In the past four years, nearly half the province’s public schools have had at least one test for toxic lead in drinking water exceed the federal safety guideline, an analysis by the Investigative Journalism Bureau has found. That lead-laced water could have impacted more than 800,000 students in roughly 2,300 elementary and high schools in […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
When Dr. Nicole Shadbolt discovered the drinking water her son consumes at his Ottawa high school had tested positive for elevated levels of lead, she took action. The family physician immediately had the blood of her 13-year-old son Christopher tested after a recent IJB investigation revealed that his school’s drinking water contained lead levels exceeding […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Many staff inside the country’s leading mental health institution say they are suffering their own trauma from a toxic workplace rife with discrimination and bullying. Anonymous employee feedback from health-care providers at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) include widespread staff complaints about a work culture they say left them with mental health challenges including […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
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
This Canadian cancer charity tells the public it spends most of its donations on charitable works. Financial records tell a different story| 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 […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Canada’s Indigenous mental health program is meant to be a lifeline. Instead, it’s so mired in red tape it seems ‘set up to deter people from accessing’ care| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Hospital managers responding to the Niagara workload complaints dismissed calls for higher nurse staffing levels, the records show.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
We obtained years’ worth of patient survey data from more than 50 Ontario hospitals and health networks. Search our database to see how they scored.| 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
