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Nilab still remembers the day Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021. She was at the bank trying to pay for her sister’s passport in preparation for fleeing the country.  Dressed in a red suit from work and with her hair uncovered, every taxi driver refused to take her home. Nilab, 29, …

For decades, Sherri Topple’s world was overshadowed by the crushing weight of depression that no medication or therapy seemed to fix. It wasn’t until she tried ketamine therapy that she finally felt a sense of relief.  At her worst, the Nova Scotia woman says she could barely muster up the …

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged that the country’s top health agency will pinpoint the cause of autism by September, an announcement that sparked a wave of concern among medical experts and advocates, who question the feasibility and focus of the research. Kennedy — a longtime vaccine critic who has …

After Doug Ford’s significant majority victory in Ontario, one might think Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre would be racing to cozy up to the premier for help in winning the crucial battleground province in the federal election. Poilievre, however, said he hasn’t approached the Ontario Progressive Conservative leader for assistance. Ford, meanwhile, indicated he won’t be …

The Cure is a CBC News series examining strategies provinces and territories are using to tackle the primary care crisis. Kristen Walsh pores over the journal she uses to log everything she can about managing her multiple chronic medical conditions without a family doctor. Walsh, who lives in Conception Bay …

The collapse of a food court roof at a shopping mall in northwestern Peru killed six people and left at least 78 others injured, the country’s defence minister said Saturday. The heavy iron roof at the Real Plaza Trujillo shopping mall, a city in the La Libertad region of northern …

Late last year, a man Kelsey Diaz knew said he had seen her intimate photos online, but he refused to offer more information about it. She assumed he was lying to her.  This week, as the existence of an online server harbouring that material became more public, she learned that …

If you walk into an Old Navy or browse online, you’re bound to find huge discounts offered and hot deals aplenty. But an investigation by CBC’s Marketplace has found some of those bargains are not what they seem. ​Marketplace tracked the price of items sold at two major retailers — …

This First Person column is written by Elizabeth Barnes, who runs an education centre in Ottawa. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. Five years and nine months after my breast cancer diagnosis, I received a phone call from my physician’s office reporting a slightly abnormal result of a routine blood test. …

At soccer games in Ukraine, crowd sizes are determined by the capacity of the nearest bomb shelter. For the first time since the full-scale war began in 2022, the Ukrainian Premier League is holding a full season with fans present, as martial law bans on public gatherings have been eased. …