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.
How do you fix Canada’s labour instability trap?
Medicating meat: What’s Canada’s plan for animal antibiotics?
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News, June 8, 2015
The barn door opens and a feathered wave, thousands of cheeping day-old chicks, undulates away from the entrance. Outside’s a sluicing Grey County downpour but inside it’s humid, dim and a climate-controlled 30-odd degrees.
Food Inspection Agency says better transparency’s coming – eventually
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News, June 1, 2015
Canada’s Food Inspection Agency says it’s working to make more of its inspection records public — but it doesn’t know when that will happen or how much information it will keep secret to respect corporate privacy.
Tainted lunch: Navigating gaps in Canada’s food safety system
Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News – June 1, 2015
Contaminated pork left Andrea Rohachuk curled for hours in agony next to an Emergency Room toilet.
Canada’s organ donor rate lags behind other countries’. How do you fix it?
Anna Mehler Paperny – Global News, April 24, 2015
In 2013, 246 Canadians died waiting for organ transplants.
They needn’t have.
Budget 2015: Who benefits from doubling TFSA limits?
April 8, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The federal Conservatives have indicated they’re going to double the amount Canadians can invest in tax-free savings accounts each year, from $5,500 to $11,000.
“Canadians know that we stick to our commitments,” Finance Minister Joe Oliversaid in a letter to Tory MPs Tuesday, apparently referring to a pledge in the last election to double the limit once the budget was balanced. “I will present a balanced budget that will make life more affordable for Canadians.”
Duty to document: What you need to know about reforming access-to-information in Canada
March 31, 2015 – Amy Minsky and Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Many of Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault’s recommendations to fix Canada’s strained and aging access-to-information system will be familiar to Prime Minister Stephen Harper: They were part of his platform nine years ago.
Will Canada’s Syria mission bolster Assad’s regime?
March 27, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
The federal Conservatives have extended Canada’s anti-ISIS campaign to include airstrikes on Syria. This is necessary, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says, because the group “must cease to have any safe haven in Syria.”
But in doing so, Canada may be helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has, evidence indicates, cluster-bombed and gassed his own civilians, contributed to a massive humanitarian crisis and killed hundreds of thousands of people – far more than the so-called Islamic StateCanada has vowed to defeat.
Going hungry: Why millions of Canadians can’t afford healthy food
March 25, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Pay the rent, or put food on the table?
It sounds like an unthinkable choice. It’s one Priscilla, a Winnipeg mom with two young kids, both under 8, faces daily.
It’s one the growing number of people Laurie O’Connor sees streaming through Saskatoon’s Food Bank keep asking themselves.
It’s one faced by more than a million Canadian households, a Statistics Canada report revealed Wednesday.
‘I needed to know it wasn’t my fault’: When rapists are those you trust most
March 9, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
We’ve been inundated with the stories — personal, frank, harrowing — of sexual assault survivors since publishing this story about how difficult it is to get justice for rape.
Among the people we spoke with were survivors who wanted to go public with the abuse they suffered and the way they feel Canada’s court system failed them, and wanted to put their names to their stories.
But because of rules imposed by the same court system that in so many cases fails the victims of sexual violence, we believe their names remain under publication ban – ostensibly for their own protection – long after cases are closed or alleged abusers no longer living.
We wish we could honour the wishes of these individuals to be named. Out of an abundance of caution, we have not.
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