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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.
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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.
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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.
Read more:
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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.
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Polygamy is illegal, but a number of second marriages are being reported in Canada’s Muslim community.
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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.
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The office of the Governor General has appointed
@cbcmckeown
as a member of the order "for his excellence in investigative journalism for television."
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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.
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Multiple donors were sent photos of same schoolhouses WE Charity said each had fully funded.
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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.
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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.
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This Canadian took a 90% pay cut to rescue refugees and migrants at sea:
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Jagmeet Singh on how wearing a turban changed his life. Tonight
@davidcommon
has the inside story of
@theJagmeetSingh
campaign 9PM
@cbc
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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.
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Canada will impose sanctions directly on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his inner circle of advisers, Trudeau announced Friday.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
.
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Our investigation went undercover in India, using hidden cameras, to see what education recruiters are telling potential students about Canadian colleges.
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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
We've obtained thousands of pages of OPP records from the investigation into abuse at St. Anne’s.
@JorgeBarrera
@nicmeloney
#beyond94
#INDIGENOUS
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
.
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Experts say birth tourism is impacting the Canadian healthcare system.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On the night of April 18, the public was left in the dark during Canada's largest mass shooting in modern history. The Fifth Estate explores why.
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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?
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Picton. Bernardo. Williams.
This forensic psychiatrist says the case of Bruce McArthur is unlike any other alleged serial killer he has seen before.
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"We just can't vilify" smokers, says heart surgeon who opened up vape shop.
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Tonight's
#cbcfifth
The Story of
#RobFord
is now available for worldwide viewing online :
http://t.co/4HT0HhTUuF
#TOpoli
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The Unmaking of
#JianGhomeshi
:
@cbc
insiders tell the story of what really happened Friday at 9PM on
#cbcfifth
http://t.co/5ZjArcBUD1
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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
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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
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"We just can't vilify" smokers, says heart surgeon who opened up vape shop.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nearly 20 years ago, four seniors vanished in Ontario's cottage country. Was it murder? The inside story :
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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.
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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.
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The Judge repeatedly dismissed key medical evidence and expert witnesses who testified for Bantleman and teaching assistant Ferdi Tjiong.
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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.
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Pat King, a Freedom Convoy leader, remains in jail 113 days after being arrested.
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“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.
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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 💻 📱.
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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.
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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.
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#cbcfifth
has won the
#CdnScreen15
award for Best News and Information Series
http://t.co/OreSXdWzB4
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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
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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.
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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:
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“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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.'
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Police say they are confident they will find the missing piece of the puzzle in the case of 4 seniors who disappeared from Ontario's Muskoka region.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Watch "Putin's Long Shadow," the 2015 joint investigation by The Fifth Estate and PBS’ Frontline, tonight at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET on CBC News Network
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Internal WE documents leaked to CBC show that schools like this one in Irkaat, Kenya, were fully funded by multiple donors.
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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.
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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
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