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The missiles, which can be fired by a single person, seem to be effective against Russia’s fleet of invading main battle tanks.
Some motorists are willing to pay more for the price of gas. Others are considering trading in gas-guzzling cars for more efficient vehicles. The price of gas at a Petro Canada gasoline station in Ajax, Ont., on March 7, 2022.
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Oil supply is very tight, and the current geopolitical crisis involving Russia, one of the world’s largest oil producers, has pushed prices over the edge.
From left, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Joe Biden.
Associated Press and Ukraine government
The current conflict in Ukraine has three key leaders, each of whom uses a different approach to the crisis.
Refugees who are foreign nationals, especially those from the Middle East, Asia and Africa are being discriminated against at the borders.
(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
We must demand safety for all refugees, not just Ukrainian nationals.
Demonstrators march at a rally in support of Ukraine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. on Feb. 28.
(AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Canada and its universities have roles to play in providing safe spaces to scholars in regions where research is under threat due to conflict and repression.
This painting by Russian artist Alexei Danilovich Kivshenko depicts the ceremonial pledge of allegiance by Ukrainian Cossacks to the Tsar of Russia in 1654.
Heritage Image Partnership Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
Throughout history, Russian rulers have seen it as their mission to ‘gather the lands of the Rus’.
The prospect of a peace deal remains remote.
Kremlin Pool/Alamy Stock Photo
This is a situation with many moving parts, any one of which can derail diplomacy.
Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, speaks during a special session of the General Assembly on March 02, 2022.
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The resolution is not legally binding, but is an expression of the views of the UN membership.
A soldier salutes during a recent Armed Forces Day parade in South Africa attended by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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The declining defence budget has eroded the operating and capital expenditure of the military, leaving insufficient funds for the replacement of equipment, maintenance, and infrastructure.
In this March 4, 2022, photograph, Ukrainian soldiers stand guard outside the train station in Irpin, Ukraine.
Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times
Though the Russian army dwarfs the strength of the Ukrainian army, the underdog has managed to resist during the early days of the Russian invasion. Military reforms are part of the reason.
Ukraine could use war bonds to tap into the broad international outrage over Russia’s invasion.
AP Photo/Leo La Valle
A historian explains how the US has used war bonds to both fund its wars and inspire patriotism among Americans.
Defiant: Volodymyr Zelensky is rallying Ukrainians with a series of video messages as Russian assassination squads try to hunt him down.
EPA-EFE/Ukranian presidential press service handout
Volodymyr Zelensky remains in Kyiv, rallying resistance to the Russian invasion.
Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces is a newly established volunteer branch of the armed forces.
Roman Pilipey / EPA-EFE
Zelensky’s call for foreign volunteers to help Ukraine is the latest chapter in a long history of volunteer forces.
Alexei Nikolsky/AP
The West broke an implicit contract when it denied Russia access to its foreign reserves on February 27. It’s hard to see a way back.
Roman Pilipey/EPA/AAP
As Ukraine scrambles to defend itself from Russia’s illegal invasion, men aged 18 to 60 have been banned from leaving the country.
AAP/AP/Vadim Ghirda
The war in Ukraine has an important faith dimension, because Christians on both sides share thousands of years of religious history.
People crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee by crossing the Irpin River in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 5, 2022.
(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a catastrophe and should be condemned, but that doesn’t mean the West should dismiss some of Putin’s conditions as a step to ending the war.
A woman pays homage at the memorial to victims of the 1941 Nazi massacre of Jews in Babi Yar in Kyiv, Ukraine.
AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky
Over two days in September 1941, more than 33,000 Jews were murdered by Nazi forces and their Ukrainian collaborators in Babi Yar.
The war in Ukraine will have major implications for energy and climate change, in Canada and the rest of the world, far into the future.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
New relationships between energy, geopolitical security and climate change policy flowing from the invasion of Ukraine are beginning to emerge, and the implications could be enormous.
Andrew Parsons, president of the International Paralympic Committee, speaks at the opening ceremony at the 2022 Winter Paralympics. The IPC announced on March 3 that all athletes from Russia and Belarus would be barred from competing.
(AP Photo/Andy Wong)
It’s time for organizations like the IPC to stop lamenting the intersection of sport and politics, and instead accept this well-established reality going forward.