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A billionaire trying to get off Canada’s Russia sanctions list denounced Vladimir Putin and the Ukraine war in a private statement to the government but it didn’t work, Global News has learned. Igor Makarov, an oil and gas magnate whose assets were frozen by Ottawa in 2022 in response to …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF) said on Friday that talks with the Government-Trustee Bargaining Committee (GTBC) are set to resume next week. The federation said all sanctions involved in the work action will be lifted Friday at 11:59 p.m. with talks resuming …

For 12 years, Roohollah Firooznam ran a company that installed and operated security cameras for Iran’s hardline regime. The cameras were used to monitor detainees at prisons where torture took place, and to keep watch on political opponents. Three directors of the company were senior members of the intelligence ministry. …

The sanctions Canada announced this weekend against six high-ranking Haitian politicians may or may not succeed in changing their behaviour — but they did show that the government of Canada is not as committed to Haiti’s ruling party as the Haitian opposition has claimed. All six of the sanctioned figures were …

As German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to arrive in Canada on Sunday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing renewed calls from Ukraine to cancel a permit allowing turbines repaired in Montreal to be sent back to a Russian energy giant. Scholz, who took over from Angela Merkel in December …

Russia’s Gazprom finally acted on weeks of threats and hints overnight, cutting the already-reduced flow of gas through the Nord Stream One pipeline to just 20 per cent of its full capacity. The move brought new worries to Germany, Italy and the other European countries that depend heavily on Russian gas …

Protesters on Parliament Hill called on Canada to “be brave like Ukraine” Sunday and uphold economic sanctions against Russia, just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered essentially the same message to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In a phone call between the leaders, Zelenskyy told Trudeau that his stance on …

The ongoing war in Ukraine moved from being a distant, abstract conflict to something more tangible for the leaders of the world’s seven wealthiest democracies on Monday with an address by the embattled country’s president. Volodymyr Zelensky told G7 leaders that despite their efforts to arm his country and to isolate the regime of Russian President Vladimir …

Crystal Whalen holds her daughter, Karlee, on Jan. 19, 2019, at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John’s. (Crystal Whalen/Facebook) The mother of a child who died in 2019 is angry about the sanctions her obstetrician received after acknowledging errors she made during the delivery. Crystal Whalen said the sanctions for …

Western allies are considering allowing Russian oligarchs to buy their way out of sanctions and using the money to rebuild Ukraine, according to government officials familiar with the matter. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland proposed the idea at a G7 finance ministers’ meeting in Germany last week. …