For Rita Hall and Mark German, and other marijuana entrepreneurs like them, cannabis legalization has not gone the way they'd hoped. The industry's highs have turned to lows, they say, because of government regulation, taxation and a persistent illicit market.

The Green Party says Canada should consider restricting the types of weapons it sends to Ukraine and should pressfora negotiated peace between Russia and Ukraine.

Hamburg hosts a week of escalating protests, with demonstrators saying liquefied natural gas is no solution to Europes Russian-government induced energy crisis. But German decision-makers have reached out to Canada about increasing exports.