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Canada has expanded eligibility to the medical assistance in dying program to include those who aren’t actually dying, removing the requirement that applicants have a fatal or terminal condition that would make their natural death “reasonably foreseeable.” The controversial change has contributed to a jump in the number of Canadians ending their lives upon request.

An Ontario program designed to make roads safer is ensnaring drivers who pose no threat, imperiling livelihoods and sowing distrust, IJB/Toronto Star investigation finds.

Canada’s hate problem is reaching new heights, but its justice system has failed to dissuade prolific purveyors of hate and discrimination who repeatedly target vulnerable groups.

The IJB profiles those who work with us from time to time. To conduct our high-impact investigations, we collaborate with academics, journalists, media organizations, researchers and students, among others. The purpose of these profiles is to highlight the important contributions to our projects by bright minds outside of our organization.

An analysis of newly obtained data on opioid overdoses across the country — including numbers from provincial coroners, street drug tests in Ontario and B.C., and a previously unpublished national drug user survey — reveals a national crisis spiking into uncharted territory during the pandemic.

Two years after journalists revealed that nine per cent of schools and daycares in Ontario exceeded national safety guidelines for lead in drinking water, the scale of the problem remains unchanged. The most recent data shows one in 10 water quality tests from Ontario schools and daycares found lead levels above Health Canada’s maximum accepted […]

One in five homes tested nationwide showed radon levels exceeding Health Canada’s guideline of 200 becquerels per cubic metre (Bq/m³). The scale of the problem has been captured in six years’ worth of test results from 30,000 homes across Canada, believed to be the largest and most detailed body of results collected in this country. 

One in five Canadian youth are part of a mental health crisis that is undermining—and far too often ending—their lives as they struggle to find effective help that may never arrive. Generation Distress reveal spiking demand for youth mental health services, the pressure on educational institutions and governments, and innovative solutions emerging to address the crisis.