ARTICLES
Stories of deliverance for Ukrainian soldiers after months of Russian PoW camp hell
Three Ukraine soldiers, including a pregnant medic, survive six months in a squalid Russian prison to tell their stories
No end in sight to war for overwhelmed Ukraine psychologists dealing with the mental health fallout
Beyond dealing with the physical horrors, panic attacks, insomnia, flashbacks, anxiety and depression affect majority of patients
Three weeks of hope for the unbreakable mothers of Ukraine war
“Women struggle with sexual assault, even in peacetime, but in war it’s impossible,” said Masha Efrosinina. “I cannot imagine their trauma.”
‘Our people are so alone:’ Iranian women express hope and despair amid violent protests
Friends since the Iran-Iraq War in the ’80s, one got out, the other stayed. ‘I am sure we are not going to go back to where we were. Everything has changed.’
After the Taliban: Leading Afghan women now struggle to survive as refugees
Once influential Afghan professional engineers, government leaders and journalists now live in poverty as refugees in border countries
Is Canada ready for a menopause revolution?
Half of Canadian women feel unprepared and three quarters who sought medical advice found it lacking
The Haida’s fight to save their centuries-old ‘trees of life’
More than 2,000 hectares of Haida Gwaii forests are clear cut every year forcing the ‘cedar people’ to travel hours to find ancient giants for their spiritual traditions
Afghan women fear they’re being erased
Afghan women say they’ve lost their rights to study, work and dress freely. They have also lost their legal protection, leaving them defenceless against forced marriage, rape and murder.
She’s gone from house arrest to Green Party deputy leader. How I met Rainbow Eyes
I have seen Angela Davison, known as Rainbow Eyes, transform from a quiet fugitive to a transformational leader.
Amid Victoria’s drug crisis, the angel of Pandora Street helps keep homeless people alive
Once an addict herself, Millie Modeste says this is “what I was meant to do” as deaths from toxic drugs take more lives in B.C. than all other unnatural causes.
For Logan Staats, defending Wet’suwet’en territory is the fire that fuels his music
Singer-songwriter Logan Staats was performing at the Wet’suwet’en blockade in northern British Columbia in November when a swarm of RCMP officers grabbed his hair, slammed his face on the ground, jumped on top of him and arrested him, he said.
Black Canadians’ chances of getting kidney transplant hurt by race-based adjustment
Charles Cook has survived a stroke, a heart transplant, a kidney transplant and months in Toronto General Hospital. The 53-year-old knows he’s one of the lucky ones. But he worries that while waiting for his next new kidney, his luck will run out.
‘Here comes another madman’: Ukraine’s painful echo for Polish Canadians who fled Soviets
Eighty-nine-year-old Conrad Busch of Vancouver Island remembers holding the hands of his two younger sisters, his baby brother clinging to his back, as they pushed their way through a crowded railway station in Jablonowo, Poland, to escape the advancing Soviets.
Should Canada forgive the Taliban? Afghan voices from both sides of a divided and desperate land
Habibullah, a Taliban soldier in Afghanistan, remembers setting land mines at age 17 on his first day of fighting near Kandahar. “I saw a Canadian tank explode and knew I had killed for the first time,” he remembers with remorse.
As reports of rape by Russian soldiers pour in, a famous Ukrainian appeals to victims
Reports of Ukrainian women and girls being raped by Russian soldiers are increasingly emerging from the war zone. Masha Efrosinina, a Ukrainian TV presenter and Honorary United Nations Ambassador for Population Issues, is working with the Ukrainian National Police to help rape victims come forward.
Ukrainian Canadian Congress tells Justin Trudeau it has concerns about Red Cross
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress, an organization that represents 1.4 million Ukrainian Canadians, has written a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau outlining concerns about the Red Cross — concerns the charity says are unfounded.
The diabetes cure: A century after Banting and Best’s ‘message of hope,’ science is actually close
Lisa Hepner still remembers the shock of being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as a 21-year-old student. She thought she was just tired from too much partying. But her pancreas had stopped making the insulin needed to break down sugar, doctors said. It could shorten her life and cause a raft of complications: blindness, stroke, kidney disease and even amputation.
Can Canadian business help Ukrainians? Some say immigration rules are in the way
Pavlo Pocheyev says he’s working hard to keep his Ukrainian information-technology staff and business alive. He has closed three SSA Group offices since the Russians invaded on Feb. 24, and has relocated most of his 180 employees to western Ukraine.
Canada opened doors fast for Syrians and Lebanese fleeing war. Ukrainian Canadians wonder: why not now?
Olga Tchetvertnykh says she’s anxious to bring her Ukrainian family to Canada while they wait for the bloodshed in their country to end.
Why female executives are reluctant to talk about menopause
Menopause symptoms interfere with most women’s lives, according to a U.S. survey. And these challenges emerge between ages 45 and 55, just as women are likely to move into leadership positions.