For at least four years, Ontario officials have known that the provincial safety limit for lead in drinking water doesn’t go far enough to protect the public, newly released documents show. But despite internal proposals about taking action, and dialogue with municipalities regarding changes, no new lead quality standard has been introduced. Officials at the […]| 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
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 […]| 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
