Sylvène Gilchrist

Sylvène Gilchrist

Sylvène Gilchrist is an award winning news and documentary producer, who covers both domestic and international stories, with a special focus on Syria. She can be reached at sylvene.gilchrist@cbc.ca

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CBC Investigates

How a B.C. business scion flipped to hawking supplements and conspiracy theories

Foster Coulson was co-president of his family’s reputable multimillion-dollar company until meeting a controversial doctor during the pandemic. The B.C. businessman has since embraced conspiracy theories and started a line of businesses that caters to the edges of the American right.
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CBC News analysis finds thousands of Canadian authors, books in controversial dataset used to train AI

A CBC News investigation has found at least 2,500 copyrighted books written by more than 1,200 Canadian and Québécois authors were shared online as part of a massive — and now defunct — dataset used to train artificial intelligence.

Commons committee calls for federal registry of breast implants

A new Commons committee report is calling on Ottawa to launch a mandatory national breast implant registry that would gather “reliable and comprehensive data on the risk and benefits” of implants and alert patients promptly in the event of a recall.
CBC Investigates

U.S. conservatives are using Canadian research to justify anti-trans laws

A Toronto psychologist has become one of the most in-demand expert witnesses helping U.S. states defend laws that ban gender-affirming care. He says he's just sharing the science, but major medical associations disagree.
CBC Investigates

Why a Canadian CEO could be Puerto Rico's most-hated man

LUMA Energy — half-owned by Calgary's ATCO and led by Canadian Wayne Stensby — has a 15-year, $2-billion contract to keep Puerto Rico's lights on. But the company has become a lightning rod instead, as customers complain about frequent blackouts, appliance-frying power surges and some of the highest prices in the world.
CBC Investigates

Thousands of suspected injuries tied to breast implants revealed in manufacturer data dump, CBC analysis finds

Health Canada was left in the dark for years about thousands of suspected injuries and complications related to breast implants — including multiple mentions of a rare cancer — that manufacturers failed to report, CBC News has learned.
CBC Investigates

Some prisoners not offered COVID-19 shots until months after general public, CBC analysis finds

More than 6,700 prisoners across Canada have tested positive for COVID-19 — a rate much higher than the general population. Yet a CBC News analysis has found that in some facilities, prisoners waited until May for their chance at a first vaccination.
CBC Investigates

Why race-based data collection by police could play a role in reform debate

As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads across Canada, the conversation around police accountability and reform has grown, including a rising interest in collecting more race-based data on people who interact with officers. 
CBC Investigates

Lawmakers in Canada, U.S. call for probes of Live Nation/Ticketmaster's 'outrageous' refund policy

There are now calls from politicians in both Canada and the U.S. for investigations into global entertainment giant Live Nation over its refusal to immediately refund all ticket-holders for thousands of concerts and live events disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
CBC Investigates

Live Nation/Ticketmaster decision to withhold refunds 'reprehensible,' say fans, members of Congress

Fans around the world — and now two members of Congress — are demanding entertainment giant Live Nation refund tickets for all events cancelled or disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis. But Live Nation says 90 per cent of its shows are simply being postponed for future dates that have yet to be set.