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Reality Check: Canada’s record on refugees

September 4, 2015December 12, 2015amp Leave a comment

September 4, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny and James Armstrong, Global News

As the image of a dead toddler on the shores of a Turkish beach reverberated this week, Conservative leader Stephen Harper defended Canada’s record when it comes to aiding displaced persons.

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What do students really ask in sex ed? (And how do you answer them?)

September 3, 2015December 12, 2015amp Leave a comment

Sept. 3, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Sex, sexuality and sexual health can be fraught topics to broach in the classroom. But much trickier than any curricular updates is answering students’ questions — the anonymous, curious, often awkwardly written queries young people submit over the course of their sex ed lessons.

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Mentally ill, found guilty of terrorism: What happens to Chiheb Esseghaier?

September 1, 2015October 25, 2015amp Leave a comment

Sept. 1, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

A courtroom debate on the fate of a mentally ill man found guilty of terrorism was interrupted by saliva projectiles Wednesday.

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‘C-51 is a tragedy’: New book slams Canada’s anti-terror law

September 1, 2015October 25, 2015amp Leave a comment

Sept. 1, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Canada is “getting it wrong” in its war on terror, enacting laws that are both unconstitutional and fail to keep the country safer, an upcoming book charges.

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Pipeline politics: Oilsands and the 2015 election

August 29, 2015October 25, 2015amp Leave a comment

Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News – August 29, 2015

When the federal election kicks into high gear during the final stretch of a marathon campaign, a high-profile case that could change Canadian resource development will play out in a B.C. courtroom.

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Prescription to die for: Study finds ‘exceptional’ death rate among opioid patients

August 20, 2015August 28, 2015amp Leave a comment

August 20, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

Patients put on high doses of opioids are 24 times more likely to die because of them than people prescribed lower doses of the drugs, a new study finds.

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Red Cross signs deal to visit detainees in Ontario jails months after Global News investigation

August 20, 2015August 28, 2015amp Leave a comment

August 20, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny and Patrick Cain, Global News

Canada’s Red Cross has formally signed a letter of understanding allowing its inspectors to visit immigration detainees being held in Ontario jails, after years of fruitlessly demanding access.

 

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So, you want to file an access-to-information request

August 15, 2015April 10, 2016amp Leave a comment

Wrote about Canada’s Sisyphean ATI regime for Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.

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‘I don’t want to live this life forever’: Your stories on opioid addiction

August 12, 2015August 28, 2015amp Leave a comment

August 12, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

It’s easier for Sue to buy Oxy on the street than to get treatment for the addiction that took over her life.

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Reality Check: What actually works in the war on drugs?

August 11, 2015August 28, 2015amp Leave a comment

August 11, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News

The Prince Albert methadone clinic where Lanre Egbeyemi worked has about 400 patients. He figures there are 10 times that many people who need treatment for crippling addictions to a host of potent opioids — and aren’t getting it.

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