Global National: March 17

More than 100 mourners gathered in Ottawa on Sunday to remember six people killed earlier this month inside their suburban home. The funeral service paid tribute to Sri Lankan victims — a mother and her four young children as well as a family friend. The father of the children — the only survivor of the attack was also in attendance, still bearing the scars from the attack on March 6. In a written statement, he said that he is devastated. Mackenzie Gray has more. The polls are now closed in Russia’s first presidential election since the country’s full scale invasion of Ukraine. The results confirmed expectations, with Vladimir Putin winning a fifth term as president. The election commission in Moscow says Putin secured around 87 per cent of votes counted so far. Putin’s most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny, died in an Arctic penal colony one month ago. And on Sunday, his exiled wife Yulia Navalnaya called on voters to protest at the polls. Redmond Shannon reports.