Adel Zadeh is a 34-year-old Iranian biomedical engineer in Ardabil, in northwestern Iran, living with what some U.S. dermatologists call “the most painful disease you’ve never heard of.”

He has epidermolysis bullosa (EB), a rare genetic disorder that makes the skin so fragile it blisters at the slightest touch. Daily life involves constant pain, hours-long wound care a...

“When a power outage hits, the first thing you feel is a sense of paralysis,” says Jorge González Nuñez, president of the Student Christian Movement of Cuba (MEC-C), during a brief moment with electricity in Cuba’s capital, Havana.

Cuba has been facing severe energy shortages since U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January threatening tariffs on ...

The wooden furniture in the Supreme Court of Canada’s main courtroom was installed in 1948 as a side quest by a company much more revered for its speciality: pipe organs. Based in Saint-Hyacinthe, Que., Casavant Frères was founded in 1879 by the sons of Joseph Casavant, a former blacksmith whose passion project was building organs.

Joseph, a music lover, began studying...

Kiki Keskinen is a witch. She’s also a journalism professor at Carleton University, an entrepreneur and a former PR professional, but it’s the reference to witchcraft that always raises a few eyebrows. She jokes that she often pauses after introducing herself, giving people a moment to process the “I’m a witch” job description. Witchcraft has shaped her life since childhood a...

Recently, we published the story of Samantha O’Neill, whose transfer from St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, B.C., became the centre of a case highlighting tensions around faith, funding and access to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada. In respo...