CBC News | Kharkiv, once an IT hub for Ukraine, has had many of its highly-mobile tech workers flee for western Ukraine and to other parts of the world. Despite the sector’s success, trouble remains in eastern cities that struggle to lure residents back.

CANADALAND | Through an extensive investigation, it has been found that government officials misled the public about the “mysterious” New Brunswick neurological disease, and both provincial and federal governments have abandoned the pursuit of scientific research to find its root cause.

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS | Finding a sense of purpose amid chaos, Ukrainians around the world are finding ways to raise funds and secure supplies for the resistance effort, leading to record-setting remittances flowing into the country.

THE NARWHAL | Farmers wait, desperate for rain, in a prolonged season of extremely dry conditions across central Canada where both provincial and federal governments have intervened with emergency adaptation measures.

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS | It often begins with something benign, like rallying the support of the people to a cause. But often that cause is pitted in distortions of truth, manipulated historical events that give people a common purpose and identity — often a common enemy. Here’s what the United States could learn from Eastern Europe’s path toward populism.

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE | As its energy industry comes under threat, Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta is taking aim at environmental activists.

TORONTO STAR | Tentative peace agreement that would see local elections held and then regional autonomy is sparking protests by those who see it as a capitulation to Russia.

CBC NEWS | LGBT rights, abortion access and child tax incentives are all issues that are top of mind for Poles as they approach their next parliamentary election that is likely to deliver another decisive win to the populist Law and Justice Party.

ATLAS OBSCURA | Her signature graced the permits hanging in the elevators for over a decade. Eventually, people started wondering: Who is this invisible yet ubiquitous engineer who keeps us safe as we fly up and down in these careening metal boxes?

CBC NEWS | Hungary’s new ‘Stop Soros’ laws are the tip of the iceberg given the country’s slide toward authoritarian rule, accompanied by possible EU sanctions.

CBC NEWS | A year and a half ago Amanda Blanchette's brother and her two-year-old niece were killed. As the trial for the man facing first-degree murder charges in their deaths begins, she hopes the world will focus on the good in their lives instead of the horror of their deaths.

CBC NEWS | ISIS killed Talal Jarbo Sliman's three brothers and all he got was a letter letting him know they were gone. Refugee camps hold the stories of what it was like to live under ISIS rule.