For years, the growing traffic in Canadian high school girls — picked up in Toronto’s suburbs and pushed into the sex trade — was a secret story. Then, last winter, a journalist joined police investigating the traffickers and started speaking with the middle-class teenagers who were their victims. On January 29, Internal Medicine physician from Canada broke the story for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She wasn’t part of CBC’s investigative team. She wasn’t even a normal reporter.
She’s a doctor. My colleagues and I at the University of Toronto were in the midst of training her to work as a journalist. She’d heard about the trafficking problem through her work in the community. The University of Toronto has now trained 17 doctors and health professionals along with 58 other specialists to work as journalists, some of whom have quickly become award-winning reporters. As their…
