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I travelled to Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago because President Trump says that the men it kills are members of “designated terrorist organizations.”

What I found in the homes and communities of four men who were murdered told a story very different from the president’s.

Canada’s birth rate is now among the lowest in the world, reflecting not only economic strain but a deeper shift in how young people think about family, work and the future. This conversation asks whether the decision to have fewer children is a necessary adaptation to an uncertain world or a choice with long-term consequences.

Most Canadians who follow Cuba closely agree the communist government has a dismal human-rights record and that ordinary Cubans are suffering. They disagree sharply on whether pressure and sanctions will liberate those Cubans — or bury them. 

A huge American city has been a hub of grassroots resistance to Donald Trump’s mass-deportation plans. Some of it involves early morning driving patrols looking for ICE.

Amarjot Singh says he joined a peaceful Sikh protest but found himself a marked man.

He left his family behind at dawn. ‘When your city is being bombed, and someone is suffering,’ Serhii told me much later, ‘there is no time to think of anything else.’

Canadian health care is failing to deliver the standard of care many Canadians expect. Should Canada open the door to a parallel, private tier of health care or dedicate itself to fixing Medicare?

Should Canada shift its focus from owning to making renting more attractive?

Florida offers a preview of what Trump promises to spread across North America: pushing LGBTQ+ people to society’s edge.

Florida is a harbinger of what Trump could do to America: push marginalized groups even further toward's society's margins, endangering their safety and their very existence.

Dr. Marvin Dunn’s unlikely revolution in Republican Florida.

“With Trump coming back, I am very worried about the safety of migrants,” a charity worker said. “Many will have to return to the dangers they were escaping in their homelands.”

Chris Halls, a 53-year-old college-educated father, is battling a severe opioid addiction. He says his survival depends on Moss Park Consumption Treatment Services, one of the harm reduction sites the Ford government plans to shut down.

At the same time as the government is pumping new cash into rehab, it is slashing funding from another pillar of drug recovery: harm reduction.

I hope we can all be awakened to the need for peace by thoughts of civilians in Lebanon — like the Hemo children who ask only how they can find a safe place to live another day.

Yulia Goroshanska speaks about loss, motherhood, trauma and starting over after the city’s devastating siege

Svitlana’s story reveals the long, grinding toll of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, felt not only in shattered homes and lives lost, but in families torn apart. 

Mariana’s story is a reminder of what Putin’s war has not been able to destroy — the courage of ordinary people, the instinct to shield one another and the defiant persistence of hope.

He left his family behind at dawn. ‘When your city is being bombed, and someone is suffering,’ Serhii told me much later, ‘there is no time to think of anything else.’

This young mother once struggled to survive. Now she’s a lifeline for Ukraine’s most vulnerable. 

Scholars have come to share the perspective that this war is a pivotal conflict with consequences for the entire globe

“I thought I could come to Canada and live for myself,” says a survivor of the Mariupol destruction. “But the war has changed me.”

A United Nations commission has found that war crimes against civilians by Russian forces and federal police were widespread and included deliberate killings, rape, torture and the kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian children to Russian territory.

Leysa Lavrenova has witnessed first-hand the different experiences of women and men on Ukraine’s front line. She is a soldier fighting on two fronts — defending her country from Russian aggression and combating stigma at home.

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.

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

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 Ford government is betting on nuclear plants to provide steady power. But wind and solar have become some of the world’s cheapest sources of new electricity. So, is Ontario headed in the right direction? Where should Ontario’s new power come from?

The Greenbelt debacle revealed deep flaws in Ontario’s housing policy. But the scandal drowned out the important question of how to protect the Greenbelt while still building the homes people need.

The overwhelming rejection in a referendum on giving Indigenous groups a constitutional voice has many looking for ways to keep up the fight for recognition and reconcilation

Dennis’s personal recovery from addiction’s wreckage parallels his community’s emergence from the chaos of its own night of terror generations ago.

Quewezance sisters and Indigenous elders invited the Star on parts of a journey laden with emotion and also risk. They hope that sharing their anguish and resolve will prompt the release of unjustly imprisoned Indigenous women.

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.

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

Hwiemtun cleanses collective trauma through sweat-lodge ceremonies

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.

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.

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.

Does compassion means giving people control over how they die — or fighting harder to help them live?

Eight thousand Canadians die from toxic drugs every year — a crisis that has torn through Michelle Green’s family twice and is threatening to tear through it again.

Chris Halls, a 53-year-old college-educated father, is battling a severe opioid addiction. He says his survival depends on Moss Park Consumption Treatment Services, one of the harm reduction sites the Ford government plans to shut down.

At the same time as the government is pumping new cash into rehab, it is slashing funding from another pillar of drug recovery: harm reduction.

As Canada rethinks harm reduction, Portugal's novel approach offers valuable insights

As Canada grapples with a severe national drug crisis, experts say the country’s prisons are overwhelmed.

Drinkers might delight in Ontario’s booze bonanza, but Scotland’s strategy is saving lives.

On the streets of Victoria, addicts and those who care about them have mixed feelings about the return of criminalization, and they have a warning for Toronto.

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.

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.

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

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

Why prospective parents are turning to social media for sperm donations. “I was in such a place of desperation, thinking, ‘Just give me the baby, and I will figure everything else out later.’”