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Cameco employee Matt Senger is shown during a Cameco media tour of the uranium mine in Cigar Lake, Sask., on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015. File photo by The Canadian Press/Liam Richards

Saskatchewan fills mineral, energy and agricultures gaps caused by war in Ukraine

Cameco Corp. is in a position to grow, the president of the Saskatoon-based Uranium giant recently told investors, because a “geopolitical crisis has hit our market” with Russia’s war on Ukraine.

By Kelly Geraldine Malone | News | October 24th 2022

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith holds her first press conference in Edmonton, on Tuesday, October 11, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jason Franson

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's latest apology over "ill-informed" remarks about invasion of Ukraine

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she is apologizing for what she calls "ill-informed comments on Russia's invasion of Ukraine."

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | October 19th 2022

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith holds her first press conference in Edmonton, on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jason Franson

Smith should apologize for 'tone deaf' and 'cruel' comments on Ukraine war: Alberta NDP

Alberta’s Opposition NDP says Premier Danielle Smith needs to apologize for her remarks on the Russia-Ukraine war.

By Dean Bennett | News, Politics | October 18th 2022

An injured woman receives medical treatment at the scene of Russian shelling, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. Photo by The Associated Press/Efrem Lukatsky

Trudeau condemns deadly Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Russia's latest attacks on Ukraine as the country unleashed a lethal barrage of strikes against multiple Ukrainian cities on Monday, October 10, 2022, including downtown Kyiv where at least six people were killed.

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | October 11th 2022

Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly speaks to media at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Liberals say Russia visa ban would trap dissidents

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said she does not support following European countries in barring Russians from getting visas, arguing dissidents are facing increasing danger.

By Dylan Robertson | News, Politics | September 23rd 2022

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks as he sits with Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations Bob Rae during a meeting at the United Nations in New York on Sept. 21, 2022. Photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Putin 'failing and flailing,' has led to escalation of war and nuclear threats: Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Russia's "flailing and failing" president on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, joining a chorus of global outrage aimed at what he described as Vladimir Putin's panic-stricken escalation of a collapsing war in Ukraine.

By James McCarten | News, Politics | September 22nd 2022

A view of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant and the Dnipro river on the other side of Nikopol, Ukraine on Aug, 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

UN asks Russia to leave Ukraine nuclear plant

The U.N. atomic agency’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution on Thursday, September 16, 2022, calling on Moscow to immediately end its occupation of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant, where shelling of the facility and nearby areas in recent weeks heightened fears of a possible radiation disaster.

By Joanna Kozlowska | News, Politics | September 16th 2022

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gestures as she speaks on Ukraine at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

EU chief proposes cap on electricity company revenues

A top European Union official unveiled on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, a plan to cap the revenues of electricity producing companies that are making extraordinary profits due to the war in Ukraine and climate change, saying the proposal could raise $140 billion to help people hit by spiraling energy prices.

By Lorne Cooke & Samuel Petrequin | News | September 14th 2022

European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson speaks to The Associated Press during an interview in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

EU energy commissioner devises new plan to address fuel crisis

The European Union’s next steps for addressing the continent’s worsening energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are expected to be unveiled next week, the European commissioner for energy said on Tuesday, September 6, 2022.

By Victoria Milko | News, Politics | September 6th 2022

Photo by Nevalenx / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

U.K. and U.S. banks among biggest backers of Russian ‘carbon bombs’

Ukrainian campaigners call for an immediate end to investments, cut funds for Russia's war and help avoid climate breakdown.

Race Against Climate Change

By Damian Carrington | News | August 30th 2022

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