Updates

  • Toronto Star invests in Investigative Journalism Bureau’s collaborative reporting model

    TORONTO, Oct. 15, 2021 /CNW/ – The Toronto Star is furthering its commitment to powerful collaborative journalism through a $100,000 contribution supporting the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB), a pioneering non-profit newsroom based at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health. The IJB, which launched last fall in partnership with the Dalla Lana School’s journalism programs – the Fellowship… Read more

    Toronto Star invests in Investigative Journalism Bureau’s collaborative reporting model
  • Toronto rethinks mental health policing amid calls for reform

    As the number of apprehensions of youth in mental health crisis spike across Canada, concern is growing over their impact on vulnerable young minds, an Investigative Journalism Bureau investigation has found. Read more

    Toronto rethinks mental health policing amid calls for reform
  • Collaborator Profile: Jodi Upton

    From time to time, the IJB profiles those we work with. Up next is Jodi Upton, an award-winning journalist who teaches data and digital journalism at the Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications. She lead a team of 15 student reporters for Generation Distress. What was it like for you working with such a… Read more

    Collaborator Profile: Jodi Upton
  • IJB Audio Brief: Toxic Supply

    Canada’s street drug supply is being increasingly contaminated with a new category of “ultra-potent” opioids as overdose deaths soar. The presence of these synthetic opioids — some far more powerful than fentanyl — has quadrupled in tests of street drugs in Toronto alone, from less than one per cent before the COVID-19 pandemic to four… Read more

  • New ‘ultra potent’ opioids hitting Toronto streets in recent weeks as overdose deaths mount

    Researchers say border closures and drug supply chain disruptions have spurred the creation of dangerous new illicit drugs and compounds. Read more

    New ‘ultra potent’ opioids hitting Toronto streets in recent weeks as overdose deaths mount
  • IJB and U of T Faculty of Law partner on real-world investigative media law training

    The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is offering a new media law externship for students to explore legal and policy issues facing journalists in a real-world environment. Beginning in fall 2021, students will be immersed in the work of IJB reporters as they uncover and report ground-breaking public interest stories. This part-time, full-year program… Read more

  • Investigative Journalism Bureau and Seeman family partner to advance mental health journalism

    A $25,000 contribution from entrepreneur and mental health advocate Neil Seeman to the Investigative Journalism Bureau, matched by the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, boosts the IJB’s investigative reporting The Mary and Philip Seeman Mental Health Investigative Journalism Fund is being launched to support the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Investigative Journalism Bureau.… Read more

    Investigative Journalism Bureau and Seeman family partner to advance mental health journalism
  • IJB Audio Brief: Lead in Drinking Water

    Moving forward, we will be releasing short audio briefs explaining the stories we report. They’re meant to be a quick way to learn what we’re working on. We hope that you’ll listen. First up in this new feature is reporter Inori Roy discussing the recent investigation into lead in the drinking water of Ontario schools… Read more

  • A third of Ontario schools still have dangerous levels of lead in drinking water – two years after the province pledged to fix it. Search our database to see the results

    The most recent data shows one in 10 water quality tests from Ontario schools and daycares found lead levels above Health Canada’s maximum accepted concentration of 5 parts per billion (ppb), a Toronto Star/Investigative Journalism Bureau investigation has found. See the results in our database. Read more

    A third of Ontario schools still have dangerous levels of lead in drinking water – two years after the province pledged to fix it. Search our database to see the results
  • Collaborator Profile: Ebyan Abdigir

    The IJB profiles our collaborators from time to time. Ebyan Abdigir is a multimedia journalist and producer in Toronto. She has worked in all mediums of journalism: community radio, print, digital, broadcast radio, TV and podcasts. Her work has appeared in the CBC, Toronto Star, and more.  Ebyan was part of a team that spent… Read more

    Collaborator Profile: Ebyan Abdigir