Learning to live after loss

Loss comes in many forms - whether it's losing a loved one, losing your self-confidence, or losing your sense of home.

On this Now or Never, hear how people are learning to navigate life after a loss. 

Meet the Louis Riel Voyageurs, a high school AAA hockey team in Manitoba who haven't won a game in two years. Nickolas Semenchuk, Charleaux LaFreniére, and Teo Pelletier-Lavack share what compels them to keep hitting the ice during a 50-game losing streak. 

When comedian Shohana Sharmin lost her mother Hasina Sultana to cancer in 2017, it changed everything. Today Shohana is on a mission to bring the complexity of grieving onto comedy and theater stages everywhere.

Olivia Malley used to wear a H-cup bra for her large breasts, and she never understood why this small part of her became such a large piece of her identity. After breast reduction surgery, she's lost 2.5 pounds of tissue but gained a newfound sense of confidence.

Since the murder of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg, there have been calls to search two landfills for their remains. We visit a protest camp outside one of the landfills and hear from Cambria Harris, the daughter of a victim, who will not rest until her mother is brought home.

And when Russian forces invaded Ukraine last year, Maxim Shatalkin and Olga Kudriakova made the decision to leave their home in Moscow - saying goodbye to family, friends, and their careers as world renowned piano virtuosos. A few months after they landed in Montreal, they wanted to reclaim a part of the life they'd lost, so Olga approached Maxim with a proposition— to teach piano lessons to Ukrainian refugees.