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.

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.

The trauma of women and children who have been attacked, tortured and raped by Russian soldiers is leaving victims in a dark place. Many have nowhere to turn for help.

Many who have experienced violence from Russian attacks, lost a parent or have no home to return to are in deep distress

Three Ukraine soldiers, including a pregnant medic, survive six months in a squalid Russian prison to tell their stories

Beyond dealing with the physical horrors, panic attacks, insomnia, flashbacks, anxiety and depression affect majority of patients

“Women struggle with sexual assault, even in peacetime, but in war it’s impossible,” said Masha Efrosinina. “I cannot imagine their trauma.”

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.’

Once influential Afghan professional engineers, government leaders and journalists now live in poverty as refugees in border countries

Half of Canadian women feel unprepared and three quarters who sought medical advice found it lacking

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

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.

I have seen Angela Davison, known as Rainbow Eyes, transform from a quiet fugitive to a transformational leader.

Photogenic they may be. But the mammals’ diet may be upsetting the balance of B.C.’s marine ecosystem.

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.

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.