Behind the Reporting: Measuring the justice system’s response to the killings of Indigenous women and girls
I sit at my desk in the warm afternoon light and listen to the young Indigenous woman on the computer screen in front of me recount the three times she was almost... Read more.
IJB Gets Action: Ontario NDP demands changes to hospital funding model after IJB investigation
QUEEN’S PARK, Thursday, Feb 5 – Ontario’s NDP party is demanding urgent changes to hospital funding based on new data published by the Investigative... 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.
‘The justice institution has failed us’: The numbers behind the Indigenous femicide crisis in Canada
Indigenous women and girls are killed at rates six times higher than non-Indigenous women — yet the perpetrators are frequently convicted of lesser offences than... Read more.
The ‘insane’ number of women being killed in Canada
Since 2019, at least 1,329 women and girls have been killed or died in Canada under suspicious circumstances — one victim every other day. A new IJB analysis uncovered... Read more.
IJB Gets Action: Ontario unveils legislation to restrict invasive medical research on dogs and cats
The Ontario government has introduced draft legislation that aims to restrict invasive medical research on dogs and cats. It is the first proposed law of its kind... Read more.
Surgeries without anesthesia, severed vocal cords: The dog farm supplying an Ontario lab
For more than a decade a massive Ontario research lab has been importing dogs for scientific experimentation from a U.S. breeder with a history of serious animal... Read more.
Your doctor could be receiving payments from a drug company. Why won’t anyone tell you?
In Canada, when a doctor hands you a prescription, you trust that what’s been recommended is the best drug for your health. What you can’t know is whether your... Read more.
Ontario failed to toughen rules on lead in water despite advice, documents show
For at least four years, Ontario officials have known that the provincial safety limit for lead in drinking water doesn’t go far enough to protect the public,... Read more.
Bad Practice: How doctors jump borders to leave troubling pasts behind
In 2018, family physician Ken Shafquat Intikhab Abrahim was reprimanded by Florida’s medical board and banned from prescribing certain pain medications after being... 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.
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.