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.

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.

Conlin McCabe placed fourth in men’s pairs at the Tokyo Olympic Games — capping an Olympic rowing career that saw him win two medals over three games. But upon his retirement from the sport, the 31-year-old Brockville native faced an uncertain future.

Talking Taboo was created by the Dalla Lana Fellows in Global Journalism at the University of Toronto. Katharine Lake Berz is a co-anchor and contributor of Afghan Taboos. Women who live without a man or work outside the home in Afghanistan are breaking Taliban laws some of which are punishable by death.