By Anna Mehler Paperny and Dori Seeman – Investigative Journalism Bureau
Heather Lafleur sought to convince a trio of strangers she shouldn’t be injected with powerful drugs against her will.
Canada
Behind the Reporting: Exposing a government shift on First Nations water
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Investigative Journalism Bureau
You turn the tap. You drink. You cook. You wash.
Drinkable, usable tap water has become so elemental in the lives of people in wealthy countries that its use is reflexive. But thousands of people in Canada lack it. They live in First Nations communities, many of which have had to go without drinkable water for decades.
Canada’s government is playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Investigative Journalism Bureau
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is playing legal hardball with First Nations fighting for clean drinking water — and First Nations are fighting back.
Canada is terrible at tracking maternal deaths
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Emma Jarratt – Investigative Journalism Bureau
The first blood clot was about the size of an avocado.
What’s at stake in Canadian transparency tussles
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Investigative Journalism Bureau
One of the best ways to lose friends at a party is to bring up freedom-of-information legislation.
Canada working with US to deal with countries slow to accept deportees, document shows
Canada struggled to advise travelers on Trump trans policies, documents show
Some migrants in Canada lose work status while applications languish
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Reuters
Migrants living in Canada are facing longer waits to renew paperwork that would allow them to keep working legally, as growing backlogs and changing rules stymie efforts to maintain legal status, according to interviews and data obtained by Reuters.
Losing status means people who have paid taxes cannot work or access medical care and other services in a country that has long prided itself for its universal health care.
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