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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
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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
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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
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‘Deeply troubling’: Pediatric journal’s fictional cases affect more than 2,000 studies
More than 2,000 academic papers have cited or based some of their content on fictional case studies that have now been retroactively corrected by Canada’s leading pediatric journal, the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) has found. Paediatrics & Child Health, published by Oxford University Press for the Canadian Paediatric Society, publicly announced in February the blanket… Read more
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‘Mission Abort’: Inside a derailed human smuggling operation on the Canadian border
In a rural farming region south of Montreal, a narrow trail slices through the forest, separating Hemmingford, Que., from Mooers, New York. Through text messages sent at around 2 a.m. on Jan. 22, 2025, two alleged human smugglers prepare to send clients southbound, from Canada into the U.S., through the snow-covered woodlands on foot. “Be… Read more
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Canada is terrible at tracking maternal deaths
The first blood clot was about the size of an avocado. Beatrice Mikkola, 30 years old, was exhausted. She had just arrived home from the hospital, having survived a postpartum hemorrhage while giving birth to her first child. She was trying to care for a newborn. And she was passing blood clots from her vagina.… Read more
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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
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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
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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. 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 prize, presented… Read more
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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
