More than 13 months after the invasion of Ukraine, Canadians with no ties to President Vladimir Putin or his regime remain frustrated and anxious as salaries earned abroad, retirement investments and even funeral savings sit frozen among the assets caught up in Canada’s sanctions net.
Ingrid Morton and her husband Graham are among them. For years, they travelled the world on a series of contracts teaching English at international schools. Their final contract was in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
But when political unrest erupted in street protests and local authorities declared a state of emergency in early 2022 — followed closely by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — they decided to leave the region
