July 13, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
If you hand parents a cheque, will they work more?
Who benefits from Canada’s Universal Child Care Benefit?
Rough justice: Lockdowns skyrocket at short-staffed Ontario jails
July 8, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Staffing-related lockdowns in crowded jails across Ontario have more than tripled since 2009, numbers obtained by Global News show.
Refugee health cuts: Even those who qualify get turned away
July 8, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The refugee health care system has become so confusing that doctors are turning patients away even if they’re covered, evidence shows.
‘Psychiatrists in blue’: How do you train cops to be better social workers?
July 7, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
It was just another 911 call to an apartment building where a tenant was causing a ruckus.
Taser Files: What happens to you when you’re Tasered?
July 7, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The problem with assessing the effects of Tasers on the human body is that the kind of human bodies most likely to be tasered — people who are sick, stressed, drunk, high on drugs, experiencing a psychotic episode or emotional crisis or strenuous exertion — are both most likely to experience exacerbated health complications and impossible to ethically test for them.
Taser Files: What we found in 594 pages of police incident reports
July 7, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The call came in just before 8 p.m. – a woman was threatening to kill herself. Police found her with a butcher knife pressed up against her neck.
‘Without the Taser he’d be alive today’: How should we police Taser use?
July 7, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Strictly speaking, the Taser that shot seven seconds of paralyzing electricity into Aron Firman’s chest, darts piercing bare skin for 14 minutes before they were removed, before CPR was performed, was only a “contributing factor” in the 27-year-old’s death.
‘Policing is a helping profession’: Outgoing Toronto Police Services Board Chair Alok Mukherjee on how to build a better cop
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News, June 18, 2015
A lot has changed in the decade Alok Mukherjee has chaired Toronto’s Police Services Board.
And a lot hasn’t changed.
Death Behind Bars wins investigative journalism award
Our investigation into Canada’s deadliest, most violent prisons – also the ones housing its sickest, most vulnerable inmates – won a Dan McArthur Award for Investigative Journalism from RTDNA Canada.
How do you fix Canada’s labour instability trap?
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News, June 15, 2015
Across parties and levels of government, politicians are scrambling to reshape 20th-century labour policies to fit a 21st-century workforce.
a business of misfits 