11 Indigenous children died in last four months connected to Ontario’s child welfare system
Former child advocate calls for independent inquiry into child welfare system
Kenneth Jackson
Kenneth Jackson is an investigative reporter in Ottawa, Ont. with more than two decades in the business. He got his start in community newspapers before joining the Ottawa Sun in 2007 where he worked the police beat. In 2011, Jackson joined APTN to break the Bruce Carson scandal. The former senior aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried using his contacts in the federal government to sign water deals with First Nations. The RCMP would charge Carson with influence peddling based on APTN’s reporting. The case would make it all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, which upheld his conviction in 2018. In recent years, Jackson has focused, almost exclusively, on the child welfare system in Ontario. The work has earned multiple awards, including the 2020 Michener Award.
Long-term care home ‘detained’ resident for leaving home, calls police: recording
Cayleah Lamarsh wanted to buy cigarettes at the local gas station
Ontario government wants $300 to say how many kids in care have died during pandemic
APTN News has been trying to get the data since April
Law society documents reveal how Crown avoided discipline in wrongful conviction of Metis man
Clayton Boucher was wrongfully convicted in 2017 after exonerating evidence withheld in Alberta
Ontario increases size of foster homes, allow inspections over telephone due to pandemic
Plus an update on mothers denied visits with their children
Following Cayleah: Death total reaches 27 in her long-term care home as she recovers in hospital
Family of another resident say home leaving everyone in the dark on severity of outbreak
RCMP apologize to Métis man for withholding evidence in wrongful conviction
Apology part of recent settlement in civil lawsuit.
Disabled woman, 27, confined to nursing home tests positive for COVID-19
‘I was so scared when I found out it was COVID’
‘Sitting duck’: Disabled woman, 27, lives in Toronto seniors home with COVID-19 outbreak
She’s 27-years-old and lives in a long-term care home. But not by choice. The disabled…