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Latest investigation from Morgan Sevareid-Bocknek and me!
These ‘lunch-break facelifts' are popular at GTA medical spas. But patients are being misled about the procedure — and potentially put at risk
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I wrote about how the lack of internet access in Canadian prisons is making it nearly impossible for prisoners to pursue postsecondary education.

“They’re supposed to be rehabilitating people,' one inmate's mother told me. “But they’re stifling them.”
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Exclusive from Rachel Mendleson: The Doug Ford government has settled 67 construction company claims related to pandemic-impacted projects (but won't say how much taxpayer money it has doled out) and faces further claims in court thestar.com/news/investiga… via @torontostar

How some of Ontario’s most recognizable companies have become embroiled in alleged labour exploitation schemes — banger investigation by investigation by Sara Mojtehedzadeh and Rachel Mendleson thestar.com/news/investiga…

Nobody does Toronto investigation journalism, especially on workers' rights, like the Toronto Star and skilled diggers Sara Mojtehedzadeh and Rachel Mendleson. Please read and, if you aren't a subscriber, consider it because that is what is keeping us afloat

A Toronto landlady was charged w/ running an “industrial” labour exploitation scheme — one that supplied major employers across the GTA.

Inside a rare criminal conviction — and where it ultimately left vulnerable workers.

From Rachel Mendleson and I:

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In 2018 our Toronto Star investigation into research by the disgraced Motherisk founder prompted The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) to launch a wholesale review of his vast publication record.

4+ yrs later the hospital's review is over and the results are 'inconclusive.'

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Premier Doug Ford repeatedly says the AG had 14 recommendations over the Greenbelt land swap — which is not true.

There were 15 recommendations, including considering reversing the decision.

#Onpoli

This story is a powerful case study for all that's wrong with freedom of information. Dr. Brooks Fallis turned to FOI for answers about why he lost his position as medical director at a GTA hospital. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Olivia Chow says as Toronto mayor she would bring accountability back to the public service, repairing the “broken conduit” between city staff and Torontonians on CafeTO and more thestar.com/news/gta/2023/… via @torontostar

On Tuesday’s Toronto Star A1: Ontario’s top court reverses a decades-old conviction: Rachel Mendleson reports, 📸 Richard Lautens. Plus: Tonda MacCharles on Russell Brown’s retirement. betsy powell on concerns over a psychiatrist’s expert evidence. And Isabel Teotonio on cuts to school swim classes.

Noting that before Rob Ford, city council didn't set the tax rate before deciding budget spending. He made the change to limit council's ability to add spending and Tory chose to continue having council vote first on the tax rate, then on everything else.

Grateful to guyfelicella & the folks at Insiteful Vancouver for showing me and photographer Trevor Hagan around Insite & Vancouver's Downtown Eastside last month.
Check out our story from Saturday's Winnipeg Free Press:
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Your Toronto Star city hall bureau has been working hard to provide the best, most comprehensive and thoughtful mayoral byelection coverage. A thread of the many stories published just in the past few days:

Ontario’s Divisional Court has resoundingly rejected a plea to intervene in a bitter dispute over Chief Forensic Pathologist Dr. Michael Pollanen’s conduct in a controversial case involving the death of an infant. trib.al/dlA0Nmb

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