Canada’s Indigenous mental health program is meant to be a lifeline. Instead, it’s so mired in red tape it seems ‘set up to deter people from accessing’ care
Soon after psychologist Leigh Sheldon opened a mental health clinic in Edmonton in 2021, the desperate calls for help started pouring in. Each call carried an I... Read more.
A murder conviction. Sex with an ex-client. Defending residential schools. Critics are alarmed at background of therapists approved for Indigenous mental health program
Dr. Oren Amitay has posted online an article defending Indian Residential Schools. The Toronto psychologist has publicly lauded “the facts” of a social... Read more.
Toxic lead showing up in Ontario school and daycare drinking water as evidence of serious health dangers grows
In the past four years, nearly half the province’s public schools have had at least one test for toxic lead in drinking water exceed the federal safety guidel... Read more.
Canadian officials found radiation levels in these northern Ontario homes ‘well above’ the safe limit. Their response: ‘¯\_(ツ)_/¯’
The number of homes in Elliot Lake affected by buried radioactive waste could top 100 — twice as many as previously thought.... Read more.
Here’s what happened to overdose deaths in Toronto neighbourhoods with safe consumption sites
Study in The Lancet shows dramatic results within 500 metres of supervised consumption sites after they opened.... Read more.
Ontario hospitals asked patients about the care they received. Results were kept secret — and pleas for change went ignored
We obtained years’ worth of patient survey data from more than 50 Ontario hospitals and health
networks. Search our database to see how they scored.... Read more.
‘Let them eat as much as they want.’ Big Sugar sponsors dietitians’ favourable posts on social media. Experts say Canadian regulators need to intervene
A U.S. consumer protection agency slammed the Canadian Sugar Institute for ‘irresponsible’ marketing. Authorities here have been comparatively quiet.... Read more.
‘I thought I was safe’: Federal government’s radon advice creates a false sense of security
Health Canada defends its policy while a chorus of experts and cancer patients say a change would save lives When Traci Burke tested her home for deadly radon a... Read more.
Illegal health and beauty products pose safety risk
An Investigative Journalism Bureau/Toronto Star investigation found more than 100 products that Health Canada officials confirmed have not been approved for sal... Read more.
These dangerous health products were supposed to be pulled from shelves. A popular Ontario retailer sold them to us anyway
Ontario program to make roads safer is ensnaring drivers who pose no threat, imperiling livelihoods and sowing distrust, Star/IJB investigation finds.... Read more.
She found out she’d been breathing a cancer-causing gas for over a decade. So why won’t Canada’s health-care system let her get her lungs tested?
Canadians with documented levels of elevated radon in their homes are ineligible for publicly funded lung cancer screening, which is only for heavy smokers.... Read more.
Radiation is homeowners’ problem, Canadian nuclear regulator says
Radiation levels in and around homes in Elliot Lake, Ont., are due to “naturally occurring nuclear substances,” says safety commission.... Read more.