The treatment meant to save Niibin Pahpeguish’s life began to feel like a prison. After almost a decade battling an addiction that began with prescribed painkillers and later escalated to street opioids, she entered a treatment program in 2009. There, at a facility in Brantford, Ont., she was put on methadone, a drug prescribed to […]| 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
We rely on health care workers in some of our most vulnerable moments. It’s no secret that the system they work in is under strain, and those on the front lines providing acute care are overworked and often under-supported. But what about the unique challenges faced by mental health workers? Mental health care has evolved […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
The Investigative Journalism Bureau is pleased to introduce Heliograph: Snapshots, short stories behind the reporting at the IJB. Hosted by our own Ryan McMahon, this offering is part of the Heliograph podcast series sharing the stories behind the stories of some of the world’s greatest investigative reporting. In this episode, IJB director, Robert Cribb of […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
There have been calls for a systemic overhaul of monitoring systems following an international investigation by 48 media partners in 46 countries — including Canada’s Investigative Journalism Bureau. The collaboration, led by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the Times of London and Norway’s VG, detailed how physicians in Europe and North America have sometimes skirted sanctions, avoided […] The post Health officials call for action following ‘Bad ...| 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
Nurses took to the streets last month at 26 hospitals in 15 cities across Ontario – including Toronto, Hamilton and Ottawa – days after the IJB and the Toronto Star published a story on how nurses are overburdened by unregulated patient loads. Low nurse-to-patient ratios can significantly undermine the quality of care and cause staff […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
A bioethicist sheds light on the shadowy world of phase one clinical trials, where new drugs are tested on humans for the first time in a broken system of incentives and lies.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Canadians are celebrated for being generous, and sometimes, it can leave people open to exploitation.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Nurses in the Niagara Health System are facing overwhelming patient loads that are undermining care and risk triggering staff burnout, according to internal hospital... Read more.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
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Ontario’s hospitals are in a state of crisis. COVID-19 pushed them over the brink, but the problems afflicting hospitals are longstanding. To give the Ontario public an inside look at the failures and triumphs of the province’s hospitals, we are publishing several years’ worth of patient-survey data obtained for the first time through dozens of […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Naama Weingarten worked with the IJB on a range of investgations including The Patient Files, which was nominated for three national awards. She currently works with CBC Toronto| 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
By Mama Fatima Singhateh Ms. Singhateh is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Sale, Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of Children. She was appointed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2020. When I assumed my function as the UN Special Rapporteur, I decided that one of my thematic priorities would be on the […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Siddhartha Roy is a research associate at the Water Institute within the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
INSIGHTS: An expert shares lessons from the Flint, Michigan water crisis that could reduce lead in Ontario’s schools| Investigative Journalism Bureau
INSIGHTS: An expert shares lessons from the Flint, Michigan water crisis that could reduce lead in Ontario’s schools| Investigative Journalism Bureau
By Jonathan Moreno Jonathan Moreno retired as a Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, of History and Sociology of Science, and of Philosophy, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a prolific author and writer. The IJB report on so-called “professional guinea pigs,” people who loan their bodies to clinical research organizations (CROs) in […] The post INSIGHTS: Our way of thinking about informed consent has evolved over the last century. In a world of human guinea pigs, does ...| 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
Myrialine Catule, recipient of the 2025 CJF-IJB Black Investigative Journalism Fellowship, will spend the next six months working on public-interest investigations with the IJB. “As an emerging journalist, I am proud to take my first step in the investigative field with the Investigative Journalism Bureau,” says Catule, a native Montrealer and recent graduate of Concordia […] The post Myrialine Catule begins tenure as the fourth Canadian Journalism Foundation/Investigative Journalism Bu...| 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 […] The post Behind the Reporting: Jenna Olsen on exposing an Ontario hospital’s dog testing secrets appeared first on Investigative Journalism Bureau.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Ari Joffe, MD, FRCPC is a clinical professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care at the University of Alberta, and a clinical professor (secondary) at the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta. He is also an attending physician in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, with a special interest […] The post INSIGHTS: Animal research is a failed research paradigm and not morally permissible appeared first on Investigative Journalism Bureau.| 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
By Dr. Charu Chandrasekera Dr. Charu Chandrasekera is the founder and executive director of the Canadian Centre for Alternatives to Animal Methods (CCAAM). My career in biomedical research began twenty years ago with the prevailing conviction that animal experiments were essential to saving lives—the benchmark of a scientist’s impact. This belief remained unchallenged through years […] The post INSIGHTS: Thinking outside the cage – how to advance science without sacrificing animals a...| Investigative Journalism Bureau
By Dr. Udo Schüklenk Udo Schüklenk is a Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University and the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics. Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s plan to outlaw scientific testing on dogs and cats has delighted pet owners across the province. But his proposal, announced in the wake of an Investigative Journalism Bureau report that […] The post INSIGHTS: Is banning testing on dogs and cats the key to making animal research more ethical in Canada? appeared first on Investig...| Investigative Journalism Bureau
By Allison Leyton-Brown Allison Leyton-Brown is an award-winning composer, pianist, and musical director who has collaborated with the IJB on two podcast projects, Arachnid: Uncovering the Web’s Darkest Secrets and The Ultimate Choice. Both series are hosted by the IJB’s Rob Cribb and produced by Susanne Reber of Piz Gloria Productions in partnership with TVO. […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Featured stories IJB Updates Innovate. Collaborate. Illuminate. The Investigative Journalism Bureau is an impact-driven, collaborative newsroom, bringing together professional and student journalists, academics, graduate students and media organizations to tell deeply-reported stories in the public interest. Help us reach our goal of $250,000 Over the past four years, we’ve fought countless battles for public records, […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Nurses protest at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ont. Blair Bigham/IJB| Investigative Journalism Bureau
The most recent data shows one in 10 water quality tests from Ontario schools and daycares found lead levels above Health Canada’s guideline.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
People with severe disabilities have been told a wheelchair ramp costs more than an assisted death. Living in poverty and food insecurity have also been linked to the demand for MAiD.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Dr. Gail Tomblin Murphy is an international expert in health workforce planning and research and the key architect behind the needs-based planning model. She is the past Vice President of Research, Innovation, and Discovery and Chief Nurse Executive at Nova Scotia Health. She is now Director of Dalhousie University’s PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre, providing technical guidance […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
The IJB is proud to welcome two journalism students from the University of King’s College, continuing a partnership with one of Canada’s top journalism programs.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Still on a high from wins at the Canadian Screen Awards in late May, the newest member to the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB), Ryan McMahon, says joining the newsroom feels like the natural next step in his evolution as a storyteller. McMahon’s docuseries Thunder Bay earned three nominations, taking home awards for best factual series […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Bad Practice: How doctors jump borders to leave troubling pasts behind | 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
INSIGHTS: Our way of thinking about informed consent has evolved over the last century. In a world of human guinea pigs, does it need to evolve further?| 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
Ontario’s Patient Ombudsman Craig Thompson discusses how hospital complaints can drive systemic improvements in healthcare.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Kelly Turner is the operations manager of Care Opinion Canada, a program of the Alberta-based non-profit Imagine Citizens Network that enables patients, families, and healthcare professionals to share their experiences with health and social care services. Health systems around the world are awakening to a critical truth: when we truly listen to those who use […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
As fears of refugee deportation mount in the United States, a surge of asylum seekers is turning to Canada — only to find a border that is getting increasingly hard to cross. The number of refugee seekers processed by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) has shot up by 87 per cent between January and […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
A registered nurse reacts to an IJB investigation which found nurses working in acute medical units at Niagara Health Services hospitals were sometimes assigned 10 patients each.| Investigative Journalism Bureau
An expert in lead poisoning prevention asks why government officials continue to allow drinking water to be poisoned by lead. Dr. Bruce Lanphear is a Health Sciences professor at Simon Fraser University. Bruce led influential studies used by federal agencies around the world to set standards for harmful levels of lead in air, paint, water, […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Behind the Reporting: Wendy-Ann Clarke reflects on child sexual abuse investigation for Arachnid podcast| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Ontario First Nations leaders are demanding federal politicians commit to reforming what they call a failing national program to support mental health in their communities. In a report released Tuesday, the Chiefs of Ontario — which represents the leadership of 133 First Nations across the province — outlined federal election priorities which include pressing all […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
Panel: How Journalism Can Serve as a Vehicle for Knowledge Mobilization| Investigative Journalism Bureau
The Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) and Unifor are proud to celebrate five years of partnership in supporting the next generation of investigative journalists through the IJB/Unifor Summer Internship Program. Since its launch in 2021, this initiative has provided young reporters with the opportunity to conduct in-depth research and reporting on major public interest issues, including […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau
IJB founder and director Rob Cribb joins host Tony Chapman on the Chatter That Matters podcast to discuss the vital role of investigative journalism in today’s democracy. Cribb has received both national and international reporting awards for his investigations into offshore tax evasion, child exploitation, human trafficking, dangerous doctors, environmental hazards, and public safety. He was part […]| Investigative Journalism Bureau