Behind the Reporting: Masih Khalatbari Uncovers the Hidden Truth About ‘Forever Chemicals’ in North Bay
On a cloudy day last spring, I found myself in the dining room of a home in North Bay. After a long drive from Toronto, I watched a deer stroll out from behind the... Read more.
Feds ‘covered up’ toxic forever chemicals in the water of this Ontario city for 5 years
The federal government concealed toxic water contamination in North Bay, Ont., for almost five years before warning residents of a dangerous chemical spill from... Read more.
‘Be ready in the morning’: Inside the sprawling online industry selling human smuggling services
A silver Toyota minivan pulls into a bank parking lot in Toronto’s west end. Two young Punjabi men step out and start looking around for their client, a... Read more.
Hospital announces end to “inhumane” dog research after IJB investigation
After decades of secretly inducing heart attacks in dogs as part of cardiac research, St. Joseph’s Hospital ended the practice on Monday in the aftermath of an... Read more.
U.S. crackdown on migrants is sending a surge of refugees to Canada
As fears of refugee deportation mount in the United States, a surge of asylum seekers is turning to Canada — only to find a border that is getting increasingly... Read more.
Trade war threats tank Canadian travel to the U.S.
Canadians are rethinking travelling to the U.S. amid trade war rhetoric, according to an IJB analysis of data from the Canadian Border Services Agency. We... Read more.
Growing number of Canadian households contain deadly levels of radon gas, national study finds
Exposure to deadly radon gas in Canadian homes continues to grow, according to a nationwide study conducted by University of Calgary researchers. Nearly 18 per cent... Read more.
Behind the Reporting: IJB Exposes Exploitative Cracks in the Clinical Trial Industry
I started working on this story as a 21-year-old IJB intern who knew nothing about clinical trials other than the ads I saw on the subway on my way... Read more.
Inside Canada’s ‘exploitative’ clinical trial industry, where study participants say they’re incentivized to lie — even about medications’ side effects
Seized with anxiety after days of painful cramps and bloody stool, Franco answered a call from the research company that had been dosing him with an experimental... Read more.
He suffers debilitating side effects from a common medication. A simple test could have spared him. Why won’t Ontario and other provinces make the tests more widely available?
The U.K. aims to make pharmacogenomic tests more accessible, saying systematic testing “has the potential to transform patient’s lives.”... 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.
Surge in medically assisted deaths under Canada’s MAID program outpaces every other country
Canada’s psychiatric community has been divided on the country’s emergence as a global leader in assisted death under the MAID program.... Read more.