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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.
She was once left for dead in a dumpster. Now ‘Grandma Losah’ is leading a major protest movement
In the twilight hours at the busy intersection of Victoria’s Douglas and Johnson streets, Grandma Losah looks on as her protest group halts traffic in both directions with their Save Old Growth signs.
Florida condo collapse settlement leaves survivors, including Canadians, furious: ‘There are grown men crying today’
Survivors of a condo building collapse that killed nearly 100 people in Florida last June say the financial settlement approved by a U.S. court Friday threatens to victimize them again.
Will limiting alcohol make a difference in a small Nunavut town?
Joe Milukshuk hardly spoke or slept in the first days he stayed at our home in Toronto in 2018. The thoughtful 17-year-old Inuit boy from Kugluktuk, an isolated Nunavut hamlet on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, had never before seen a tall tree, or an elevator, or a fridge full of fresh food. The big city was overwhelming at first.
My friend joined the vaccine exodus, but I still can’t wait to welcome her back
My negative views about anti-vaxxers were put to the test this fall when one of my closest friends moved her family from Simcoe, Ont., to Florida to escape Canada’s widening array of vaccine mandates.
Missing B.C. logging protester Bear Henry found after 10 weeks
Bear Henry, a two-spirited Fairy Creek old-growth logging protester, missing for more than 10 weeks, has been found.
B.C. logging protester lives to tell the tale of 72-day odyssey in the wilderness
Bear Henry, a two-spirited Fairy Creek old-growth logging protester, has told loved ones they “survived on baked beans and peanut butter and jam” until their food ran out and then resorted to melting snow to drink, during a 74-day odyssey in the woods.
Fairy Creek lawyers asking BC court to throw out charges based on RCMP conduct
On Wednesday, the BC Supreme Court will review a request to drop charges against more than 300 Fairy Creek old-growth protesters. The proceeding is an application by the Crown to dismiss a Jan. 5 defence application for a stay of proceedings due to a pattern of misconduct by the RCMP.
No choice but to toil for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon
Lebanon is suffering one of the worst crises the world has seen in 150 years. The children in one Syrian refugee family have little choice but to work.
Search for missing Indigenous logging protester grows tense in B.C.
PORT-RENFREW, B.C. Family and friends of an Indigenous protester missing for seven weeks in the woods near a logging blockade on Vancouver Island lashed out Saturday at a logging company’s security for hampering their increasingly frantic search.
Psychiatrist burnout: Why COVID-weary doctors are taking a mental-health break
Toronto psychiatrist Dr. Yusra Ahmad’s infectious laugh belies the stress she is feeling. The single mother and survivor of domestic violence worries about her 12-year-old daughter learning virtually.
On the front lines to save an old-growth forest in B.C.
Polar Bear pulls up his scarf to hide his face and paces to keep warm. The 30-year-old protester has just hiked down to Fairy Creek headquarters from a stint watching over the trees in the old-growth forest. It has been raining and snowing for days and the drifts are knee-deep on the mountain near the protestors’ headquarters, a rough assembly of tents, tarps and vehicles abutting a barrier to local logging roads.
The long row home: Athletes call for more post-Olympic support
Conlin McCabe placed fourth in men’s pairs at the Tokyo Olympic Games — capping an Olympic rowing career that saw him win two medals over three games. But upon his retirement from the sport, the 31-year-old Brockville native faced an uncertain future.
Talking Taboo
Talking Taboo was created by the Dalla Lana Fellows in Global Journalism at the University of Toronto. Katharine Lake Berz is a co-anchor and contributor of Afghan Taboos. Women who live without a man or work outside the home in Afghanistan are breaking Taliban laws some of which are punishable by death.
Refugees-No-Sponsors
Canada has committed to resettle forty thousand Afghan refugees, yet fewer than four thousand have arrived so far, and Canadians hoping to help them once they arrive are stuck waiting for the government to keep its promise.
Canadians help Surfside Florida condo collapse survivors rebuild their lives
Raysa Rodriguez remembers being tossed out of bed by the force of her condo building heaving. Running out of her ninth-floor apartment in the dark, she saw that both elevators were missing. She knocked frantically on the door of her neighbour Oren Cytrynbaum. With no answer, she sprinted to the stairwell, opened the door and saw “the whole building was gone,” she says. “I heard women screaming in the pile.”
Wartorn: Five years after happily settling in Canada, a Syrian family is heartbroken as refugee siblings struggle around the world
I will never forget the image of Emel Hemo and her family arriving at Toronto’s Pearson Airport in the wave of Syrian refugees arriving in Canada in the fall of 2016 — all of their belongings piled onto a single cart.
Swimming upstream: For B.C.’s Cowichan Tribes, life by the river fraught by climate change and a fight for return of their chinook salmon tradition
North Saanich, B.C.—Larry George is working flat out helping his Cowichan Tribes community on Vancouver Island cope with devastating flood damage. The Cowichan River, heartbeat of the First Nations community, breeched its banks after heavy rain this month, forcing many families from their homes.