Many Ukrainian refugees arrived in Canada with professional experience and advanced qualifications, but some have struggled to find work that matches their previous careers.
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New research on Ukrainian refugees’ employment outcomes reveals that higher education does not always translate into better employment recovery after displacement.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, meet in Calgary, Alta., on Sept. 10, 2026.
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If prospective recruits come to expect a job-market cost after voluntary war service, Russia may find it harder or more expensive to attract volunteers.
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These five books take readers through time and across Ukraine.
Smoke billows into the sky following Ukrainian drone strikes on warehouses of Russia’s online retailer Wildberries, in St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 24, 2026, with St. Isaac’s Cathedral seen in foreground.
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Despite successful Ukrainian drone strikes, it’s unlikely either Vladimir Putin’s regime or the Russia-Ukraine war will end any time soon.
Demonstrators hold a portrait of the Ukrainian army’s commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, demanding his resignation during a rally to denounce President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s decision to dismiss Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov after six months in the post, in Kyiv on July 18, 2026. Zelenskyy obliged.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Defense Minister Fedorov and Gen. Syrskyi amid military tensions. What does it mean for the country’s war effort?
Ukraine’s decision to rebury OUN leader Andriy Melnyk with state honours and rename a special forces unit after the wartime Ukrainian Insurgent Army has created a rupture with Poland. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Kyiv on June 3, 2026.
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Two years after Canada’s parliament unwittingly gave a standing ovation to a veteran of a Nazi SS division, Ukraine’s own president is honouring figures from the same dark chapter of wartime nationalism.
Kharkiv Puppet Theatre’s performance of Tdyatochka (The Little Woodpecker) in the Kharkiv metro in 2022.
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In Ukraine puppet shows have become tools of resistance, support and relief for a country at war.
A police boat patrols the waters of the Moskva River near Red Square, which is decorated for the celebration of the 81st anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
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Moscow’s influence is Eastern Europe has been slipping of late, including with the loss of a stalwart ally in Hungary. The battleground, as ever, remains Ukraine.
A Ukrainian serviceman stands on a drone training field in eastern Ukraine in November 2025. Recent Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian energy infrastructure is proving effective.
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Canada helped build local government capacity in Ukraine before the war. The Council of Europe’s Congress has now called on the world to do so again. Canada should answer the call.
A banner reading, ‘Regrettably, Putin did not die today. We are waiting …’ hangs in the City Garden of Odesa, Ukraine, on April 1, 2023.
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Ukraine may need a major, system-level change or crisis in Russia to regain any lost territories.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacts during a joint news conference with the Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin in Dublin, Ireland, on Dec. 2, 2025.
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The Ukraine peace plan negotiated between the U.S. and Russia is a non-starter for Ukraine, and also puts the country in the unenviable position of saying no to a mercurial American president.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with U.S. representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner (both not pictured) on Dec. 2, 2025.
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Building in safeguards, including third-party monitoring, can increase the chances of a successful peace by almost a third, research shows.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attend a G7 session on Ukraine and defence co-operation during the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., on Nov. 12, 2025.
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Expectations for peace between Russia and Ukraine should be tempered until there’s a presidential summit between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin and until their signatures are on a treaty.
Screens at the Munich Airport show diverted and canceled flights after the airport suspended operations due to possible Russian drone sightings on Oct. 3, 2025, in Munich.
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Russian military and economic weaknesses are apparently forcing Putin to use unconventional means to secure victory against Ukraine.
Firefighters gather on a destroyed roof in Wyryki, Poland, to inspect a damaged house after multiple Russian drones struck.
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Throughout its war with Russia, Ukraine is providing lessons to the West on what’s required to win a modern-day war. Will European and other states heed those lessons?
A rescuer looks at a damaged city hospital that was hit by a Russian guided air bomb in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 25, 2025.
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Ukraine is managing to survive what could be Russia’s last chance at decisive victory if Donald Trump is serious about his ceasefire threats to the Russian regime.
Professor of Strategic Studies at the Marine Corps University School of Advanced Warfighting; Scholar-in-Residence, American University School of International Service