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The Fifth Estate

Season 44 2018 - 2019
NR

  • 2018-10-15T01:00:00Z on CBC Television
  • 1h
  • 15h (15 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Documentary, News
For more than three decades, the fifth estate has been Canada's premier investigative documentary program, acquainting viewers with a dazzling parade of political leaders, shady characters and ordinary people whose lives were touched by triumph or tragedy. The tradition of provocative and courageous journalism which began with Adrienne Clarkson, Warner Troyer and Peter Reilly on September 16, 1975 continues unabated with our current team of Hana Gartner, Linden MacIntyre, Bob McKeown and Gillian Findlay.

15 episodes

Season Premiere

44x01 Unbuckled: School Bus Safety | Finding Jennifer

  • 2018-10-15T01:00:00Z1h

Why are there no seat belts on school buses? The Fifth Estate asked that question and discovered a flawed Transport Canada study which argued against seat belts.

The Trouble With Uber - Gillian Findlay reveals how Uber has come, conquered, and compromised road safety in many Canadian cities. Finding Jennifer - the second part of our investigation.

Murder in the Jungle - Mark Kelley investigates what really happened when a young man from B.C. was lynched in Peru this year. Muslim Adoption Ban - Habiba Nosheen digs into Ottawa's ban.

Unnecessary Risk - Years before Humboldt, Transport Canada was warned that without seatbelts on coach buses, people will die in an accident. The warnings were ignored.

Bob McKeown investigates a controversial Filipino church with thousands of Canadian members. / Do parents really benefit from storing their baby's cord blood in a private bank?

AI-manipulated video has become so sophisticated that words can literally be put into people's mouths. It's war. On one side, the NY Times. On the other, POTUS.

GIllian Findlay investigates a permanent birth control device. And in High Impact: Kathleen Wynne's views about seat belts on school buses have changed.

It's illegal in Ontario and drives up the price of generic drugs across Canada. So why are pharmacists engaging in it? Polygamy is against the Canadian Criminal Code.

With a new Congress having taken office, the talk of impeachment in the air. Soleiman Faqiri was a troubled young man. He suffered from mental illness.

The Lone Wolf: It was characterized as a lone wolf incident. But was it really? Ghost Immigrants: It's a small, relatively modest house in Calgary. So why was it listed as the residence for 60-people.

A young woman from B.C. was killed during a visit to India in the year 2000. Her mother and uncle allegedly planned it because she married a poor Indian rickshaw driver.

St. Anne's Indian Residential School, in Northern Ontario, was a place of horrific abuse and crimes against children that occurred over decades. | Who are the people who helped Rahaf Mohammed?

An investigation into the number of OPP officer suicides; a follow-up on the story of art thief John Mark Tillmann.

The story of Ramiro Cristales, who was sent to Canada after news leaked in Guatemala of his survival; the story of the unsolved murder of Stefano Savoili.

In August 2012, two young men were on an ATV at a cottage near Haliburton, Ont., when it crashed into a steel gate, leaving one dead and the other unscathed. What happened that day has become the subject of an almost seven-year investigation by four different police forces. Now the father of the one who died is taking on the OPP — determined to expose what he believes is a bungled investigation and trying to clear his son’s name as having caused his own death. | In July 2011, Richard Oland was found bludgeoned to death at his office — a killing that shook New Brunswick to the core, given the family’s stature in the province. His son, Dennis, was eventually convicted of murder. But he won on appeal based on an error in the trial judge’s instructions to the jury. Now he’s being retried, and his fate is in the hands of one judge and no jury. Bob McKeown, who reported on the case in February 2016, revisits the story.

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