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Not Criminally Responsible: New IJB data reveals systemic failures that end in death
Ana Paula Kitterhing De Sousa never missed a text message from her daughter. But when Raquel Almeida Margulies texted a habitual “sweet dreams, mama,” at 10:28 p.m. on Oct. 15, 2023, the text was left curiously unanswered. At 9:25 a.m. the next day, Raquel began to worry. “Ola, mama,” she texted again. No response. The… Read more
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Thousands of Canadians implanted with metal hip devices despite warnings of pain and complications
Tony Kinney thought the metal device implanted in his hip by a surgeon in 2006 would relieve his pain. But instead, he says, it left him living in anguish and unable to work. “I can’t do anything. I’ve lost everything I own, house and possessions,” he says. Metal-on-metal hip devices, like the kind Kinney received,… Read more
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Maternal deaths are tragic, but they are only part of the story
Recent reporting by the Investigative Journalism Bureau on maternal deaths in Canada, and the creation of a public maternal death tracker, shine a spotlight on outcomes that are thankfully rare but devastating when they occur. These efforts are important: we cannot prevent what we do not measure. As a perinatal epidemiologist, I spend much of… Read more
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The Investigators: Wendy-Ann Clarke
Every day, our reporters and researchers pound the pavement, dig through troves of documents, analyze massive databases and ask tough questions in order to unearth important truths in the public interest. The Investigators turns the spotlight on them, asking them to share what drives them, what challenges them and why they choose the difficult work… Read more
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When help means losing choice: The reality of rural mental health care
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s two cottage-country hospitals are not built for mental health care. Yet hundreds of people come to them every year in need of it. And the hospitals’ emergency departments must somehow meet that need. Partly as a result, about 99 per cent of the psychiatric admissions at these two hospitals in 2024-25 were… Read more
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Judge’s denial of transgender inmate’s transfer request highlights trend reported by IJB
An Ontario judge has rejected an incarcerated transgender woman’s request to move to a women’s prison – part of a broader trend first identified in a recent Investigative Journalism Bureau probe. Amanda Joy Cooper, 59, has a history of violent sexual assaults against women, many committed while she was living as a man in Quebec… Read more
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We’re not counting every maternal death – and it threatens even more lives.
Dr. Giulia Muraca, PhD, is a perinatal epidemiologist and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact at McMaster University. When Canadians think about maternal death, they often imagine a catastrophic emergency in the delivery room: a severe hemorrhage, a life-threatening infection, or a dangerous spike… Read more
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Vinesha Ramasamy: The Patient Files Documentary
A routine biopsy changed her life. For years, Vinesha Ramasamy sought answers to what went wrong in the surgery that left her in debilitating pain. But after the hospital visit is over, the answers aren’t easy to come by. Her story is one of thousands found in Ontario hospital patients surveys obtained by the Investigative… Read more
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Behind the reporting: How, and why, we dug into medical coercion
We’ve all gotten medical advice we didn’t follow. Get more exercise? With what free time? Eat less meat? No, thank you. Eight hours of sleep a night? Lol, I’ll get right on that. But sometimes you’re deemed too sick – too crazy – to ignore medical advice. Tens of thousands of times a year, Ontarians… Read more
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Six years of lead data shows Ontario schools and daycares still harbour hazardous levels in water
Dangerous levels of lead continue to threaten children’s health in Ontario. The IJB database of lead levels in the drinking water of schools and daycares across the province has been updated to include six years of findings drawn from drinking water taps. The IJB reviewed more than 175,000 lead test results between 2019 and 2025.… Read more
