Amina Diaby died last year in an accident inside one of the GTA’s largest industrial bakeries where, the company says, worker safety is its highest concern. The 23-year-old was one of thousands of Ontarians who have turned to temporary employment agencies to find jobs that often come with low pay and little training for sometimes dangerous work. The Star’s Sara Mojtehedzadeh went undercover for a month at the factory where Diaby worked.
In Cali, Colombia, saving a city from climate change means evicting thousands from their homes. The city is relocating some 30,000 people living on the Jarillon — a 23-kilometre dike holding back the powerful Cauca River — to prevent a 'catastrophe … worse than Katrina.'
Star Editor Michael Cooke travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo — the heart of one of the world’s biggest refugee crises — to see the horrors firsthand.
Iraqi photojournalist Ali Arkady was embedded with who he thought were the good guys — an elite unit of Iraqi soldiers battling Daesh in the name of a united Iraq, strong and free once and for all. But as the battle for Mosul intensified, the Iraqis lost the plot, descending into torture and murder of civilians.
Tens of thousands of kids are being shut out from megacity’s public schools by a system experts say is for population control.
Nearly eight years into Bombardier's deal with the TTC, only 35 of 121 new streetcars have been delivered. A Toronto Star investigation into what went wrong.
Days after Canadians took back the ridge in 1917, a soldier walking the barren battlefield pocketed a few acorns from a shattered oak. He mailed them home to Scarborough where they were planted on the family farm. Now, 100 years and some surprising twists later, Vimy oaks, descended from those very acorns, will once again rise over the site of Canada’s remarkable Great War victory.
Here’s how the ROM turned the tragedy of a blue whale death into one massive teachable moment — and managed to scrub out the smell.
A Star investigation reveals a disturbing number of deaths related to house fires in First Nations communities.
Many question whether the OMB should be allowed to continue wielding its unelected power over a city crunched for resources.
Canada is emerging as a popular tax haven for the global elite, who create shell companies to evade taxes.
The cops, pimps and victims all call it “The Game.” It’s no game. Young Canadian girls are being beaten, branded, bought and sold in hotels and motels, and along highways across the GTA and Ontario.
Star columnist Martin Regg Cohn travelled to his mother's hometown where her family was slaughtered in the Holocaust.
Canadian golfer Adam Hadwin used a B.C. putting lab to go from being ‘one of the worst putters in the world’ to one of the few to ever shoot a 59 on the PGA Tour.
Reaching the podium in the 4x100 relay event is a little more complicated than simply naming the four fastest runners in your country.
How Canada’s Pan Am athletes use scientific principles to reach the podium.
While Canada is celebrated as a safe haven for refugees, hundreds of unwanted immigrants like Ebrahim Toure languish indefinitely in jails across the country.
Kashif Ali has been detained in a maximum-security jail for seven years waiting to be deported.
Detention reviews in Ontario result in release less than half as often compared with the rest of Canada
While men can be victims of "reproductive coercion," the courts have ruled that men cannot recover damages for involuntary parenthood.
