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.

Tim Kulchyski says salmon used to be so plentiful off Vancouver Island that they would shake his Cowichan ancestors’ dugout canoes as they collided in the waters of the Salish Sea.

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.

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.

The tent-like dome shaped from willow boughs and covered with blankets and tarps on the Cowichan reservation on Vancouver Island does not look much like a place of healing. But a place of healing is what it is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Olga Tchetvertnykh says she’s anxious to bring her Ukrainian family to Canada while they wait for the bloodshed in their country to end.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Bear Henry, a two-spirited Fairy Creek old-growth logging protester, missing for more than 10 weeks, has been found.

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.

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.

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.

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.