Feds vow to probe findings of IJB/Star/TVO investigation on mental health care for Indigenous people
The federal government will investigate concerns about therapists with troubling backgrounds approved to provide mental health care to First Nations and Inuit p... Read more.
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.
‘Deeply troubling’: Ontario chiefs call for reforms to federal health program after Star/IJB investigation
One of the largest Indigenous organizations in Canada is calling for sweeping reforms to a federal health benefits program that covers mental health care servic... 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.
‘I am deeply troubled’: Head of Ontario law society speaks out after Star/IJB investigation into sexual harassment among lawyers
The head of Ontario’s law society says she is “deeply troubled” by the level of sexual harassment, violence and discrimination within the profession. Jacq... Read more.
Your lawyer could be under investigation for sexual misconduct against clients. Why won’t Ontario’s law society tell you?
Shannon needed a lawyer. The Toronto hairstylist was facing a slew of charges, including assault, threatening death, and breaking and entering. As she stood in ... 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 experimenta... Read more.
Ontario First Nations sue the federal government over alleged deadly underfunding of fire protection on reserves
The federal government’s “discriminatory” underfunding of fire protection on First Nation reserves is responsible for Indigenous people perishing in blaze... Read more.
Celebrating Our Collaborative Success at the IJB & IRE Cross-Border Conference
When I first pondered the idea of hosting an international investigative journalism conference in Toronto, I dismissed it as momentary mental instability. It wa... Read more.
Lead-tainted drinking water at Ottawa-area public schools and daycares prompts parent concerns and action
When Dr. Nicole Shadbolt discovered the drinking water her son consumes at his Ottawa high school had tested positive for elevated levels of lead, she took acti... 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.
They need new homes, roads and schools. But Indigenous communities across Canada ‘can’t catch up’ thanks to staggering $349B infrastructure gap
In Cat Lake First Nation, there’s only ever enough money to build three new houses a year. For the community of 680 people northwest of Sioux Lookout, Ont., t... Read more.