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Mike Blanchfield

Reporter with The Canadian Press
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Canada encourages G7 to seize and sell frozen Russian assets

The federal government is working with G7 allies to craft new legislation that would allow for not just the freezing of sanctioned Russian assets, but seizing them on behalf of Ukrainian war victims.
News, Politics | April 28th 2022

More COVID variants will emerge without higher global vaccine rates

With pandemic restrictions easing across Canada, a House of Commons committee was warned on April 25, 2022, that disruptive new variants of COVID-19 will continue to emerge every few months unless the low vaccination rate in poorer countries rises.
News, Politics | April 26th 2022
Bob Rae,

Russia passes sanctions on Canadian premiers, journalists, military, political staff

Russia targeted 61 Canadians — from politicians to journalists — with fresh sanctions on Thursday, April 21, 2022, over Canada's actions against the country for its invasion of Ukraine.
News, Politics | April 22nd 2022
Melanie Joly,

Foreign minister Mélanie Joly implores China to help end war on Ukraine

Canada and China disagree on many things but Beijing's buy-in is essential on one key issue — helping end the Russian war on Ukraine, says Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly.
News, Politics | April 13th 2022
Ukrainian serviceman, Russian tanks, Bucha, Ukraine,

RCMP on the ground in Ukraine collecting possible war crime evidence

The investigation by the Mounties has been launched through the federal war crimes program to ensure important information and evidence is gathered from Ukrainians who wish to provide it upon arrival.
News, Politics | April 8th 2022
Ukrainian soldiers, Russian military vehicles, Bucha, Kyiv, Ukraine,

Foreign Minister Joly in Finland where calls are mounting for Russian war crimes trial

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is condemning Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians as abhorrent and senseless and says new Canadian sanctions are coming against Russia as a result.
News, Politics | April 5th 2022

International war crimes probe needed for Russia, Canadian ministers say

Russia's blocking of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and its bombing of medical facilities should be the subjects of an international war crimes investigation, says Canada's international development minister.
News, Politics | April 1st 2022
Ukraine flags, Istanbul, Turkey,

More RCMP sent to investigate possible war crimes by Russia in Ukraine

Canada is sending additional RCMP officers to assist the International Criminal Court investigation into possible war crimes by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
News, Politics | March 30th 2022
Justin Trudeau, Andrzej Duda, Belwelder Palace, Warsaw, Poland,

Canada sanctions Russian oligarch Abramovich as Trudeau leaves Europe amid war

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced new sanctions on Friday, March 11, 2022, against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, a major shareholder in Evraz, a British multinational manufacturing company that operates a steel mill in Regina.
News, Politics | March 11th 2022

Trudeau, Zelenskyy talk ahead of German meetings in Berlin

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has issued a standing invitation to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to address Canada's Parliament one day.
News, Politics | March 10th 2022
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