The Fifth Estate - Season 51
Season 51
Episodes
The Denial Machine
A data breach at B.C.'s Interior Health involving tens of thousands of employees' most sensitive information is for sale on the dark web. Health-care workers' identities are repeatedly stolen while the agency denies the breach ever happened.
Funding the Occupation
We're in the occupied West Bank on the trail of millions in tax deductible charitable donations sent to support Israeli settlements deemed illegal under international law. Canada calls the expansion of settlements a barrier to Palestinian statehood.
Dying to Recover
Dawson Creek: Behind the Fear
The War on Safe Drugs
Smash & Grab
A crime wave is hitting jewelry stores across Canada. Smash-and-grabs are going viral on social media, but who's really behind these robberies? We reveal how adults are playing the system by luring kids into violent crime with lifelong consequences.
Trapped on the Water
Lobster is a billion-dollar industry on the East Coast. Big money brings big problems. Who gets to trap and when is tearing communities apart. Fishers on all sides are accusing the federal government of doing too little to help ease tensions.
Vanished
Missing Black Boys
Reports of Black boys going missing have gone viral on social media. So have theories about what is happening to them. We investigate who or what is luring these boys to remote communities and meet families on a desperate search to find them.
Canada's Crypto Fugitive
Sign in Last Breath
Designed to protect law enforcement and health-care workers, spit hoods have been linked to deaths. Banned in parts of the world, in Canada, they're used commonly, sometimes even on minors, and few agencies track their use or the consequences.
The Business of Bigotry?
Online extremist content is influencing real-life violence. To creators, it's free speech; it's also big business. We go from Nashville to Calgary to eastern Europe on the trail of two Canadian companies that help creators turn hate into profit.
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