U.S. President Donald Trump meanwhile suggested that Kyiv may have to give up territory in exchange for an end to Moscow's more than three-and-a-half-year invasion.

The Ontario Hospital Association has said that hospitals ended last year $360 million in the red and need an additional funding to keep pace with population growth and inflation.

A labour relations professor is criticizing the Alberta government's threat to legislate striking teachers back to work as 750,000 students enter a third week of cancelled classes.