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If we can joke, we're still alive, say Ukrainians using standup comedy as an outlet in Canada

A growing group of Ukrainians who've found themselves in Canada after Russia's invasion of their home country are using standup comedy to tell their stories and raise funds to help support the war effort back home.

The war in Ukraine, through the eyes of the country's documentary filmmakers

This year's 'Made in' series at the Hot Docs Festival in Ukraine features 10 films showcasing a year of life under war. All are available to watch online in Canada until May 9.

'We lived on cigarettes': Canadian describes hiding out in embassy during Tiananmen Square massacre

In the spring of 1989, Diana Lary was the resident sinologist at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing watching with hope and anticipation as Chinese students took to the streets demanding political reform and freedoms. But when the protests were violently crushed that June, she risked her personal safety to retrieve Canadians caught up in the chaos.
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'Master of persuasion': Why Brian Mulroney's NAFTA playbook remains relevant 25 years later

Through the long lens of history, politicians are sometimes remembered more kindly than in their own time. Political scientist Fen Hampson believes that former prime minister Brian Mulroney falls into that category and should be lauded not only as the architect of NAFTA but for his "activist" international policy.

Canadian journalist Florence Harper covered the Russian Revolution, but almost no one knows her story

Florence MacLeod Harper was one of the few Western women to cover the Russian Revolution of 1917, but almost no one knows this Canadian's story.
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New Gorbachev biography profiles reformer who helped end Cold War but has no place in today's Russia

Mikhail Gorbachev set out to reform the Soviet Union more than three decades ago and ended up presiding over its collapse and ushering in the end of the Cold War. Today, he remains a pariah in a Russia that is in a period of renewed authoritarianism and tensions with the West.
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'He cherished freedom': Wang Dan remembers fellow Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo

Wang Dan, one of the leaders of the 1989 pro-democracy protest in China, talks to CBC News about Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and fellow Tiananmen Square protester who died in prison.

'That photo took him back': Vietnamese refugee recognizes himself in CBC story about boat people

When Andy Huynh's sister forwarded him a CBC story about Vietnamese boat people, he never expected to see his own face staring out from one of the photos used to illustrate the tale of how more than 70,000 refugees were brought to Canada after the end of the Vietnam War.

'Wading ashore through waist-high water': Ex-diplomats on gruelling work of rescuing Vietnamese boat people

It took six hours by bus, three by boat and a last stretch on foot wading through waist-high water to reach the Malaysian refugee camp where Canadian immigration officials interviewed some of the 70,000 Vietnamese refugees who were brought to Canada in 1979. Two former visa officers reflect on the physically and emotionally gruelling diplomatic adventure.

Q&A with Marina Nemat: Author who survived Iran's Evin prison reflects on Homa Hoodfar's arrest

For Iranian-born, Toronto-based author Marina Nemat, Concordia University professor Homa Hoodfar's arrest in Iran last weekend was a case of dj vu. Thrown into the same notorious prison in 1982 when she was just 16, Nemat spent three years in Evin, enduring beatings and rape. She spoke with CBC News about Hoodfar's case and her own experience.