By Anna Mehler Paperny and Dori Seeman – Investigative Journalism Bureau
Heather Lafleur sought to convince a trio of strangers she shouldn’t be injected with powerful drugs against her will.
Behind the Reporting: Exposing a government shift on First Nations water
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Investigative Journalism Bureau
You turn the tap. You drink. You cook. You wash.
Drinkable, usable tap water has become so elemental in the lives of people in wealthy countries that its use is reflexive. But thousands of people in Canada lack it. They live in First Nations communities, many of which have had to go without drinkable water for decades.
Canada’s government is playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Investigative Journalism Bureau
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.
Canada is terrible at tracking maternal deaths
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Emma Jarratt – Investigative Journalism Bureau
The first blood clot was about the size of an avocado.
Ontario is failing to learn its lessons on childbirth tragedies
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Annushka Agarwal – Investigative Journalism Bureau
Samantha Hemmings stood in the operating room entrance, watching her sister Sophia on the table.
“Help me, please,” she recalls her sister saying. “I can’t breathe.”
What’s at stake in Canadian transparency tussles
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Investigative Journalism Bureau
One of the best ways to lose friends at a party is to bring up freedom-of-information legislation.
Holes in my head. Wires in my brain
By Anna Mehler Paperny – The Globe and Mail
Your brain feels no pain, so I am unable to tell you in any satisfying way about the exact moment the first electrode was implanted, eight contacts nestling in my subgenual anterior cingulate cortex.
Canada turns back more asylum-seekers to US despite third-country deportation risk
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
Canada’s government is sending more asylum-seekers hoping to file claims in Canada back to the U.S. under a bilateral pact, even as the U.S. says it may deport them to third countries.
Some of the people Canada is turning back should be eligible to file refugee claims in Canada, lawyers say, under exemptions to the Safe Third Country Agreement.
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