Updates

  • Liberals are playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water

    Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is playing legal hardball with First Nations fighting for clean drinking water — and First Nations are fighting back. Interviews and hundreds of pages of court documents reviewed by the IJB reveal this marked shift primarily on three fronts. In Alberta, Canada pulled the plug on settlement talks involving four… Read more

    Liberals are playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water
  • IJB Gets Action: Ontario bans testing on dogs and cats as activists protest York University’s primate research

    Ontario has become the first province in Canada to prohibit invasive medical research on dogs and cats.  Amendments to Ontario’s Animals for Research Act that passed a final vote in the legislature on Thursday will change the face of animal experimentation across the province and could trigger similar change elsewhere across Canada. “Ontario has shown… Read more

    IJB Gets Action: Ontario bans testing on dogs and cats as activists protest York University’s primate research
  • ‘Conduct of the worst sort’: Canadian lawyers and child sexual misconduct

    Ontario lawyer Gavin McNeill Grant impregnated a 17-year-old Crown ward, showed off pictures of her in lingerie to his coworker, and assaulted two women, including a client-turned-girlfriend, according to a decision of Ontario’s Law Society Tribunal. In all, Grant, who worked as a criminal lawyer in Owen Sound, Ont., engaged in what two provincial Law Societies called a… Read more

    ‘Conduct of the worst sort’: Canadian lawyers and child sexual misconduct
  • B.C. to settle class action over birth alerts that separated newborns from mothers

    B.C. is set to become the first province to settle a class-action lawsuit over birth alerts — the practice of child welfare workers contacting pregnant people’s medical practitioners, frequently resulting in apprehending babies shortly after birth, interrupting the mother’s care and bonding. The practice officially ended in B.C. in 2019. Most other Canadian jurisdictions have also… Read more

    B.C. to settle class action over birth alerts that separated newborns from mothers
  • IJB welcomes distinguished young journalists as Unifor summer interns

    Two talented journalists are joining the Investigative Journalism Bureau this summer as part of an annual internship that is developing the next generation of investigative reporters in Canada.  Shaina List and Vihaan Bhatnagar were selected from a group of the country’s most promising young reporters for this year’s competitive IJB/Unifor Investigative Summer Internship program funded… Read more

    IJB welcomes distinguished young journalists as Unifor summer interns
  • World Press Freedom Canada recognizes IJB’s Jenna Olsen

    Last week, Jenna Olsen received the coveted Press Freedom Student Achievement Award for her reporting on puppies being secretly tested and killed at an Ontario hospital in the name of human heart research. This prestigious award honors an outstanding student journalist who has demonstrated a commitment to press freedom. “I am honoured to receive this… Read more

    World Press Freedom Canada recognizes IJB’s Jenna Olsen
  • Controversial dog breeder Ridglan set to release 1,500 dogs 

    A controversial U.S. dog breeder at the centre of a police showdown with activists attempting to free the animals last month is releasing 1,500 dogs to animal welfare organizations.  Ridglan Farms, a massive Wisconsin-based dog breeding operation featured in a recent report by the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB), has produced thousands of beagles for scientific… Read more

    Controversial dog breeder Ridglan set to release 1,500 dogs 
  • At York University’s primate lab, allegations of bruises, bloody wounds and escapes

    WARNING: This story contains graphic content After more than a day of scratching at his protruding brain implant until it bled, Kenny, a research macaque who lives inside a York University lab, reportedly pulled out the implant from his right ear, revealing an oozing wound. Kenny is one of at least nine research macaques held… Read more

    At York University’s primate lab, allegations of bruises, bloody wounds and escapes
  • INSIGHTS: Canada’s seasonal farmworkers program amounts to slavery

    Syed Hussan is the executive director of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, a membership based organization of migrant farm and fishery workers, care workers, students, refugees and undocumented people fighting for immigration and employment justice. Sixty years after then-immigration minister Jean Marchand called binding migrant workers to one employer “slave labour,” the United Nations… Read more

    INSIGHTS: Canada’s seasonal farmworkers program amounts to slavery
  • Are Ontario Hospitals Taking Out Loans to Survive? – IJB reporters on TVO’s The Rundown

    The IJB’s Blair Bigham and Stacey Kuznetsova appeared on TVO’s The Rundown to discuss their investigation on how Ontario hospitals are relying on bank loans to cover basic operating costs. Tune in to hear what they found and how the hospital sector is responding. Read more

    Are Ontario Hospitals Taking Out Loans to Survive? – IJB reporters on TVO’s The Rundown