
A run on Ukrainian flags, anti-war protests and iconic attractions lit up in yellow and blue: Canadians joined a global outcry over Russia's invasion of Ukraine as Ottawa on Friday targeted Vladimir Putin directly with sanctions.
Hundreds of protesters at a rally in Toronto overnight -- the first of many -- waved placards that read "Stop Putin, stop war," while mayor John Tory raised a Ukrainian flag at city hall, he said in an online video, "to express solidarity with Ukraine."