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Finding a father on Facebook Marketplace
Why prospective parents are turning to social media for sperm donations. “I was in such a place of desperation, thinking, ‘Just give me the baby, and I will figure everything else out later.’”
Should diplomats stay in place during war — or evacuate?
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Canadian diplomats fled Kyiv, leaving Ukrainian staff behind and raising questions about their role in war.
‘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
Sexual violence against women in Afghanistan on the rise under Taliban
Afghan women who spoke to The Globe described instances of extreme violence supported by the Taliban’s doctrines.
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
From Conflict Zones to Classrooms
How can educators facilitate inclusion for Ukrainian students fleeing the war?
Coast Salish sweat-lodge keeper welcomes all to share in healing
Hwiemtun cleanses collective trauma through sweat-lodge ceremonies
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.
Mélanie Joly invites the committee to investigate whether Ottawa knew about the Russian threat against the Ukrainian embassy staff
Minister Joly said she would welcome an investigation into whether Ottawa knew that locally hired Ukrainian staff might be on Russian kill lists.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says she didn’t know Kyiv embassy staff was in danger
Minister Joly says she was unaware of intelligence reports that Ukrainians who worked for the Canadian embassy were likely on lists of people Moscow intended to detain or kill.
Canada abandoned Ukrainian embassy employees despite their likelihood of being on Russian hit list
Ottawa told Canadian embassy leaders in Kyiv to withhold information from Ukrainian staff and leave them behind
Afghan women grappling with opioid addiction live in fear of being imprisoned by the Taliban
Under the Taliban, women and child addicts live in grave danger
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.
Afghanistan’s opium trade thriving under local Taliban officials despite narcotics ban
Despite a strict new ban in Afghanistan on cultivating narcotics, Taliban officials are stockpiling opium and other drugs, and continuing to allow some drug production, a crucial contributor to the country’s economy.
Are sea lions and seals eating too much of B.C.’s salmon? The answer may lead to a cull
Photogenic they may be. But the mammals’ diet may be upsetting the balance of B.C.’s marine ecosystem.
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.
In Ukraine war, Red Cross defends neutrality against critics
The Red Cross’s long tradition of neutrality is proving controversial in some quarters as it seeks to help victims on both sides of the war between Russia and Ukraine.