Canada’s grocers remove Russian products from store shelves

The Proteha sunflower seeds are gone. So are the bottles of Kvass malt beer, and the chocolate-covered marshmallows.

All of these products with made-in-Russia labels could be found on select grocery shelves in Canada until recently. But as companies around the world have distanced themselves from operations and business relationships in Russia – a corporate shunning of Vladimir Putin’s regime as its invasion of Ukraine rages on – grocery retailers here have also taken a small but symbolic step.