Melissa Martin

Opinion: Seeing hometown anew both sobering and rousing

In the waning days of Ukraine’s tense summer, a soldier named Yaroslav stepped off a train in Odesa, the historic jewel of Ukraine’s southern coast on the shores of the Black Sea. He’d been granted a...

There was a time, late in the storm of my adolescence, when the dark clouds inside my head and home swirled so thick I struggled just to breathe. By Grade 12, as my mental health collapsed, every day...

In the spring of 2017, when I first learned the Free Press had tapped me to interview former United States president Jimmy Carter, the first thing I did was call my father. Carter was my American dad’...

There is something immensely satisfying in the prospect of beating Toronto. It’s not necessarily just about sport. It’s also about celebrating Winnipeg’s own story.

CHERNEVE, Ukraine — To this day, Darlene Clark remembers what her father, William “Gus” Wasiuta, always said when he was feeding birds in the yard, or shooing a fly out of the house. He’d always shoo,...

In Chornobyl, memories of the 1986 nuclear disaster are intertwined with the present dangers of war. The area is a poignant reminder of resilience amid destruction, a precarious existence shaped by past and present calamities.

Brent DePape, a retired federal government economist, has made multiple trips to war-torn Ukraine to help wherever he

KHARKIV, Ukraine — Luka huddled in the foxhole as the growl of Russian tanks crept closer, their steel tracks chewing at the grassy fields of eastern Ukraine. For over two hours, the 33-year-old Croat...

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — Katerina Seledtsova has a six-year-old son, whom she adores, but she also dreams of someday having a daughter. So in 2018, when she opened a bakery and coffee shop on a pretty, t...