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Wade Belak's wife says she believes the changes in his mental health and behaviour were caused by repeated hits to the head during his career as an NHL enforcer. Belak killed himself in 2011.
WE Charity told a parliamentary committee it had built 360 primary schoolhouses in Kenya with donors’ money, so we went there to see first-hand if the number of schools funded matched the number of schools actually built.
👉 Watch Thursday at 9 p.m. on CBC-TV and CBC Gem.
Canada partnered with CanSino to develop a domestic vaccine early on in the COVID-19 pandemic.
But not a single dose was administered to Canadians. Our investigation reveals how the deal fell apart.
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We’ve obtained thousands of documents detailing abuse at St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Northern Ontario. For years, these records were hidden from survivors who needed them for compensation claims.
Warning: This video contains graphic details.
Our investigation reveals how, despite warnings, police failed to prepare for the convoy that descended on Ottawa. Host Gillian Findlay talks to organizers and asks why police quickly lost control.
👉 Watch Thursday at 9 p.m. on
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TV 📺 and stream on
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💻 📱
Don Cherry was let go from
#HNIC
earlier this week for divisive remarks he made during Saturday's Coach's Corner. But this 1990 Fifth Estate interview shows Cherry has a history of sharing his controversial opinions. Watch more this Sunday at 9 p.m.
Our investigation has found that Drax, which runs the largest power station in the U.K., catapulted a small industry it says is green into an international operation dependent on logging in areas that include B.C.'s old growth and untouched forests.
Is this why our generic drugs are expensive? We caught pharmacists in Ontario openly asking for illegal kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies, which could be inflating drug prices.
Kelli Ewen lost her husband, NHL enforcer Todd Ewen, to suicide. Now she’s among those demanding that the league better support players who have suffered head injuries. Watch our documentary Hockey fight: Wives reveal the cost of concussions on Sunday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
TV/Gem.
More than a thousand Chinese immigrants were clients of Sunny Wang, commonly known as a “ghost consultant” — who helped them create the illusion they were living in Canada to gain citizenship when they were actually in China.
How do you tell if the video you’re watching is real? Some worry video manipulation is the next phase in the rise of fake news.
@cbcmarkkelley
met some of the people building the technology, and found out they’re the ones warning about its very existence.
A young woman from B.C. was killed during her honeymoon in India in 2000. Now her mother and uncle have been extradited to India to stand trial for her murder.
Ontario Provincial Police officers are speaking out about a workplace culture of bullying and harassment. Our investigation reveals how the OPP failed to act on recommendations that might have saved lives.
Warning: This video contains graphic content.
Saudi teen Rahaf Mohammed was granted asylum in Canada this year, but she didn’t get here on her own. She was advised by members of a secret network of young women, who’ve mostly only met online, and who put their lives in each other’s hands
@NahlahAyed
From allegations of harassment to sexual assault,
@judyatrinh
exposes a culture of sexism in the Ottawa Police Service and questions how complaints are investigated. Watch our documentary Exposed: Sexism within the Ottawa police Thursday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
TV +
@cbcgem
.
Our investigation went undercover in India, using hidden cameras, to see what education recruiters are telling potential students about Canadian colleges.
An in-house electric chair is just one of the stories found in OPP documents detailing abuse and crimes against children at St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Northern Ontario.
Find out more about our investigation on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on CBC TV
Pregnant women travelling to Canada to give birth to babies who will automatically become Canadian citizens are prompting concerns about the strain they may be putting on the health-care system. Watch our investigation Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on
@CBC
TV/Gem.
@cbcerica
This police interview with a driver who filed a complaint against an off-duty officer following a road rage incident shows how police investigate themselves. After the interview, the driver decided not to pursue criminal charges against Nathan Parker.
Halifax purposely kept confidential the date it would remove homeless encampments in the city in August and didn't even tell service providers, according to records obtained under access-to-information laws.
We went undercover in India to reveal the pitch made to some students planning to attend Canadian colleges and the reality that awaits when they arrive.
Watch our investigation Thursday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
-TV or stream it on
@CBCGem
.
Why are there seat belts in cars but not on Canadian school buses? Everyday about 2 million kids in Canada ride to school on a bus without one. Our investigation reveals this policy is based on a flawed study from the 1980s. Watch the episode Sunday at 9 ET on
#cbctv
Jordan Afolabi, a first-year law student at the University of Windsor, says the racial bias in some campus hallways “can be the difference between me being a lawyer and me being a criminal.”
Uber's advertisements have long promised women that they are the "safe ride home." That wasn't the case for Hannah Crossgrove. She spoke to
@Gillian5th
about a driver who showed up at her door and demanded her number. Uber's response? A refund.
A former Amazon employee at a Brampton, Ont., warehouse that had to be shut down due to a COVID-19 outbreak earlier this year says he feared for his safety going to work.
Can you really trust the driver behind the wheel of your Uber? Our investigation reveals the lack of mandatory training for Uber drivers and how the company continues to try to avoid responsibility. Watch the episode this Sunday at 9 p.m. on
#CBCTV
@Gillian5th
We examine how B.C. has become a leading exporter of wood pellets that are burned to fuel energy needs in the U.K., Japan and South Korea, raising questions about its impact on our forests and the climate.
Watch our investigation Thursday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
-TV and
@CBCGem
.
A family's home was consumed by floodwaters after a dike failed, causing the nearby river to overflow. The Fifth Estate has learned that experts warned for years the area's dike system could fail.
From a law student being banned from campus to an esteemed professor stripped of his job,
@ashatomlinson
documents the stories of Black Canadians who say they’re being targeted by university administrators. Watch our documentary Thursday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
-TV and
@CBCGem
.
This woman says she was sexually harassed repeatedly by the deputy chief of the Ottawa police. In a statement of defence, Uday Jaswal characterizes his interactions with her as misunderstandings. Exposed: Sexism within Ottawa Police airs tonight at 9 on
@CBC
+
@cbcgem
@judyatrinh
Natalie Provost told host
@cbcmarkkelley
how she vividly remembers the day she survived the École Polytechnique shooting, while 14 other women lost their lives. Today marks the 30th anniversary. Now, she wants semi-automatic rifles like the one the shooter used banned in Canada.
We reveal how much money the Mormon church has raised in Canada and where much of it has gone. Some former members in Canada and elsewhere say it’s led them to leave the church.
Watch our investigation Thursday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
-TV or stream it on
@CBCGem
.
Nearly one in three Canadians rents their home and rental prices are skyrocketing. The Fifth Estate examines what’s driving prices up, and driving some people out of their homes.
👉 Watch our investigation Thursday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
-TV 📺 and stream on
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💻📱
Star Blanket Cree Nation has announced that ground penetrating radar searches at the site of the former Lebret Indian Industrial School found more than 2,000 "hits" over the past year.
Laura Babcock’s ex-boyfriend began his own investigation into her disappearance days after she went missing. But when he brought evidence about one of her murderers to police, he says they did nothing.
This shipment of recycled paper from Canada was caught by a Belgian port inspector on its way to India. It was contaminated with illegal plastic waste.
Watch our investigation, Bait and switch: Recycling's dirty secrets, at 9 p.m. on CBC-TV or CBC Gem.
What if there was another option for ending gang violence in Canada? Regina’s North Central neighbourhood is gripped by gang violence, drug addiction and poverty. We asked at a community forum could Operation Ceasefire work here?
For 37 years, police have not been able to identify the killer of two Toronto women. Now, they have tracked down the suspect’s great-grandparents using a new DNA mapping technique.
@Ronna_Syed
Years before the Humboldt tragedy, Transport Canada was warned that without seatbelts on coach buses, passengers were at unnecessary risk of serious injuries. Our investigation reveals how those warnings were ignored.
@cbcmckeown
@HarveyCashore
@kaivany
WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
For survivors who attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School, the discovery of what are believed to be graves stirred secrets and memories of abuse they saw and endured decades ago.
Hockey stars Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews and Wayne Gretzky were contacted by The Fifth Estate as part of an investigation into sports betting in Canada and refused to talk about their brands, despite sponsorship deals to do exactly that.
Four seniors disappeared from a retirement home in Ontario’s Muskoka region without a trace 20 years ago. Joan Lawrence, Ralph Grant, John Crofts and John Semple are all presumed dead by police. Investigators say they are receiving 'significant' tips from the public.
BREAKING: The Fifth Estate has learned from sources that Toronto police have identified the killer of nine-year-old Christine Jessop, who was abducted from her GTA home before being raped and killed in 1984.
Former Fifth Estate host and producer Hana Gartner has been appointed to the Order of Canada for her contributions to investigative journalism. Out of Control was her last story with us. She says it left a lasting impact on her.
In the last 15 years, the Mormon church in Canada has moved more than $1 billion across the border to Brigham Young universities in the U.S., our investigation has found.
This mother went to prison for the death of her baby. But authorities never revealed they had a report from outside experts that disputed some of those findings. The medical examiner stands by his work, and the report was later quashed. Watch our investigation tonight at 9 p.m.
Few know much about the girls held at a detention centre in 1970s Quebec that was eventually closed for being "overly jail-like". Now, decades later, some of those women are telling stories of their time inside Marian Hall. Watch tonight at 9 pm on
@CBC
TV
The Ottawa Police Service won't allow a repeat of the Freedom Convoy protest that jammed the city's downtown with thousands of noisy trucks for three weeks last winter, according to its new chief.
“I thought I wasn’t going to see my family again.” Jason Devine was beaten in his home in 2010 by attackers he believes are members of the far-right. Watch our documentary, Confronting hate: How Antifa is tracking the extreme right, Sunday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
TV/Gem.
Earnings of Amazon and its owner, Jeff Bezos, have skyrocketed during the pandemic, but at what cost to the safety of their employees? We talk to workers about the gruelling conditions they say they faced.
👉 Watch Thursday at 9 p.m. on CBC-TV 📺 and CBC Gem 💻 📱.
In our documentary, The Price WE Paid, we made reference to an investigation into WE's corporate partnerships, published by Canadaland in 2018. We wanted to clarify that the Canadaland piece was written by
@whoisjaren
, now a reporter at The Globe and Mail.
This week, The Fifth Estate examines the practice of medically assisted death in Canada amid concerns that the program is expanding too quickly to include people who are not terminally ill.
Classified documents found in Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home are the subject of a criminal investigation in the U.S. We reveal why they also set off alarm bells in Ottawa.
Watch our documentary Thursday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
-TV or stream it on
@CBCGem
.
The RCMP might have never learned there was an alleged spy plotting to leak classified intelligence secrets if the FBI hadn’t intercepted a message during a separate investigation,
@cbcfifth
reports.
@cbcmckeown
We tracked cases of alleged group sexual assault involving junior hockey players that have been investigated by police across the country since 1989 — half of which surfaced in the past decade.
Warning: This story contains graphic details.
Former Fifth Estate producer John Kastner remembered Fighting Back as the toughest story he ever told. The documentary featured four children battling leukemia in the late ‘70s. Three died while it was being filmed. Watch it here:
We look at the culture of Canadian hockey and why a troubling history suggests an alleged sexual assault in 2018 by some members of Canada’s world junior team may not have been not an isolated incident.
Watch our investigation Thursday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
-TV or
@CBCGem
.
“If someone is struggling and having all these terrible thoughts, love is not enough” - Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters. Our doc focuses on Cdn mass shooter Alexandre Bissonnette + asks: Can you spot a mass shooter before it’s too late? Watch Sunday @ 9pm
There are an estimated 40,000 abandoned children in Pakistan. Canadian families are eager to adopt them, but a federal government road block stands in their way.
@HabibaNosheen
investigates.
Legal marijuana is coming to Canada, but how will police determine who is driving high? Canada is investing in a test that requires police to use observation techniques and their judgement. But some drivers in the U.S. have been wrongly arrested. Watch Friday on
@CBC
at 9 p.m. ET
The RCMP had critical details about the shooter involved in last spring’s mass killings in Nova Scotia for nearly 12 hours before they shared it with the public — information many of the victims’ families say could have saved lives.
@GillianCBCFifth
Two Canadian women have come forward to say they were raped by fashion designer Peter Nygard. An investigation by The Fifth Estate confirms key elements of their allegations. Nygard says their stories are 'false' and a 'lie.'
After the resignation of Future Electronics CEO Robert G. Miller last week, the Montreal-based company has announced it has cut ties with all employees named in an investigation by Enquête and The Fifth Estate that alleged he paid teens for sex.
A police officer probing the death of three CP Rail crewmen killed in a runaway train crash in B.C. last February alleges he was denied access to key evidence.
"I was ordered to stop investigating."
Dozens of international students from India who have been accused of using forged documents to get into Canada say they were defrauded by immigration agents back home.
Canada rejected an offer from Honeywell, a major U.S. industrial conglomerate, to supply N95 masks to protect health workers on the front line at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On our season premiere, we investigate why a controversial deal to produce a made-in-Canada vaccine was signed early in the pandemic and how it fell apart without a single dose administered to Canadians.
Watch tonight at 9 p.m on
@cbc
TV and
@cbcgem
.
What did police know about the gunman as the Nova Scotia mass shooting unfolded? We take you inside those 13 hours of mayhem — including what the RCMP knew before and during. Watch our documentary Monday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
TV & Gem.
@GillianCBCfifth
Bruce McArthur is charged with the murders of six men from Toronto’s gay community, but this isn’t the first time gay men have been found brutally killed. Police investigating McArthur are now revisiting cold cases from the 1970s.
In Unbuckled: School bus safety, we ask why are there are no seat belts on school buses? We discovered a flawed Transport Canada report in our investigation that argued against seat belts.
@cbcmckeown
investigates.
To the families of two women slain in Toronto in 1983, the killer seemed like a ghost who vanished without a trace. We take you inside the remarkable search for a suspect.
Watch our documentary Thursday at 9 p.m. on
@CBC
-TV or stream it on
@CBCGem
.
Craig and Marc Kielburger answered questions about their relationship with the Trudeau family and claim WE Charity was used as a "political football" by members of Parliament trying to "score political points" amid the controversy last year.
@cbcmarkkelley