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  • Mothers are suffering injury, death during childbirth in Canada. Here’s why it still happens

    Samantha Hemmings stood in the operating room entrance, watching her sister Sophia on the table. “Help me, please,” she recalls her sister saying. “I can’t breathe.” In the spring of 2009, Sophia went into cardiac arrest while undergoing a caesarean section. She suffered an anoxic brain injury: for crucial minutes, her brain was deprived of… Read more

    Mothers are suffering injury, death during childbirth in Canada. Here’s why it still happens
  • INSIGHTS: Recognizing femicide in the criminal code

    Charlotte Volet is a Gender Equality Advisor at Lawyers Without Borders Canada, where she has worked since 2020. She holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Transitional Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and was involved with Projet Accompagnement Québec-Guatemala from 2018… Read more

    INSIGHTS: Recognizing femicide in the criminal code
  • IJB journalism honoured for groundbreaking reporting in 2025

    The Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) has been recognized in five prestigious journalism awards in Canada and beyond for work published in print and audio.  Hillman Prize for Journalism Arachnid: Hunting the Web’s Darkest Secrets, a podcast by the Investigative Journalism Bureau, TVO Today and Piz Gloria Productions, has won a prestigious Canadian Hillman prize.  The prize,… Read more

    IJB journalism honoured for groundbreaking reporting in 2025
  • Behind the Reporting: Is your hospital in good financial health?

    This story was originally published by TVO In a scene from The Pitt, emergency department attending Dr. Robby, played by Noah Wyle, explodes at the CEO of a Pittsburgh hospital after being told that the budget can’t support additional beds. Wyle describes patients “coding in waiting rooms” and threatens to tell the media that the hospital’s cost-cutting… Read more

    Behind the Reporting: Is your hospital in good financial health?
  • Who is Hamdi Lataj, the Balkan ex-bank burglar living large among Canada’s A-listers?

    Hamdi Lataj is a convicted bank burglar who police suspected once trafficked drugs with Mexican kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and who was targeted in an illegal gambling and money-laundering case involving alleged members of Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia. Today, he lists his address as being in one of Toronto’s most exclusive condo towers. He sits… Read more

    Who is Hamdi Lataj, the Balkan ex-bank burglar living large among Canada’s A-listers?
  • Arachnid podcast awarded prestigious Hillman prize

    Arachnid: Hunting the Web’s Darkest Secrets, a podcast by the Investigative Journalism Bureau, TVO Today and Piz Gloria Productions, has won a prestigious Canadian Hillman prize.  The prize, presented annually by the Sidney Hillman Foundation, awards Canadian journalists who seek out stories that change lives, expose important social and economic injustices in Canada and bring… Read more

    Arachnid podcast awarded prestigious Hillman prize
  • IJB reporters featured on TVO’s Big [If True] weekly series

    IJB founder and director Rob Cribb, alongside reporters Emma Jarratt and Stacey Kuznetsova, were featured on TVO Today’s weekly series Big [If True], hosted by Molly Thomas. The series explores the impact of misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and online scams on everyday life. The episode, which originally aired on Sunday, March 22, profiles the Investigative… Read more

    IJB reporters featured on TVO’s Big [If True] weekly series
  • Behind the Reporting: Detained while documenting dog-breeding operation

    Pictures tell a story. Sometimes, the process of gathering them is a story in itself.  Over the past three months, I’ve been working on a cross-border investigative project examining the little-known purpose-bred dog breeding industry in the U.S. These large-scale breeders specialize in supplying dogs to scientific researchers for experimentation in the development of drugs and… Read more

    Behind the Reporting: Detained while documenting dog-breeding operation
  • INSIGHTS: The Supreme Court has a chance to protect women with disabilities who suffer from coercive control

    Ena Chadha is a senior human rights lawyer, educator, investigator and mediator and Chair of the Human Rights Legal Support Centre. Ena served as co-counsel to DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada in presenting DAWN’s intervener case before the Supreme Court of Canada in Ahulwalia v. Ahulwalia. An upcoming Supreme Court of Canada ruling could reshape… Read more

    INSIGHTS: The Supreme Court has a chance to protect women with disabilities who suffer from coercive control
  • Behind the reporting: What’s at stake in Canadian transparency tussles

    One of the best ways to lose friends at a party is to bring up freedom-of-information legislation.  Try it the next time you want to escape an awkward social interaction. “Oh, that is so interesting. It makes me think of my last access-to-information request.” If that doesn’t work, just add, “And can you believe what… Read more

    Behind the reporting: What’s at stake in Canadian transparency tussles