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, wh...

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 sta...

New data obtained by the IJB shows a dramatic rise in the use of observation and dry cells—a form of hidden solitary confinement in Canadian prisons that disproportionately impacts Indigenous inmates.

This deal has cut violence against women on factory floors, but many clothing brands won’t sign on.

Jodi says she remembers her hands shaking as her married pastor — the man she had for months been told to call “dad” — pulled her onto his lap on a cream-coloured couch in his ministry office. Just 16...

Ana Paula Kitterhing De Sousa never missed a text message from her daughter. But when Raquel Almeida Margulies texted a habitual “sweet dreams, mama,” at 10:28 p.m. on Oct. 15, 2023, the text was left...

Metal-on-metal hip devices have been known to cause pain, potential metal poisoning and the need for additional surgeries in some patients. But they continue to be used for hip resurfacing.

An Ontario judge has rejected an incarcerated transgender woman’s request to move to a women’s prison – part of a broader trend first identified in a recent Investigative Journalism Bureau probe. Aman...

Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s two cottage-country hospitals are not built for mental health care.  Yet hundreds of people come to them every year in need of it. And the hospitals’ emergency departmen...

We’ve all gotten medical advice we didn’t follow. But sometimes you’re deemed too sick – too crazy – to ignore medical advice.

Dangerous levels of lead continue to threaten children’s health in Ontario. The IJB database of lead levels in the drinking water of schools and daycares across the province has been updated to includ...

The Michele Landsberg Award recognizes journalism that advances awareness of women’s equality issues through a gendered lens. It is an extraordinary honour, particularly because it carries the name of...

Fertility Inc. is a multi-part series by the Investigative Journalism Bureau that delves into the Wild West of the egg-freezing industry, its aggressive marketing, the high cost and the chances of an ...

Canada is watering down its commitment to First Nations water rights as it fights in court against First Nations fighting for drinking water.

A major U.S. dog breeder embroiled in controversy over the alleged inhumane treatment of its animals is donating all of its animals following protests, a criminal investigation and an agreement to giv...

Fertility Inc. is a five-part series by the Investigative Journalism Bureau that delves into the Wild West of the egg-freezing industry: its aggressive marketing, its high costs, and the chances of an...

At age 29, Lianne Wing-Martins began thinking seriously about having a baby. She’d been hearing about egg freezing for years, through social media and advertising by celebrities who made it seem like ...

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Heather Lafleur sought to convince a trio of strangers she shouldn’t be injected with powerful drugs against her will. She struggled to control herself during a March Zoom meeting convened by a provin...

A trans prisoner was convicted of assaulting a 12-year-old girl and two women in 1998. Amanda Joy Cooper was living as a biological male at the time of the crimes. Cooper grabbed the girl while she wa...

Ontario nurses have launched a constitutional challenge over an arbitration system they say puts healthcare workers and patients at risk – in part by refusing to cap the number of people nurses care f...

Ontario nurses have launched a constitutional challenge over an arbitration system they say puts healthcare workers and patients at risk – in part by refusing to cap the number of people nurses care f...

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is playing legal hardball with First Nations fighting for clean drinking water — and First Nations are fighting back. Interviews and hundreds of pages o...

Ontario has become the first province in Canada to prohibit invasive medical research on dogs and cats.  Amendments to Ontario’s Animals for Research Act that passed a final vote in the legislature on...

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B.C. is set to become the first province to settle a class-action lawsuit over birth alerts — the practice of child welfare workers contacting pregnant people’s medical practitioners, frequently resul...

Ontario lawyer Gavin McNeill Grant impregnated a 17-year-old Crown ward, showed off pictures of her in lingerie to his coworker, and assaulted two women, including a client-turned-girlfriend, accordin...

Hamdi Lataj is a convicted bank burglar who police suspected once trafficked drugs with Mexican kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and who was targeted in an illegal gambling and money-laundering case ...

An upcoming ruling could allow women the chance to file civil claims against men who leverage their disabilities to perpetuate abuse.

One of the best ways to lose friends at a party is to bring up freedom-of-information legislation.  Try it the next time you want to escape an awkward social interaction. “Oh, that is so interesting. ...

At least two Canadian hospital research labs have imported dogs for scientific research from a U.S. breeder cited for repeated animal care violations, the Investigative Journalism Bureau has found. Th...

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has a problem with dangerous levels of lead in drinking water at some of its schools, according to a new report from the Canadian Environmental Law Associatio...

Ashley Chand spent more than a decade working her way up through the ranks of human resources and administration positions at some of Vancouver’s most prestigious law firms. When she landed the job of...

I sit at my desk in the warm afternoon light and listen to the young Indigenous woman on the computer screen in front of me recount the three times she was almost killed by a man. A survivor of sex tr...

QUEEN’S PARK, Thursday, Jan 5 – Ontario’s NDP party is demanding urgent changes to hospital funding based on new data published by the Investigative Journalism Bureau.  “When our hospitals cannot make...

Ontarians can now access the key financial information of their hospital by using the Investigative Journalism Bureau’s Ontario Hospital Finance Explorer.  By searching the name of their local hospita...

Eleanor Hubley Manor is a modest, beige one-storey apartment building just off a highway interchange near Halifax. As part of the province’s subsidized housing network, it is home to about eight tenan...

Indigenous women and girls are killed at rates six times higher than non-Indigenous women — yet the perpetrators are frequently convicted of lesser offences than those guilty in the deaths of non-Indi...

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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 s...