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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.
Black Canadians’ chances of getting kidney transplant hurt by race-based adjustment
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.
B.C. conservation group moves thousands of salmon that will produce millions of eggs
Tim Kulchyski says salmon used to be so plentiful off Vancouver Island that they would shake his Cowichan ancestors’ dugout canoes as they collided in the waters of the Salish Sea.
‘Here comes another madman’: Ukraine’s painful echo for Polish Canadians who fled Soviets
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.
Should Canada forgive the Taliban? Afghan voices from both sides of a divided and desperate land
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.