Podcast by Raju Mudhar. The opioid crisis has claimed many lives. Some believe that some of those deaths were targeted killings.

With overdose deaths more than quadrupling from 2016 to 2021, police in Niagara are taking new steps to scrutinize fatal overdoses.

An isolated village not far from Bakhmut has no power and little water for a year, while suffering attacks. Here’s why many are waiting it out.

“There are few safe places to hide now with all the water.” Ukrainians affected by destroyed dam are urging the world to intervene.

When the Russians came, most villagers fled, naturally. But a few felt they couldn’t. Now they survive in a decimated landscape that even some insects have left behind.

Christopher Schwede was a crack cocaine user and dealer who worked to keep drug supplies clean. Friends say his death may have been a ‘hot shot’ and is worthy of further investigation.

‘Not Thailand anymore’: Russians are flocking to Phuket — but not all is well in paradise

It’s hard for authorities to determine the line between an unintentional overdose and when a recreational drug was intentionally laced with a lethal substance such as fentanyl. Two cases in Thunder Bay with suspicious circumstances highlight the issue.

Antonina Romanova, a trans soldier in Bakhmut, faces threats on both sides. But “our commander doesn’t care who we are as long as we are good fighters.”

The Quewezance sisters have many things to get done and navigate for themselves, but beyond that, ‘I want to use my freedom to help other women suffering,’ said Odelia.

Quewezance, convicted with her sister in a killing her cousin confessed to, may be on the cusp of freedom. Why a visit to her home stirred old emotions.

As Ukrainian families fear for children taken by Putin, Russian charities fear growing crisis

Although women now represent half of the labour force, fewer than five per cent of Canadian companies have a woman CEO. Canada needs to better understand and address the societal stereotypes that continue to drive girls away from STEM.

Volodymyr Demchenko, one of Ukraine’s many ordinary citizens who volunteered to defend the country has survived many of the war’s most bloody battles — and is determined to fight to the end.

“I don’t want this fate for my country. And I don’t want it for Ukraine. It truly hurts for every victim.”

The war caught Svitlana Kuzminskaya by surprise. She was stuck in Mariupol, but separated from her sons in the city, then had to flee without them.

Chernivtsi built a reputation long ago as a humane, welcoming place. A flood of people displaced by Russia’s invasion are putting it to the test.

“The women are destroyed….I have never heard such horrors in my life.” “The enemy allowed them to continue living but their weapon destroyed their lives.”

‘A lot of our guys have died,’ said one soldier near besieged Bakhmut. ‘But as long as we have food, we will feed the dogs.’

‘A system of terror.’ Recently freed female PoWs detail Russia’s pattern of abuse.