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Behind the reporting: Emma Jarratt reflects on the alarming rates of ‘femicide’ in Canada
Two days before the IJB’s femicide story published, I felt the emotional heaviness begin to set in. The federal government had just proposed sweeping changes to the Criminal Code that would, for the first time, add the term femicide to the list of offences a person can commit. On paper — and certainly in the moment of… Read more
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The ‘insane’ number of women being killed in Canada
Since 2019, at least 1,329 women and girls have been killed or died in Canada under suspicious circumstances — one victim every other day. A new IJB analysis uncovered damning statistics that experts say points to a systemic problem. When police kicked down the front door of a London, Ont. townhouse in July 2024, a… Read more
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Cocaine and bananas: Fruit shipments from Ecuador president’s family firm allegedly used to smuggle drugs
An encrypted chat allegedly between Balkan drug traffickers shows them bragging about having exclusive rights to smuggle cocaine alongside bananas in shipping containers exported by the Ecuadorian president’s family firm. A confidential Croatian prosecution document shows two people, using the encrypted messenger platform Sky ECC and identified only by anonymous PIN numbers, boasting in a… Read more
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Heliograph LIVE: Jennifer Fraser on how the “gaslit brain” rewires us
In this episode, host Rob Cribb reconnects with author and researcher Dr.Jennifer Fraser, whom he first met in 2014 while reporting on allegations of physical and emotional abuse involving young athletes in Victoria, B.C., including her son. Fraser’s experience propelled her into a distinguished career studying the neuroscience of abuse. Her latest book, The Gaslit… Read more
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‘This is the new slavery’: Migrant farm workers underpaid, abused and injured
Harvesting cannabis in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley as a migrant labourer in 2023, Maria recalls being surprised when her boss invited her and two friends for dinner at his home in the nearby mountains. It was an evening of dancing, drinking and lounging in a hot tub — rare luxuries for the then-28-year-old Mexican who… Read more
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IJB Gets Action: Ontario unveils legislation to restrict invasive medical research on dogs and cats
The Ontario government has introduced draft legislation that aims to restrict invasive medical research on dogs and cats. It is the first proposed law of its kind in Canada, triggered by an Investigative Journalism Bureau investigation in August that detailed cardiac research on dogs inside St. Joseph’s Hospital in London. The research involved inducing hours-long… Read more
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Canadian courts often ignore minimum sentences for child porn, data shows
Courts across Canada have been issuing sentences for years that were less than the mandatory minimum for possession of child sexual abuse material, the Investigative Journalism Bureau has found. The government announced this week it will propose amendments that would allow the reinstatement of the mandatory minimum. The announcement follows public and political outrage over the Supreme Court’s decision last month… Read more
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Surgeries without anesthesia, severed vocal cords: The dog farm supplying an Ontario lab
For more than a decade a massive Ontario research lab has been importing dogs for scientific experimentation from a U.S. breeder with a history of serious animal cruelty allegations. Scarborough, Ont.-based Nucro-Technics, which bills itself as Canada’s largest contract research facility, has repeatedly purchased test study dogs from Ridglan Farms, a large-scale breeder based in… Read more
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When lawyers have a mental health crisis, how should regulators balance public protection and professional recovery?
By Jessie R. Gomberg Jessie Gomberg is a Ph.D. Student at the University of British Columbia’s Allard School of Law. Her research focuses on professional regulation in Canada. If a lawyer appears in court to represent her client but she is experiencing an acute mental health crisis, what should a provincial regulator do? During articling,… Read more
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Your doctor could be receiving payments from a drug company. Why won’t anyone tell you?
In Canada, when a doctor hands you a prescription, you trust that what’s been recommended is the best drug for your health. What you can’t know is whether your physician has benefited financially from a relationship with the company that made the drug — and whether that relationship has affected the drug advice you got.… Read more
