Dave Brown is a retired reporter for the Ottawa Citizen. The Citizen has removed his work from its website. Here are some of his articles dealing with Children's Aid.

• Even punishment for impaired driving should be guided by justice February 2003
• Domestic-abuse industry will lie low, wait for bad publicity to pass January 2003
• Courts that tear families apart without justification are goofy November 2002
• Child protection has become a growth industry in Ontario. October 2002
• March 2002
  • Children's Aid Society censured for putting a child in limbo
  • If limbo is a bad place for children, why keep sending them there?
• Splitting up a family was a dirty business January 2002
• Some parents should be asked about the stress on judges September 2002
• Girl Runs Away from Child Protectors.
  • Family fights three-year battle with CAS, March 2000
  • Child begs for chance to tell court to return her to her parents June 2002
  • Attempts to protect child only put her more at risk June 2002
  • Learning about courts the hard way September 2002
  • Is child-protection system keeping kids from their families? February 2003
  • The state as parent carries a huge cost June 2003
  • Child protection system not always geared to help young charges August 2003
• Agency's admission of error offers hope. May 2001
• Five part series. December 2000
  • We are tearing families apart
  • When love isn't enough
  • Mother presumed guilty by court
  • Why did somebody else decide she couldn't be my mother?
  • We need protection from the protectors
• Children's Aid Society following their orders June 2000
• Protecting children just got harder April 2000
• Ottawa couple battles for their seized child March 2000
• CAS rushes into bizarre battle for toddler December 1999
• There's a long story behind this custody battle [article unavailable]
• Four part series April 1999
  • When courts, parents collide
  • Drugs started downward spiral
  • New eyes on old case change everything
  • Family courts deliver capital punishment
• Who's watching the child protectors? January 1999
• Six part series. December 1998
  • The loopy logic protecting our children
  • Child-protection industry tears families apart
  • Wife's 'hissy fit' starts domestic court hell
  • Women's shelters under veil of secrecy
  • Zero tolerance adds up to zero marriage
  • New Ontario law makes social workers accountable at last
• Priest [Dorian Baxter] fights CAS over abuse of power that put him through hell April 1996