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Bad Practice: How doctors jump borders to leave troubling pasts behind
In 2018, family physician Ken Shafquat Intikhab Abrahim was reprimanded by Florida’s medical board and banned from prescribing certain pain medications after being accused by officials of providing “potentially lethal” amounts of addictive drugs to patients. Four months later, he was reprimanded by North Carolina’s medical board for “willfully concealing” the Florida matter from them. … Read more
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INSIGHTS: Our way of thinking about informed consent has evolved over the last century. In a world of human guinea pigs, does it need to evolve further?
By Jonathan Moreno Jonathan Moreno retired as a Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, of History and Sociology of Science, and of Philosophy, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a prolific author and writer. The IJB report on so-called “professional guinea pigs,” people who loan their bodies to clinical research organizations (CROs) in… Read more
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Numerous dogs ‘humanely sacrificed’ as test subjects at private lab in Toronto area
The vast majority of Canada’s leading university research labs have stopped using dogs as test subjects in scientific research — a practice that Ontario Premier Doug Ford has promised to ban with forthcoming legislation. But pharmaceutical testing on dogs continues in lesser-known, often private research firms, including a large Scarborough research facility where the animals… Read more
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Myrialine Catule begins tenure as the fourth Canadian Journalism Foundation/Investigative Journalism Bureau Black Journalism Fellow
Myrialine Catule, recipient of the 2025 CJF-IJB Black Investigative Journalism Fellowship, will spend the next six months working on public-interest investigations with the IJB. “As an emerging journalist, I am proud to take my first step in the investigative field with the Investigative Journalism Bureau,” says Catule, a native Montrealer and recent graduate of Concordia… Read more
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Behind the Reporting: Jenna Olsen on exposing an Ontario hospital’s dog testing secrets
Walking through the sterile hallways of St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Ont., you would never think you are sharing the space with dogs. This is an environment where you expect heart attacks to be cured, not caused. What we discovered in our investigation into the use of dogs in cardiac arrest studies at the hospital… Read more
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INSIGHTS: Animal research is a failed research paradigm and not morally permissible
Ari Joffe, MD, FRCPC is a clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care at the University of Alberta, and a clinical professor (secondary) at the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta. He is also an attending physician in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, with a special interest… Read more
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‘Be ready in the morning’: Inside the sprawling online industry selling human smuggling services
A silver Toyota minivan pulls into a bank parking lot in Toronto’s west end. Two young Punjabi men step out and start looking around for their client, a woman they’ve been communicating with over the previous days through texts and calls. She has agreed to pay them $4,000 to be smuggled south across the border… Read more
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INSIGHTS: Thinking outside the cage – how to advance science without sacrificing animals
By Dr. Charu Chandrasekera Dr. Charu Chandrasekera is the founder and executive director of the Canadian Centre for Alternatives to Animal Methods (CCAAM). My career in biomedical research began twenty years ago with the prevailing conviction that animal experiments were essential to saving lives—the benchmark of a scientist’s impact. This belief remained unchallenged through years… Read more
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INSIGHTS: Is banning testing on dogs and cats the key to making animal research more ethical in Canada?
By Dr. Udo Schüklenk Udo Schüklenk is a Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University and the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics. Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s plan to outlaw scientific testing on dogs and cats has delighted pet owners across the province. But his proposal, announced in the wake of an Investigative Journalism Bureau report that… Read more
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Hospital commits to rehoming research dogs after IJB investigation
The Ontario hospital where dogs were used in heart attack studies for decades before the program was shut down last month has now committed to rehoming the animals. St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Ont., announced Wednesday that eight dogs that remained in its facility will be placed up for adoption by a “trusted and fully… Read more
