Investigative Journalism Bureau

Canada's leading non-profit, investigative newsroom. Based at the University of Toronto's (@UofT) Dalla Lana School of Public Health (@uoft_dlsph).

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Next in our #FertilityInc series: What is the price of hope? ‘Outrageous’ egg-freezing costs push some women to drastic measures for a chance at future pregnancy.

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https://t.co/nyGqAuBEnx

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Next in our #FertilityInc series: Thousands of Canadians are freezing their eggs, but how much do patients really know about their chances of turning those eggs into a baby? Fertility clinics don't have to say.

Read the full story: https://t.co/4ibdxkFtXx

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Egg freezing is a booming business in Canada. Here’s how women are oversold on the likelihood of success

Read the first story in our five-part series Fertility Inc., which explores the Wild West of the egg-freezing industry.

https://t.co/QGDnPYKAJS

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Appealing involuntary care in Ontario likely to fail, IJB analysis shows - https://t.co/Ndbp0RjQf0

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Requests by trans inmates to transfer to women’s prisons are increasingly being denied, an IJB investigation has found.

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An IJB investigation has detailed questionable marketing claims behind the massive growth in egg freezing among Canadians women.

#eggfreezing #fertility #womenshealth #news

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Ontarians contesting involuntary care face low likelihood of success. IJB analysis of over 100,000 applications before Ontario's Consent and Capacity Board shows nearly 9 in 10 challenges of involuntary care are overturned.

https://t.co/rn9ePJHukA

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In Ontario, patients contesting forced treatment lose their appeals in the vast majority of cases. Critics and advocates say the system is biased toward doctors.
Read more: https://t.co/1JzH7FRJJM

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Transfer requests by incarcerated transgender women are increasingly rejected, IJB finds - https://t.co/eaSXRt5kcK

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Prison transfer requests by transgender women are being increasingly denied, the IJB has found.

Nearly a decade after a policy change prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity, the placement of gender-diverse offenders remains a live issue.

https://t.co/9jmWXZecRM

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Ontario nurses challenge Ontario labour law to address lack of minimum patient ratios - https://t.co/tHGwWHeoJN

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Anna Mehler Paperny reflects on what it takes to expose a government shift on First Nations drinking water.

https://t.co/frBgM4WBsx

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Ontario nurses are challenging a law they say lets hospitals dodge proper negotiation. It follows a decision that denied to implement mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios. The IJB previously exposed how nurses are being overburdened by unregulated ratios.
https://t.co/DjCDkrvVwt

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Liberals are playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water - https://t.co/0PqcCTWwHF

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Thousands of Canadians have had their children taken at birth by child services, interrupting motherly care and a crucial bonding period.

Now, women affected by the practice of birth alerts are fighting for compensation through class action lawsuits.

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Court documents and correspondence reveal the Canadian government's shift in fighting First Nations on drinking water.

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Court documents and correspondence reveal the Canadian government is aggressively fighting First Nations trying to get clean drinking water.

https://t.co/T5NSKIZNq4

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Ontario has become the first province in Canada to prohibit invasive medical research on dogs and cats.

Meanwhile, at York University protesters gather to demand the release of nine macaques following an IJB investigation into York's primate lab.
https://t.co/M7Av8vsekv

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'Conduct of the worst sort': Canadian lawyers and child sexual misconduct - https://t.co/62Bc963uss

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At least two Canadian lawyers were charged with possessing child sexual abuse material and other child exploitation offences last week. We looked at 39 cases where lawyers and judges were convicted or disciplined for child sexual offences or misconduct. Many continue to practice