CNN — Halloween is still more than a month away, but some major retailers are already prepping for Christmas. Walmart and Target have said they’re getting an earlier start on the holiday shopping season this year in stores and online as households nationwide continue to grapple with persistently high inflation that’s forcing them to cut … Read more
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Sept. 16.Alexandr Demyanchuk/The Associated Press Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will convene a top tier economy-focused meeting on Friday at which Russian payment system Mir and possible Western sanctions will be discussed, two sources with information on the matter told Reuters. The meeting with government officials and … Read more
Calgary’s Sergey Abramov clutched the screen of his phone, his eyes fixed on a video from Russia. A child is heard crying for his dad, who is reportedly being sent to fight in Ukraine. Abramov and his wife Tatiana Artemyeva have called Calgary home for 13 years. But their thoughts have been with family and … Read more
As Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to levy nuclear threats, how the world reacts to “sham” referendums taking place over the coming days in occupied regions of Ukraine will be vital for removing any “fake legitimacy” for the steps he could take next, warns Canada’s foreign minister. Melanie Joly spoke with reporters on Thursday from … Read more
A Ukrainian mother and her daughter, forced to flee because of the Russian invasion, are adjusting to a new way of life in Canada and the transition hasn’t been easy. Olga and Liubov Myrochuk left their home in the city of Irpin, outside of Kyiv, after a neighbor called to say the war was starting. … Read more
The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft carrying the crew of Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS). BAIKONUR (KAZAKHSTAN) – A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have arrived safely at the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said Wednesday, after blasting off on a … Read more
Large numbers of Russians rushed to book one-way tickets out of the country while they still could Wednesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of military reservists for the war in Ukraine. Flights filled up quickly and the prices of tickets for remaining connections sky-rocketed, apparently driven by fears that Russia’s borders … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin is growing “desperate” in his war against Ukraine but Canada and its allies won’t be distracted from supporting the eastern European country or from working together on pressing global priorities like climate change, says Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. Guilbeault spoke with journalists while in New York City for the United Nations … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists in Russia, in a measure that appeared to be an admission that Moscow’s war against Ukraine isn’t going according to plan after nearly seven months of fighting. It’s the first mobilization in Russia since World War II and comes amid humiliating battlefield losses for the … Read more
Anastasiia Lapatina says she hasn’t had a “typical college experience.” That is an understatement. When the pandemic hit and classes shifted online, the UBC student left Canada for Ukraine, where she grew up, to live with her mother in a suburb of Kyiv. At 20 years old, Lapatina’s dream of becoming a war correspond quickly … Read more
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