Tag: Star investigation
Tainted water revelations spark calls for action
When Oakville Mayor Rob Burton was sending his three children to public schools in Halton Region, health risks from lead in their drinking...
This Canadian vanished from a Mexican resort town. Startling video shows...
It’s just after midnight on Oct. 28, 2018. Malcom Madsen, a 68-year-old snowbird from Sutton, Ontario, and his 43-year-old Mexican girlfriend, Marcela Acosta...
Oneida residents say the tap water is making them sick. But...
ONEIDA NATION OF THE THAMES—Jennifer George’s home sits on a gravel road that separates this Indigenous community near London, Ont., from the neighbouring...
They complained for years about their water — and were told...
TOTTENHAM, ONT.—The anger inside the jam-packed community centre was beginning to spill over. Hundreds of residents from this community an hour northwest of...
‘We can do better.’ Province concedes it must be more transparent...
Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath slammed Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government for failing to take action after a massive investigation revealed more...
Canada-wide investigation reveals dangerous levels of lead in tap water
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians are consuming tap water laced with high levels of lead leaching from aging and deteriorating infrastructure. A year-long...
A Buffalo website is publishing ‘false’ viral stories about Justin Trudeau...
Despite Ottawa’s widespread efforts to prevent online disinformation from distorting the election campaign, a website based in Buffalo, N.Y., has been freely posting...
This Queen’s student was sent home from the ER twice because...
The worst week of Paul Battista and Cheryl Smith’s lives began with a middle-of-the-night text from their daughter.Leah, 20, was in her third...
A gallery owner told me the Yorkville Swindler was scheming again....
The man known as the “Yorkville Swindler,” who months ago was fresh from prison and living in a homeless shelter, answers the door...
Expert who gave more than 100 assessments in Ontario child protection...
An Ontario psychologist who testified she has conducted more than 100 assessments as an expert in child protection cases — including some in...