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Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 1 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As a Russian military convoy, reportedly 40 miles long, headed towards Kyiv on Tuesday, the Russian Defence Ministry issued a warning that “precision attacks” will target key buildings in the […] Read more

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Feb. 28 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Delegations from Ukraine and Russia are scheduled to meet in Belarus on Monday for negotiations, as Russian forces converge on Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelensky stated Ukraine […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – More Russian soldiers moved closer to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Friday with missiles falling on the city and residents taking shelter in underground subway stations. Russian forces had earlier taken the site of the former Chernobyl […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – A war between Russia and Ukraine began Thursday morning in earnest. Just moments after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” inside Ukraine, explosions were heard in the capital city of Kyiv, believed to be missile […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As Ukraine asked its citizens to leave Russia on Wednesday, the latter also evacuated its embassy in Ukraine as tensions between the two nations continue at a fevered pitch. Both actions were made after the United States cancelled […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – After a contentious debate, the House of Commons approved a motion by the Trudeau government to allow extraordinary measures within The Emergencies Act, which was invoked last week to end truck blockades at border crossings and in Ottawa. […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) has ramped up its efforts to end an occupation by truckers in the city’s downtown core on Thursday. Two prominent organizers of the so-called Freedom Convoy, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, were both […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s House of Commons will debate for the second straight day on Thursday before voting on which measures to use from The Emergencies Act, which was in effect since Monday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally tabled its declaration […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s inflation rate rose in January to its highest level since 1991 at 5.1 per cent, according to a Statistics Canada report released on Wednesday. Core inflation rose to 3.2 per cent in January, also the highest level […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday the Canadian government would be invoking The Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history in an effort to remove truck blockades protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates across the country. The […] Read more