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. […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
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 […] The post Numerous dogs ‘humanely sacrificed’ as test subjects at private lab in Toronto area appeare...| Investigative Journalism Bureau
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 […] The post ‘Be ready in the morning’: Inside the sprawling online industry selling human smuggling services appeared first on Investigative Journalism Bureau.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Toronto criminal defence lawyer Andrew Menchynski’s professional profile on the Law Society of Ontario website is spotless. It lists no current or past regulatory issues and no restrictions on his practice. What the public can’t see is that since September 2022, Menchynski had been subject to criminal charges for alleged assault, forcible confinement and possession of a […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
