Global National: April 17

Mariupol, Ukraine is on the brink of falling to Russia, which would mark the first major victory for Russian forces in nearly two months of war. Shanghai has been completely shut down for weeks under the country’s zero-COVID policy. But rifts are starting to form over China’s strict COVID-19 mandates. Legal cannabis is big business in Canada, but growers are still facing challenges. And the Cold War era has been over for decades, but one sign of the times still stands on Canada’s West Coast.