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Canadian officials supplied Syrian torturers with interrogation questions for three Canadians who were detained and tortured in Syria and Egypt during the post-Sept. 11 crackdown on terror suspects.
Documents obtained by the fifth estate show Canadian officials not only knew Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati and Muayyed Nureddin would likely be tortured at the hands of Syrian intelligence officers, they supplied them with interrogation questions.
Two separate federal inquiries found Canadian authorities played a role in the torture of Canadians abroad and the trio -- none of whom was ever arrested in Canada for suspected terror offences -- filed a $100-million lawsuit against the government in 2006.
Earlier this year, their lawyers won a lengthy court battle with the RCMP and CSIS to gain access to nearly 18,000 pages of heavily redacted documents.
CBC News obtained exclusive access to the documents.
In “The Torture Files,” a joint investigation by the fifth estate and CBC’s The National, Terence McKenna explores just how far CSIS and the RCMP went in their collaboration with the brutal Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad that resulted in the torture of three Canadians.
The treasure trove consists of internal memos, briefing notes from field agents to their superiors, inter-agency communications, emails, reports and even a memo that shows at least one RCMP officer on the case might have had serious doubts about their targets.
Watch Terence McKenna's report on The National on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and Friday night at 11:30 PM on the fifth estate. The Torture Files also airs Sunday at 7 PM ET on CBC News Network.
Big Tobacco is trying clean up its image, moving into the booming e-cigarette business which continuing to peddle the deadly tobacco products. This has left public health officials in Canada, the U.K. and the US
Five million Canadians still smoke. Could e-cigarettes help wean them over to a safer nicotine delivery device? Many ex-smokers say 'yes.' E-cigarettes are their salvation.
Health Canada is on the cusp of deciding how e-cigarettes should be regulated. Mark Kelly heads to England -- a country that has taken bold steps in embracing the e-cigarette as a safer alternative.
Will Canada? And what will this mean for our e-cigarette industry?
Until now, e-cigarettes with nicotine have not been endorsed by Health Canada. And that's kept Big Tobacco out of the Canadian market. Will new regulations open the doors for a tarred industry to join in the e-cigarette revolution?
In recent months, tens of thousands of desperate souls have been saved from certain death in the frigid waters of the Mediterranean. Recently, the crew of the Red Cross MOAS Responder agreed to let The Fifth Estate come onboard to join in one of their rescue missions. As our cameras rolled, on a single day, hundreds of migrants were plucked from listing wooden boats and rubber dinghies. The CBC's Nahlah Ayed chronicles the huge international effort to save migrants who seek a better life in Europe but often risk death getting there.
They are images that shocked America and were shared around the world – disturbing cell phone videos taken by bystanders of police shooting black men in America. They became political fodder for an ugly presidential campaign.
To capture what is really going on during these confrontations, police-worn body cameras are increasingly seen as the answer: a way to curb the killings - and police the police.
But can the police-worn body cameras also distort the picture? Do they sometime give us an incomplete version of what really happened?
Mark Kelley investigates what happens when police are “caught on camera” in the U.S. and Canada.
It was a tale all too common - a young Indigenous man drowned in Thunder Bay. Stacy DeBungee was last seen alive by some friends on the evening of October 18, 2015. What happened that night was a mystery, but three hours after finding the body the next morning Thunder Bay police issued a press release saying they found nothing suspicious about the death. It was the same rush to judgement they had been accused of in many other deaths of young Indigenous people. So the fifth estate went looking for answers and found several people who were there that night – but they had never been properly interviewed by the police. Gillian Findlay investigates.
On November 16, 1969, the body of a young woman was found along Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. She had been stabbed 157 times. The body was never claimed. The name of the murdered woman would remain unknown for the next 46 years -- her case was simply known as “Jane Doe #59.” Nearly half a century later, three childhood friends from Montreal identify her as their long lost friend – Reet Jurvetson. Now the Los Angeles and Montreal police are trying to piece together the final weeks of Jurvetson’s life and the fifth estate helps uncover new clues that might help unlock a decades-old mystery.
A tale from the shadier side of the stock market - from the streets of Montreal, but with a cast of characters right out of a Hollywood movie.
A joint investigation by the fifth estate and Radio-Canada’s Enquete program digs into the often dubious Montreal-based penny stock promotion business and raises questions about how Quebec’s financial market regulators failed to stop certain promoters who were allegedly cheating thousands of investors across North America.
It was a murder that shocked a nation. Tim Bosma, a church-going husband and young father had gone on a test drive with two men who said they wanted to buy his truck. Dellen Millard and Mark Smich were later found guilty of his murder. Now Bob McKeown and the fifth estate team unravel what happened on that fateful spring night – with witnesses who speak for the first time, never-before-seen video and an in-depth look into the background of Dellen Millard.
Giving chronic alcoholics an hourly dose of wine - a bold but controversial way to deal with alcoholism. Mark Kelley visits an Ottawa treatment centre to meet the residents and the care workers involved in a program that has attracted attention from around the world.
We pay more for prescription drugs than almost every other country in the world - and rising drug costs are taking a toll on Canadians.
An ugly and controversial U.S. election campaign got even uglier - and more bizarre - after the election was over. In recent days Donald Trump has faced a storm of questions.
Richard Oland of the Moosehead brewing family was bludgeoned to death. His son Dennis is convicted of the brutal murder, but then wins his appeal and is set free.
On January 29, 2017, a young man in Quebec enters a mosque and fires his rifle into the crowd - killing six worshipers. On the same weekend, tens of thousands gather across North America to protest what they see as President Trump's discriminatory bans on Muslim immigrants and refugees. Do these events point to a more fearful future? Do they suggest more dangerous and precarious times ahead for Muslims in North America?
The fifth estate takes a walk on the wild side. Bob Mckeown presents portraits of people who experience the animal kingdom in very different ways.
A CBC investigation reveals how lawyers across Canada have misappropriated and mishandled clients' money to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.
It may seem bizarre to put the words “Mennonites” and “Drugs” in the same sentence, but for years some members of the God-fearing religious community has been smuggling narcotics from Mexico into the United States and Canada
A story of money, secrecy and greed: a tax dodge for the wealthy dreamed up by one of the biggest accounting giants in the world.
It grew in just a couple of years from a hashtag to a powerful movement that has taken on police shootings of black people and is defiantly challenging the political establishment.
The Fifth Estate takes you inside the powerful Black Lives Matter movement, with Janaya Khan, the Toronto activist who has become its international ambassador.
They come in the dead of night, in the bitter cold - refugees seeking haven in Canada. Hundreds have crossed the border from the United States in the last couple of months alone.
Every year, Canada receives several thousand people claiming asylum. But once they are here, what really happens to asylum seekers? The Fifth Estate’s new co-host Habiba Nosheen looks at the hopes, the fears and the long legal battles to get to stay in Canada.
Eight deaths of elderly patients under her care. Nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer is arrested for murder. Charged with eight counts of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder. What happened? Revelations about her and her life from close friends, neighbours and the nurse’s own words.
In a season finale of The Fifth Estate, the youth of Cross Lake, a northern Indigenous community, share their hopes and dreams about growing up in a northern Indigenous community that has been plagued by suicides.
