ARTICLES FROM THE TORONTO STAR


Unexploded wartime ordinances:
Bombs in your backyard

Lac Megantic train disaster:
Railway owner behind Quebec train disaster had history of derailments, cost-cutting

Montreal corruption:
Montreal Man resigns after arrest on corruption charges
Montreal mayor’s resignation spurs native son’s lament

Martin Kenney:
Martin Kenney - International fraud fighter

Blackfire in Chiapas - May 6, 2013: Blackfire in Chiapas - May 6, 2013:
Canadian mining company got embassy help amid controversy in Mexico: advocacy group

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Corruption in Cuba

Toronto Man sentenced to nine years for corruption in Cuba - June 19 2013
Read the Spanish version in El Nuevo Herald: Canadiense declara culpable

Cuba cracks down on prostitution after Star/Herald series
And in Spanish:
Cuba arremete contra prostitutas
Canadian awaits his verdict - May 25 2013
Canadian ambassador to Cuba to attend trial
Corruption in Cuba: Two Canadians caught in dragnet - Toronto Star
Read the story in Spanish from El Nuevo Herald:Arresto de empresarios expone el trasfondo de la corrupción en Cuba
Read the Miami Herald story

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Organ Trafficking:


April 2013:
Kosovo court finds five guilty of organ trafficking - April 29, 2013
'Would you sell your organs?" Prosecutor awaits verdict in Kosovo trial - April 19 2013

March 2012:
Man testifies he paid $105,000 for kidney transplant

January 2012:
'Doctor Vulture's kidney factory -
Toronto man who bought kidney abroad is key witness in transplant sale trial in Kosovo
January 22, 2012
Transplant tourism a form of cannibalism
Editorial: Curb Transplant Trafficking
Canada's kidney patients at mercy of postal codes-
Lack of national list means Ontario, B.C patients wait longest for transplants
January 23

Hindsight: Eye surgery gone wrong [April 6-7]
The terrible aftermath of a once-lauded eye surgery
Do new medical procedures get enough scrutiny before they are widely used
Stories from other victims
How Radial Keratotomy was supposed to work

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"The Ugly Canadians" - The Star's Child sex tourism series:

Ernest MacIntosh Case (April 22-23, 2013)
Supreme Court throws out Nova Scotia child abuse case
Canadian justice system faulted for cracks in system

Read the original series of articles (March 16-18, 2013
[Click here for the Child Sex Tourism series page -with all the articles and videos]

Toronto man pleads guilty to child sex tourism in Cuba - June 14 2013
Read the Spanish article in El Nuevo Herald - Pedófilo canadiense se declara culpable de abuso sexual a menores cubanas
Toronto sex offender could be first Canadian convicted of child sex tourism in Cuba
Only five men ever convicted in Canada of child sex tourism
Canadians are major customers in Cuba’s child sex market
Cuba’s most horrifying episode of child sex tourism resulted in a girl’s death
Almost nothing stops Canadian offenders from re-offending abroad
What we can learn from other countries
Toronto lawyer kept travelling despite child porn convictions
Brampton man charged

The follow-up
Paradise for sex tourists - Star editorial March 19
Canada's government promises clampdown - March 19
Canadian man arrested on child sex charges in Cambodia- April 29

Watch the videos:
"Inside the Mind of a Predator” - Watch my interview with two top profilers from the FBI and US Marshals
Inside the elite squad at Toronto Police HQ that go after child predators – watch our Star interview

And in other media:

Miami Herald
James McTurk - Portrait of an alleged traveling sex offender
How Cuba became the newest hotbed for child sex tourism

El Neuvo Herald
Read El Neuvo Herald – the Spanish edition of the Miami Herald -for their joint investigation with The Star into Cuba child sex tourism