Updates

  • 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
  • ‘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

    ‘Deeply troubling’: Pediatric journal’s fictional cases affect more than 2,000 studies
  • ‘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

    ‘Mission Abort’: Inside a derailed human smuggling operation on the Canadian border
  • 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

    Canada is terrible at tracking maternal deaths
  • 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

    Mothers are suffering injury, death during childbirth in Canada. Here’s why it still happens
  • 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

    INSIGHTS: Recognizing femicide in the criminal code