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
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‘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.
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.
Alberta men have higher unemployment than the Canadian average for the first time since 1989
January 8, 2016 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Things are ugly in the oilpatch. But they’re especially ugly if you’re a man. Most of all, if you’re a man who hasn’t graduated high school.
‘We sincerely apologize’: Nexen’s ‘failsafe’ system didn’t detect massive northern Alberta pipeline spill
July 17, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny and Melissa Ramsay, Global News
Oil and gas company Nexen’s automatic detection system didn’t detect a ruptured pipeline that resulted in a massive bitumen emulsion spill this week, senior vice-president Ron Bailey told reporters in Calgary Friday morning.
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.
Alberta oil spill: Examining CNRL’s safety record
December 2, 2014 – Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young, Global News
The 60,000 litres of crude spilled into northern Alberta muskeg last week is only the latest of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.’s operational accidents.
Five months (and counting) into CNRL spill, questions of why more wasn’t done after 2009 leak
Sept. 27, 2013 – Global News
A series of spills in northern Alberta is still oozing bitumen more than five months after the leaks began. And with no end in sight, Alberta’s Environment Ministry has taken what it says is an unprecedented step, asking Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. to partially drain an oil-soaked water body before it freezes this winter and traps a bitumen gash underneath it.
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