read More

Trudeau to hold talks with NATO chief in Latvia after pledging support to Baltic leaders

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the leaders of three Baltic countries bordering Russia that Canada will stand with them as he began his trip to Latvia → Read More

Trudeau to meet NATO leader during Latvia visit, pledges support for Baltic allies

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told leaders of three Baltic countries bordering Russia that Canada fight not only the Kremlin's war on Ukraine but its cyberattacks, too. → Read More

Trudeau, NATO stage rebuke of Russia in Latvia

ĀDAŽI, Latvia - Justin Trudeau joined NATO allies Tuesday in staging a theatrical rebuke of Russia's war on Ukraine from a heavily armoured war-games field and in a floodlit news conference from one of the alliance's eastern European bases. → Read More

Trudeau meeting with PMs of U.K., the Netherlands

LONDON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his British and Dutch counterparts displayed a show of solidarity with besieged Ukraine on Monday at a historic military base that helped defend Britain during the Second World War. → Read More

Foreign affairs minister tells UN panel Russia lied to world before invading Ukraine

‘Russia is the only one to blame for this crisis. It chose to resort to lies and violence and fabricate all the pieces of a crisis,’ Mélanie Joly tells a UN panel → Read More

Canada's foreign minister heads to Poland

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she is headed to the Polish-Ukraine border on Tuesday to make sure that Canada's latest supply of military aid flows into the war-ravaged country. Joly says she will also be meeting with her Polish counterparts in Warsaw to discuss the refugee crisis spawned by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. → Read More

Ukraine MPs ask Canada, allies to provide air, ground help for Russian ‘Blitzkrieg’

MPs plead for no-fly zone, ground troops in Zoom messages recorded from homes, bunkers and cars → Read More

Canada will match individual donations to Red Cross for Ukraine dollar for dollar

Ottawa will match donations Canadians make to the Red Cross dollar for dollar to a maximum of $10 million. → Read More