By Anna Mehler Paperny – Investigative Journalism Bureau
Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare’s two cottage-country hospitals are not built for mental health care.
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Behind the reporting: How, and why, we dug into medical coercion
By Anna Mehler Paperny – Investigative Journalism Bureau
We’ve all gotten medical advice we didn’t follow.
Get more exercise? With what free time?
Eat less meat? No, thank you.
Eight hours of sleep a night? Lol, I’ll get right on that.
But sometimes you’re deemed too sick – too crazy – to ignore medical advice.
Tens of thousands of times a year, Ontarians are deemed too crazy to decide to leave hospital, too crazy to consent – or withhold consent – to treatment.
And thousands of times a year, they challenge those medical designations at the arms-length body that adjudicates such challenges – the Consent and Capacity Board.
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.
