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Egg freezing is a booming business in Canada. Here’s how women are oversold on the likelihood of success
Single and not quite ready to have children, Wing-Martins visited her family doctor in April 2025. The doctor referred her to a private clinic in Toronto. Wing-Martins booked a consultation to gather information. But she says she came away feeling overwhelmed — not just by the $9,000 price tag for the procedure, which did not… Read more
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IJB journalism honoured for groundbreaking reporting in 2025
The Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) has been recognized in thirteen prestigious journalism awards and accolades in Canada and beyond for work published in print and audio. Canadian 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… Read more
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Ontarians contesting involuntary care face low likelihood of success, IJB analysis shows
Heather Lafleur sought to convince a trio of strangers she shouldn’t be injected with powerful drugs against her will. She struggled to control herself during a March Zoom meeting convened by a provincial panel that hears appeals from people who have been deemed unable to make key medical decisions for themselves. She watched her psychiatrist… Read more
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Transfers of trans prisoners in Canada have fallen. An upcoming case will test gender policies
A trans prisoner was convicted of assaulting a 12-year-old girl and two women in 1998. Amanda Joy Cooper was living as a biological male at the time of the crimes. Cooper grabbed the girl while she was rollerskating in a parking lot, and told her, “I’ll rape you,” according to Quebec court documents. Days later, Cooper attacked a young… Read more
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Behind the Reporting: Exposing a government shift on First Nations water
You turn the tap. You drink. You cook. You wash. Drinkable, usable tap water has become so elemental in the lives of people in wealthy countries that its use is reflexive. But thousands of people in Canada lack it. They live in First Nations communities, many of which have had to go without drinkable water… Read more
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IJB Gets Action: Ontario nurses challenge labour law to address lack of minimum patient ratios
Ontario nurses have launched a constitutional challenge over an arbitration system they say puts healthcare workers and patients at risk – in part by refusing to cap the number of people nurses care for at a time. The ONA is targeting the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act which is used to adjudicate complaints by hospital… Read more
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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
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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
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‘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
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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
