‘Deeply troubling’: Pediatric journal’s fictional cases affect more than 2,000 studies
More than 2,000 academic papers have cited or based some of their content on fictional case studies that have now been retroactively corrected by Canada’s leading... Read more.
Why Ontario hospitals are turning to bank loans to stay afloat
More than 60 per cent of Ontario hospitals were in the red at the end of the 2025 fiscal year, and many, including some of the largest in the country, have turned... Read more.
INSIGHTS: An expert shares lessons from the Flint, Michigan water crisis that could reduce lead in Ontario’s schools
Siddhartha Roy is a research associate at the Water Institute within the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. The IJB’s ongoing investigation into drinking... Read more.
INSIGHTS: How transparent are health charities with your donations?
Dr. Blair Bigham is an assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and senior editor at the Investigative Journalism Bureau. He trained in not-for-profit... Read more.
INSIGHTS: Who’s policing clinical trials? Often, no one.
A bioethicist sheds light on the shadowy world of phase one clinical trials, where new drugs are tested on humans for the first time in a broken system of incentives... Read more.
Ontario nurses protest over patient ratios in the wake of IJB investigation
Nurses took to the streets last month at 26 hospitals in 15 cities across Ontario – including Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa – days after the IJB published a story... Read more.
Behind the reporting: The struggles of nurses in Ontario
I work in Ontario hospitals, and my reverence for nurses cannot be overstated. I see their commitment to patients every day I go to work. I also see their... Read more.
Ontario nurses raising alarm over high patient loads that put patients at risk, internal reports reveal
Nurses in the Niagara Health System are facing overwhelming patient loads that are undermining care and risk triggering staff burnout, according to internal hospital... Read more.