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As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raises questions about global energy security, Canada’s environment minister is blasting Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s assertion Canada must “get some pipelines built” to help “defang” Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Oleksiy Sorokin was studying political science and history in Toronto when his Ukrainian homeland was last on the world stage back in 2014. The 26-year-old now finds himself reporting from Kyiv as Russian forces attack the capital and the country.

From data centre warehouses to cryptocurrency, technology is another energy hog.

Russians around the world have taken to the streets daily to denounce their homeland's invasion of Ukraine and some, like Koshkareva at a rally on the weekend, have burned their documentation.

The changes begin today, and include an end to capacity limits and most of the masking rules.

Ottawa is being urged to take a harder line as countries such as China and Iran increasingly turn to digital technologies to target activists and dissidents living outside their borders, including in Canada.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is headed to the Poland-Ukraine border on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, to ensure that Canada's latest supply of military aid flows into the war-ravaged country.

While the race to lead the Conservative Party of Canada may still only have one contender, its members of Parliament are being invited to meet with a potential second.

Medical professionals and industry groups are calling on Ottawa to end all COVID-19 border testing requirements as the travel sector struggles to recover two years into the pandemic.

The Canadian government prioritized existing immigration applications from Ukraine since thousands of people began to flee Russian aggression in the region.

For two decades, Vladimir Putin has struck rivals as reckless, impulsive. But his behavior in ordering an invasion of Ukraine — and now putting Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert — has some in the West questioning whether the Russian president has become dangerously unstable.

As Russia’s war in Ukraine plays out for the world on social media, big tech platforms are facing increased calls to bar Russian state media from using their platforms to spread propaganda and misinformation.

Russian shelling pounded the central square in Ukraine’s second-largest city and other civilian targets Tuesday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital — as Ukraine’s embattled president accused Moscow of resorting to terror tactics to press Europe’s largest ground war in generations.

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