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Some seniors are at risk of losing their homes in a scheme involving door-to-door equipment rental contracts, questionable renovations and mortgages worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that many didn’t know they had and can’t afford.

New Yorker staff writer Adam Gopnik learned to drive at age 55. It was just one of the ways Gopnik put himself through the ringer for his latest book, The Real Work, attempting to master a variety of skills from boxing and baking to magic and art.

The downing of the $30 million military drone is a dangerous milestone in the escalating war between the United States and Russia.

Mike Mullen, a retired admiral who served as chair of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, says he expects Western countries will eventually send fighter jets to Ukraine.

Canadian soldiers are on in Poland training their Ukrainian counterparts on how to use the Leopard tanks donated by the West. CBC News has exclusive access, to the firing range designed to teach battle-hardened Ukrainians on the sophisticated tanks sent by Canada and European nations.

By CAM TAIT

Canada's pre-war training mission helped Ukraine abandon the old Soviet playbook for fighting wars — a fact that could help explain why the war has gone so badly for Moscow.

Canadian soldiers have trained tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops on Western military tactics. Two Canadians involved in that training and a Ukrainian on the front line tell CBC's David Common how it has helped Ukraine survive this long.

It took interviewing a future president of the United States for journalist John Hendrickson to come to terms with his stutter.

Clandestine meetings at a car wash, promises of protection from the military, millions of dollars stuffed into suitcases... The scenes witnesses are describing at the ongoing corruption trial of Genaro García Luna, Mexico's former top security official, sound like they could be lifted straight out of a Narcos plotline. But as investigative journalist Tim Golden tells David Common, the trial is pulling back the curtain on decades of corruption, extortion and political interference from both...