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A senior lawyer with the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission says the provincial government owes it to families to look into whether faulty drug tests have resulted in the unjust removal of their ...

This spring, Canada’s Motherisk program shut its doors and permanently disconnected its helplines, disappointing the millions of Canadian patients and clinicians who had relied on its services since ...

SickKids hospital challenging lawsuits over unreliable test results that informed decisions to take kids from their parents ...

Just before Christmas, the findings of an independent review of the Motherisk Hair Testing Laboratory were released. The report, prepared by Justice Susan Lang of the Ontario Court of Appeal, makes ...

If you think back to the Satanic panic of the late 1980s, when court after court listened to self-described experts claiming that their intensive, impeccable research proved kids were being ritually ...

TORONTO – A review of nearly 1,300 child welfare cases spanning 25 years has found that a now-discredited hair analysis program in Toronto that tested for drug and alcohol use caused extensive – and ...

Ontario’s review of the controversial Motherisk Drug Testing Laboratory at the Hospital for Sick Children could have profound implications for child welfare agencies and courts across Canada.

In the history of child apprehension perpetrated by Canadian governments for terrible reasons, 56 isn’t a big number. It’s a big number in the 21st century, though You can save this article by ...

Fifteen years before scandal engulfed the Hospital for Sick Children’s Motherisk lab, SickKids, by its own acknowledgment, had every right to fire the doctor in the middle of it all. In late 1999, Dr.

This spring, Canada’s Motherisk program shut its doors and permanently disconnected its helplines, disappointing the millions of Canadian patients and clinicians who had relied on its services since ...