May 23, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Ameeta Singh’s patients should know better.
‘The war on STIs has failed’: Reinventing the way we tackle sexual disease
Crisis pregnancy centres mislead women, report says
May 20, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Jane was pregnant and she didn’t want to be and she didn’t know where to go.
Abortion investigation nominated for RTDNA award
‘Jails are not hospitals’: Stop incarcerating sick detainees, health workers say
May 17, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Despite calls from “outraged” Ontario health workers, the province won’t stop putting immigration detainees in provincial jails any time soon.
Canada is getting a trans rights bill
May 13, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould is tabling a bill enshrining trans and gender-identity rights in Canadian law next week.
‘They like having people in debt’: Your payday loan stories
May 13, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Nick has loaned people money with the same bills those customers used to repay their delinquent loans moments earlier.
Alberta slashes payday loan fees to lowest in Canada
May 12, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Alberta is reducing the maximum amount payday lenders can charge to the lowest in Canada and requiring these companies to give borrowers more time to pay back the money they owe.
‘We are loan sharks’: Why this woman’s leaving the payday loan business
May 11, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
You don’t ask people how much they want to borrow: You tell them how much you’re lending them.
Income immobility: Fewer Canadians are moving up – or down – the income ladder
May 8, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Canadians have less income mobility than they’ve had in decades as fewer people move up the income ladder — and even fewer move down.
Fort McMurray exodus: 1 mom, 2 daughters, 4 horses, 3 dogs and a cat make wildfire escape
May 5, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
If Cora Dion only needed transport for two horses as she fled Fort McMurray with her twin 15-year-old daughters, three dogs and a cat, the family’s escape from Alberta’s worst wildfire in years would have been fairly straightforward.
But she had four horses. And a trailer for two.
a business of misfits 