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Behind the Reporting: Why it’s essential to tell prisoners’ stories
Prisoners are not popular. There is a tendency to assume that the people who wind up behind bars are bad guys who’ve done bad things and deserve bad things. Fallacies behind this assumption aside, whoever you are, whatever you’ve done, if you are human you have human rights. That is a fundamental tenet of a… Read more
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Ontario hospitals owed private banks $70 million last year — and one wasn’t sure it could even keep operating
Ontario hospitals, forced to borrow privately in order to keep the lights on, owed banks more than $70 million in operating loans by the end of fiscal year 2025-26, according to hospital financial statements. With 80 of the 129 Ontario hospital networks posting operating deficits last year, at least $1.45 million in public health-care dollars… Read more
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Hidden solitary: Canada’s growing use of prison isolation
It is Nov. 5, 2024. Over the course of half an hour, a hand-held camera follows Joey Toutsaint as prison guards forcibly remove him from a cell, then lead him through a hall, across a yard and into another building. The camera captures him pleading. “I’m not going to the observation cell. No. You guys… Read more
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The Investigators: Emma Jarratt
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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INSIGHTS: Should Canada remove the United States from the Safe Third Country Act?
Canada’s government has long talked about humanitarian values. Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Lena Diab told Parliament last year that the government “will not turn our backs” on refugees. Yet as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detain and brutalize migrants across the United States, Canada still refuses entry to most asylum seekers… Read more
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Behind the Reporting: What does a T-shirt really cost?
I often see photos of my high school self — wearing, for example, a cluttered Looney Tunes graphic tee with a floral overshirt and bright blue socks — and instinctively think, “How did my mother let me wear that?” For most of my life, clothing has been an afterthought. Each day, I simply dig through… Read more
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Freedom of information? Here’s what Ontario’s government doesn’t want you to know
We filed an FOI for refused FOIs. Here’s what we found. What communication did Ontario Premier Doug Ford have with developers who could have benefited from his removal of Greenbelt protections before he walked that back? What briefing notes did Ford receive related to Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport, which he wanted to expand? What was… Read more
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This deal has cut violence against women on factory floors, but many clothing brands won’t sign on.
At 12 years old, Deepa started working at a garment factory making clothes for less than one Canadian dollar a week. For most of her working life, the now 32-year-old southern Indian labourer says she has endured daily abuse from bosses, occasional beatings and little recourse. That fate changed three years ago. “There was a… Read more
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The Investigators: Brian Fitzpatrick
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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The Investigators: Courtney Greenberg
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
