AIDS researchers have struggled to find a cure for the disease for thirty years. But what if they have it all wrong?

Read the latest offering from CCIR Associate Bruce Livesey in the new issue of Maissonneuve

Bruce Livesey

June 22, 2009

Susanna Kelley

May 21, 2009

There's been a major outcry in the last while about the crisis in journalism. Daily news reporters are being laid off across the country - the Canadian Association of Journalism puts the number at over two thousand in the last two years. Mostly we've heard of the threat to local daily news, as major television networks such as CTV and Global seek to sell or shut down entire stations. As CBC lays off 800 people and cancels shows to cut costs, regional reporting is vulnerable. It's enough to make a journalist weep.

Listen to these recent documentaries by CCIR Reporter Susanna Kelley on CBC's the Current.

Former North Spirit Lake Chief, Sally Bunting, now councils community members with addictions (credit: Susanna Kelley)

“. . .While everything looked peaceful from the outside, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) had brought in heavily armed units to where Shawn Brant and other Mohawk Warriors had blockaded Highway 401, the CN Rail line and Highway 2. A group from the community -- including a woman named Mandy Smart -- had gone off to meet with OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino to try to hold off any possible raid because they believed there were children behind the barricades. . .” (from the segment intro, March 26, 2008)

Executive Director Bilbo Poynter and author
Susanne Reber discuss Starlight Tour

The launch of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting (CCIR) last Saturday, featuring CBC Investigative Producer and CCIR Advisory board member, Susanne Reber was a success.

Reber was speaking at the Skydragon Centre, in downtown Hamilton, about her book, ‘Starlight Tour: The Last Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild’, and on the future of investigative reporting in Canada.

‘Starlight Tour’, the term used to describe the police practice of dropping Native men and women outside of Canadian prairie cities and towns, alleged by First Nations, is the real life account of the last night of Neil Stonechild,

A Letter from the President of the Board of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting

September 2008

It is my great pleasure, in my capacity as President of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting (CCIR), to welcome you to the CCIR’s new website.

Check out these recent stories by CCIR Associates
* stories were not produced by the Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting

Our Mafia and Hells Angels have grown in a nice, co-operative Canadian way. Now, big-time crime is run so much like a business that the boundary between legit and crooked is beginning to blur

AGRICULTURE: WORLD FOOD CRISIS

The Green Revolution that began in 1945 transformed farming and fed millions in developing countries. But its methods over the long run are proving to be stunningly destructive. Alex Roslin reports