Sandra Bartlett
Managing Producer/Investigative Journalist | Toronto
About Sandra Bartlett
Sandra Bartlett is an investigative journalist with over 25 years of national and international reporting experience. Based in Toronto, she worked on the ICIJ project Secrecy for Sale and Skin and Bone. Bartlett worked as a producer and reporter in NPR's Investigative Unit based in Washington where she collaborated on projects with PBS Frontline, ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting, as well as individual journalists in Canada and Europe.
In 20-plus years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as an editor, a reporter and producer, Bartlett covered daily news, foreign assignments and special programming. She worked in London, Europe, Israel, Cuba and Pakistan.
The devil they knew
It falls on ordinary people to prove that the chemicals are toxic before they are regulated by the government. That is simply backward.
‘The best regulations money can buy’
Toxicologist Linda Birnbaum describes the pushback from industry and politicians that started to stall or prevent regulation against dangerous chemicals in Episode 3 of The Poison Detectives.
Was the same chemical with a suspected link to cancer in firefighters also killing cattle?
Canada's National Observer presents The Poison Detectives Episode 2 — Who’s Minding the Store?
A firefighter’s wife and the nasty chemical secret no one wanted to hear
When Diane’s husband, Paul Cotter, was diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 55, they were surprised and wondered if it was related to his job as a firefighter. Then, Paul began getting calls from firefighters at his station in Worcester, Mass. — all of them with prostate cancer.
Sharing my story behind The Salmon People podcast…
If you enjoy our podcasts, the best way to support us is to donate to Canada’s National Observer’s spring fundraising campaign to raise $100,000 to fund our vital climate journalism.
Mobilizing for War
Should we treat the climate emergency like a war? Seth Klein thinks so. In his book, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, he lays out a comparison between the Second World War and the climate crisis. He argues that we can't win the war unless we work together like we did in the war against the Nazis. Max Fawcett challenges that idea.
