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#StarInvestigation: A Toronto private school was sued over a student’s alleged sexual assault. The school’s name was kept secret until now.
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Upper Canada College’s identity had been concealed by a sweeping publication ban — a move that legal experts called a troubling and unprecedented overreach.
The ban has now been overturned, and the all-boys school denies any wrongdoing.
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The ban has now been overturned, and the all-boys school denies any wrongdoing.
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In the lawsuit, a student alleges he was violently sexually assaulted by classmates on a camp trip.
All defendants — the private school, four faculty members and two students — have denied the allegations. The case is ongoing.
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All defendants — the private school, four faculty members and two students — have denied the allegations. The case is ongoing.
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#StarInvestigation: Spending on temporary agency nurses has soared by millions of dollars at some of Ontario’s largest hospitals grappling with severe staffing shortages.
One paid over 550% more in its last fiscal year compared to pre-pandemic years.
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One paid over 550% more in its last fiscal year compared to pre-pandemic years.
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Critics say hospitals turning to nursing agencies is a dangerous symptom of deeper dysfunction in hospitals, where exhausted nurses are leaving permanent jobs for flexible gigs at privately owned temp agencies that pay more. thestar.com/news/investiga…
“Agency nursing is a form of privatization,” said Doris Grinspun, CEO of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. “And really, the ones who are making the mega money are the agencies.”
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#StarInvestigation: OLG quietly transformed dozens of bingo halls into de facto casinos, despite slot machine ban. thestar.com/business/2022/…
Money-losing modernization program added hundreds of gaming terminals that look and operate much like slot machines to bingo halls, despite ban on slots.
OLG says the halls support communities and follow the law. thestar.com/business/2022/…
OLG says the halls support communities and follow the law. thestar.com/business/2022/…
At one bingo hall in Toronto, some machines had single play wagers going as high as $12 which stunned slot machine expert Kevin Harrigan.
He said if a player went for 10 spins a minute, they could lose an average of $12 per minute. thestar.com/business/2022/…
He said if a player went for 10 spins a minute, they could lose an average of $12 per minute. thestar.com/business/2022/…
Using the state-of-the-art tracker he’d installed, this Toronto car owner precisely located his Ford F-150 Raptor pickup while on the phone to Toronto police.
The police did not show up.
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The police did not show up.
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Adam Westland’s, 2019 Ford F-150 Raptor pickup was his personal vehicle.
When his wife saw their parking spot empty in December, he called police.
A dispatcher came on the line, asking him the nature of his emergency.
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When his wife saw their parking spot empty in December, he called police.
A dispatcher came on the line, asking him the nature of his emergency.
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While he answered questions, Adam checked the app linked to the tracker on the Raptor. It told him someone started his truck at 1:58 a.m.
“A detective will be assigned,” the dispatcher said. No estimation was given on timing. For Adam, this made no sense
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“A detective will be assigned,” the dispatcher said. No estimation was given on timing. For Adam, this made no sense
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#StarInvestigation: The consultant at the centre of a controversy over a potential conflict of interest at Metrolinx has given up his title at the provincial transit agency. torstar.co/nEwY50HGpz0
The move by Brian Guest comes after a Star investigation revealed his consulting firm received valuable government contracts from the agency while he was serving as an executive there. thestar.com/news/investiga…
Metrolinx confirmed Thursday night that Guest “has relinquished his title at Metrolinx.”
The organization said Guest had informed Metrolinx’s chief legal officer of the decision earlier this week.
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The organization said Guest had informed Metrolinx’s chief legal officer of the decision earlier this week.
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#StarInvestigation: Detectives have probed Barry and Honey Sherman’s estate plans for murder clues — why, they won’t say torstar.co/6V2n50HErQk
The Toronto Star has won court-approved access to police investigative documents in the now four-year-old Barry and Honey Sherman murder case.
The Star reveals that homicide detectives have dug into Barry’s estate planning .
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The Star reveals that homicide detectives have dug into Barry’s estate planning .
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What detectives did not find in the Sherman office or their home was the last will and testament for either of the Shermans.
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#StarInvestigation: Ontario government will investigate controversial contracts Metrolinx gave to a consulting firm whose director was a VP at the transit agency thestar.com/news/gta/2022/…
Meanwhile, the NDP says the public deserves answers about the “bizarre and disturbing arrangement” between Metrolinx and consultant Brian Guest.
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A Star investigation revealed details of two contracts consultant firm Boxfish Infrastructure Group won from Metrolinx in 2019 and 2020. At the time, Brian Guest, a director at Boxfish, was assigned to vice president roles at the publicly funded agency.
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#StarInvestigation: Metrolinx appointed a private consultant to an executive role at the transit agency and awarded his firm valuable government work while he was in the job, the Star has learned. torstar.co/RngU50HBgXA
Brian Guest, a director at the Boxfish Infrastructure Group consulting firm, held vice-president titles at Metrolinx between March 2018 - May 2020
Over that period, the public transit agency issued two contracts to Boxfish, one of which was sole-sourced
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Over that period, the public transit agency issued two contracts to Boxfish, one of which was sole-sourced
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Metrolinx refused to disclose how much taxpayer money it agreed to give to Boxfish through those deals.
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#StarInvestigation: Barry Sherman owed $1 billion and was not going to pay, police documents reveal.
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The Toronto Star has won court-approved access to police investigative documents in the 4-year-old Barry and Honey Sherman murder case. The Star reveals what the children, friends and business associates of the Shermans told detectives in their interviews.
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There’s an old saying in homicide investigations, “there are no secrets in a murder case,” something made abundantly clear in police documents newly unsealed by the court.
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Some SUV models of Toyota’s luxury brand, Lexus, have a staggering one-in-five chance of being stolen, according to insurance claim data released to the Toronto Star.
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“Lexus and a few of the other brands are in high demand overseas and they are pretty easy to take,” says one veteran police detective. thestar.com/news/investiga…
If it happens to you, your car will likely be opened and started using cheap technology to reprogram the car to accept a new smart key.
It will leave your driveway or a parking lot between the hours of 1 and 5 a.m., and be driven somewhere to cool off. thestar.com/news/investiga…
It will leave your driveway or a parking lot between the hours of 1 and 5 a.m., and be driven somewhere to cool off. thestar.com/news/investiga…
#StarInvestigation: In their rush to resurrect the Bradford Bypass, Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are forging ahead without divulging some basic information about the highway. torstar.co/QCeQ50GBWfy
A controversial planned highway would cut through homes tucked away in a dense forest north of Toronto — instead of slicing across the edge of a golf course. thestar.com/news/investiga…
It did not mention that the golf course being spared is co-owned by the father of Progressive Conservative MPP Stan Cho, who in June became the associate minister of transportation. thestar.com/news/investiga…
#StarInvestigation: Ford government pledged $2.5 million to Facedrive for bracelets to fight COVID — but employees say the tech "never worked like it should." thestar.com/business/2021/…
It was a small start-up with just seven-figure revenue that was suddenly worth an eye-popping $5.7 billion.
“To put it nicely, it was definitely oversold,” said one former TraceSCAN salesperson. He paused and laughed. “Even by me, to be honest.” thestar.com/business/2021/…
“To put it nicely, it was definitely oversold,” said one former TraceSCAN salesperson. He paused and laughed. “Even by me, to be honest.” thestar.com/business/2021/…
In the eight months since that grant, Facedrive has undergone something of a public collapse.
Its stock, traded on the TSX venture exchange, has fallen more than 98 per cent, from a high of $60/share in February to less than a dollar in late October. thestar.com/business/2021/…
Its stock, traded on the TSX venture exchange, has fallen more than 98 per cent, from a high of $60/share in February to less than a dollar in late October. thestar.com/business/2021/…
“Getting thinner and thinner before our eyes."
Toronto General Hospital's eating disorder program was once the largest in Canada. Now, Families of patients who died say the clinic is failing those who need it most.
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Toronto General Hospital's eating disorder program was once the largest in Canada. Now, Families of patients who died say the clinic is failing those who need it most.
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April 2020, 34-year-old Cassandra Szorady was discharged from the program after six-weeks of intensive treatment, entering a world much different than when she was admitted. She struggled to keep the pounds she put on in treatment. Her health deteriorated.
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In the next months, she cycled in and out of hospital for heart palpitations as the number on the scale sank: 126 pounds, 90, 86. Her family friend called TGH, but she was told she would have to wait her turn again. She died a few months later. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
Tens of thousands of Canadians have visited anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine online communities rife with conspiracy theories.
Since 2021, the #nomorelockdowns hashtag has been used on Canada-related tweets thousands of times, more than any other country.
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Since 2021, the #nomorelockdowns hashtag has been used on Canada-related tweets thousands of times, more than any other country.
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The Star has tracked the spread of these online communities that many fear could catch the cluster of unsure Canadians - sometimes called the vaccine-hesitant - who are caught in a tug of war between public health authorities and anti-vaxxers. thestar.com/news/investiga…
What helped fuel the spread? Hashtags. Like the COVID itself, #nomorelockdowns has spread across borders and oceans.
Our analysis found the hashtag intensified once it became a fixture of anti-lockdown social media rhetoric in Ontario. thestar.com/news/investiga…
Our analysis found the hashtag intensified once it became a fixture of anti-lockdown social media rhetoric in Ontario. thestar.com/news/investiga…
#StarInvestigation: Over the last 10 years, Ideal Developments has sold more than 600 pre-construction condo units or townhouses across the GTA that have ended up cancelled.
That's more than the company has built.
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That's more than the company has built.
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Now, as dozens of buyers are taking Ideal to court, the developer — who has high-end cars and lives in a Markham mansion — is promoting three new pre-construction developments. thestar.com/news/investiga…
“How could this be allowed?” said Anna Pires, who in September 2016 bought a pre-construction stacked townhouse in Ideal’s Modern Manors development in Richmond Hill.
“I just want to warn people how broken the system is,” she said. thestar.com/news/investiga…
“I just want to warn people how broken the system is,” she said. thestar.com/news/investiga…
#StarInvestigation: The invisible threat inside your home: Dangerous levels of radon gas are being found in more houses across Canada than ever before. thestar.com/news/investiga…
The prevalence of deadly radon gas is rising across Canada as lax building codes allow dangerously high levels to be trapped inside newly built homes. thestar.com/news/investiga…
Radon is an invisible, odourless radioactive gas that is naturally emitted from uranium in soil and enters homes, where it can concentrate. When radon is inhaled, it can damage DNA in the lungs and cause cancer. thestar.com/news/investiga…
Years after the Ontario vowed to get to the bottom of two alleged mercury dumps upstream from Grassy Narrows First Nation, neither has been excavated. In the meantime, the province allowed a surge in gold mining claims in the territory
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A Torstar analysis has found a dramatic increase in active mining claims in Grassy Narrows, an Indigenous territory located about 100 kilometres north of Kenora in the northwest corner of Ontario.
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As gold prices continue to soar, prospectors have staked nearly 4,000 active mining claims across Grassy Narrows traditional territory covering roughly 122,000 hectares — about double the size of the City of Toronto.
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#StarInvestigation: Many lined up at the ‘Bank of Barry’ Sherman: Inside the $10 billion succession battle.
Part two of a three-part series from @_kevindonovan: thestar.com/news/investiga…
Part two of a three-part series from @_kevindonovan: thestar.com/news/investiga…
Alex Glasenberg was and still is the caretaker of what the Sherman family has long referred to as the “Bank of Barry.”
“I mean no disrespect of course, but Alex Glasenberg knows where all the financial bodies are buried,” said one Sherman insider.
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“I mean no disrespect of course, but Alex Glasenberg knows where all the financial bodies are buried,” said one Sherman insider.
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Glasenberg is the president of Sherfam, the Sherman family holding company, headquartered in a squat, two-storey building north of Toronto. He was among the first to learn the Shermans had been found dead just before noon on Dec. 15, 2017. thestar.com/news/investiga…
#StarExclusive from @thecribby: Botched cancer screening and treatment delayed — New allegations claim Health Sciences North, a hospital in Sudbury, Ont., ran a substandard breast screening program and failed to fix known problems thestar.com/news/investiga…
It started when Shannon Hayes felt a lump in her breast three years ago. She was examined and reassured by radiologists at Health Sciences North (HSN) that her lump was benign.
They were wrong, Hayes alleges. /2 thestar.com/news/investiga…
They were wrong, Hayes alleges. /2 thestar.com/news/investiga…
After assuming she needed no further treatment, a 2019 check up found Hayes had grade three breast cancer.
“I was in shock,” she said. “The cancer had been in me for a year and had grown. I was so terrified and still am for what it means for my future” /3 thestar.com/news/investiga…
“I was in shock,” she said. “The cancer had been in me for a year and had grown. I was so terrified and still am for what it means for my future” /3 thestar.com/news/investiga…
Even ‘when things were good’ families and Ministry of Long-Term Care inspectors were raising red flags. Inside four years’ worth of violations at Tendercare long-term-care home
#StarInvestigation by @KenyonWallace: thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
#StarInvestigation by @KenyonWallace: thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
A Star analysis of government inspection reports over four years found that the home — where 81 residents have died of COVID — was cited by Ministry of Long-Term Care inspectors 43 times for failing to comply with provincial rules. /2 thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
Compliance failures, between February 2017 and December 2020, included ineffective infection and prevention measures, the “rough handling” of a resident by a personal support worker and a lack of a skin assessment on a resident whose skin “turned black” /3 thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
A police officer slams a man's head into a police cruiser. A cop punches a Black man walking home from the mosque. Videos of police violence have gone viral. So why don’t we track all punches, kicks, and body slams used by police?
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At a time of international outcry over excessive police force against racialized communities, Ontarians have an incomplete picture of the force our officers use against members of the public. Why? Because much is unreported.
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Since 1993, police in Ontario have been required to complete a “use of force" report for when a gun is drawn or a weapon is used. But the threshold for reporting the use of physical force is “a very high bar," Sam Tecle, a Jane-Finch community leader says. thestar.com/news/investiga…
In the eight years since the death of reporter Regina Martinez, Mexico has become the deadliest place in the world for the press. Now, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will reopen the investigation into her murder.
#StarInvestigation by @MarcoOved: thestar.com/news/investiga…
#StarInvestigation by @MarcoOved: thestar.com/news/investiga…
In Mexico, there was before Regina Martinez, and after.
The high-profile and widely respected investigative reporter was murdered in her home in 2012, and the gruesome crime marked the beginning of an open season on journalists. thestar.com/news/investiga…
The high-profile and widely respected investigative reporter was murdered in her home in 2012, and the gruesome crime marked the beginning of an open season on journalists. thestar.com/news/investiga…
As news of her killing made headlines around the world, her colleagues were forced to confront a startling new reality: If she wasn’t safe, no one was.
Journalists have increasingly become targets. thestar.com/news/investiga…
Journalists have increasingly become targets. thestar.com/news/investiga…
#StarInvestigation: A foreign country has surrendered “evidence” to Toronto homicide detectives probing the targeted murders of billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman, police documents filed in court reveal.
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“The results (of these searches) have yielded new evidence and have assisted investigators in corroborating existing evidence, such as witness statements, tips and video surveillance,” according to Det.-Const. Dennis Yim of the Toronto homicide unit.
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The killing of the couple occurred on the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. Their bodies had gone undiscovered for 36 hours until a realtor, touring clients through their 12,000-square-foot north Toronto home, came upon a macabre scene.
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#StarInvestigation: A Star investigation has found that problems in long-term-care homes that are escalated to the director of the inspections branch rarely result in formal orders to comply from Ontario’s top enforcement official.
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Of 99 referrals made by inspectors in the last two years to the director, just seven resulted in director’s orders. A referral is made when an inspector identifies serious violations of provincial rules or high-risk situations. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
Over 14 months beginning in August 2018, government inspectors found that Creedan Valley Care Community, a private long-term-care home in Creemore, Ont., failed time and time again to comply with provincial legislation designed to keep residents safe. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
