July 30, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Tim Iqbal’s first job in Canada was shovelling snow.
Ontario’s now the worst place for educated immigrants looking for work
Should we be hiring more compassionate cops?
July 29, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny and James Armstrong, Global News
The head of Toronto’s civilian police watchdog thinks aspiring officers should have to volunteer with people who have mental illness.
Health Canada looking for ways to make opioid prescribing safer
July 25, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Health Canada wants ideas on how to stop risky prescribing of the drugs fuelling Canada’s fastest-growing addictions.
Mentally ill inmate isn’t a dangerous offender, judge finds
July 25, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Marlene Carter, a 43-year-old inmate with severe mental illness who’s spent much of her five years behind bars tied to a plank, bed or chair in a solitary cell, is not a dangerous offender, a judge has ruled.
Some mentally ill inmates face solitary confinement by another name
July 24, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Special designations for federal inmates with the most complex psychiatric needs often result in their being kept in what is, effectively, solitary confinement – just don’t call it that.
Tied down in solitary for years, is sick inmate a dangerous offender?
If crime is down, why are provincial jails crammed with legally innocent people?
July 23, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Crime is down – violent crime, especially. But provincial jails are overflowing with a growing number of people who are legally innocent and awaiting trial, a Canadian Civil Liberties Association report finds.
Should we stop freaking out about Ontario manufacturing jobs?
July 16, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Perhaps you’ve heard: The number of Ontarians working in manufacturing jobs reached a 38-year low in Statistics Canada’s most recent jobs numbers.
Hooked on oxy: How pilfered Canadian pills are fuelling a U.S. health crisis
July 14, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Nineteen thousand, two hundred and thirty-seven tablets.
That’s how many pills an Ontario pharmacy employee was able to steal before being caught in February – by far the biggest oxycodone theft reported from a Canadian hospital or pharmacy since January 2012, according to numbers Health Canada gave Global News.
Ontario has no plans to crack down on skyrocketing painkillers
July 14, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Canada’s next painkiller crackdown won’t come from Ontario.
Its removal of OxyNEO from the Ontario Drug Benefit successfully sidelined Purdue’s replacement for what was once the most notoriously addictive opioid – OxyContin.
And the province now collects data on all prescriptions filled, not just those the government pays for.
But tackling Canada’s fastest-growing addiction is turning into a game of whack-a-mole: Prescriptions for just about every other potent painkiller are up – way up – in the past two years.
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