Julie Ireton

While it’s not yet legal to sell the chocolate products produced at Canopy Growth’s Tweed facility, research and development of the THC infused chocolate is well underway at 1 Hershey Drive thanks to a partnership with Hummingbird Chocolate Maker.

The long wait-list for a bed at an Ontario nursing home could grow even longer, thanks in part to new provincial restrictions on older facilities with four-bed rooms.

Canada has the worst record for COVID-19 deaths in long-term care homes compared with other wealthy countries, according to a new report released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

It wasn’t an injury that saw Mary Jane Richards’ track career come to an abrupt halt in the 1990s, but rather what she says were years of grooming by her running coach — which included inappropriate massages, explicit emails and sexual intercourse.

Athletes and experts are renewing calls for more oversight in sport following a string of historical abuse allegations that have surfaced in recent months against coaches across disciplines and jurisdictions.

Two women and their families are suing a former teacher convicted of sex crimes in Perth, Ont., and the school board he worked for in separate lawsuits each claiming millions in damages.

Health and safety documents obtained by CBC News illustrate key issues at several nursing homes in eastern Ontario as the pandemic began in early 2020, including complaints about a lack of PPE, poor communication with staff, fear of reprisals for speaking out about issues and concerns about staffing…

Researchers in Ottawa have uncovered new evidence to suggest some archival records on residential schools from Canada are now only accessible in Rome, prompting renewed calls for the Vatican to release historic documents that could help piece together what happened to the Indigenous children who wer…

A CBC investigation into the many and varied corporate holdings of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate shows hundreds of millions of dollars, a commitment to take care of a dwindling number of aging priests, and evidence that new corporate entities were created as lawsuits and liabilities loomed.

A CBC investigation conducted over 16 months found one in four cases of intimate partner homicide was in a rural, remote or northern part of Canada.

The head of the organization representing Canada’s personal protective equipment manufacturers says the industry feels betrayed by the Canadian government because it’s not buying from small, home-grown companies.

Randy Hillier tweeted this weekend that people should flood Ottawa police phone lines and express their discontent with how the force was clearing protesters from the downtown. That led many to call for his arrest, but the Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston MPP says he’s not worried.

The federal 2022 budget includes plans to launch a ‘strategic policy review’ of how the public service does its work in a post-COVID era, an initiative that could have ramifications for federal workers in the national capital region.

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Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservatives increased its majority government, but lost a seat — in Ottawa-West Nepean — to the NDP.

CBC has confirmed at least nine convicted sex offenders — men who abused children in residential schools, northern Indigenous communities, and various parishes across the country — have taken refuge at the Springhurst residence in Ottawa, which is owned by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

A group of childhood sexual abuse survivors, along with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, is calling for government action as data shows an increasing number of sexual abuse reports from inside this country’s schools.

Sexual abuse survivors across Canada describe feeling revictimized through the civil process. Their stories provide a rare glimpse into what can happen during civil litigation involving large institutions such as school boards, hospitals, scouting and religious organizations.

Police suspensions across Ontario have cost taxpayers approximately $134 million over the past 11 years, according to an exclusive database compiled by CBC News that surveyed reports about hundreds of officers who were sent home with pay after being accused of misconduct or breaking the law.

CBC’s research found more than one-third of the allegations leading to officer suspensions since 2013 involved gender-based violence including sexual assault, domestic violence or sexual harassment. Women officers who are also survivors of abuse say the policing system is unsupportive and rife with professional conflict.