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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.