Florence MacLeod Harper was one of the few Western women to cover the Russian Revolution of 1917, but almost no one knows this Canadian's story.

When Andy Huynh's sister forwarded him a CBC story about Vietnamese boat people, he never expected to see his own face staring out from one of the photos used to illustrate the tale of how more than 70,000 refugees were brought to Canada after the end of the Vietnam War.

It took six hours by bus, three by boat and a last stretch on foot wading through waist-high water to reach the Malaysian refugee camp where Canadian immigration officials interviewed some of the 70,000 Vietnamese refugees who were brought to Canada in 1979. Two former visa officers reflect on the physically and emotionally gruelling diplomatic adventure.

For Iranian-born, Toronto-based author Marina Nemat, Concordia University professor Homa Hoodfar's arrest in Iran last weekend was a case of dj vu. Thrown into the same notorious prison in 1982 when she was just 16, Nemat spent three years in Evin, enduring beatings and rape. She spoke with CBC News about Hoodfar's case and her own experience.