The Fifth Estate - Season 51

The Fifth Estate - Season 51

Season 51

The season features in-depth investigative reports on major Canadian and international issues, including corporate accountability for a massive B.C. data breach, the toxic drug crisis, and an exposé on Canadian charitable donations supporting controversial international settlements.
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DatesOct 10, 2025 - Apr 17, 2026
Previous Season

Episodes

The Denial Machine
Season 51Episode 160 min

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.

Oct 10, 2025
Funding the Occupation
Season 51Episode 260 min

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.

Oct 17, 2025
Dying to Recover
Season 51Episode 360 min

Dying to Recover

Oct 24, 2025
Dawson Creek: Behind the Fear
Season 51Episode 460 min

Dawson Creek: Behind the Fear

Oct 31, 2025
The War on Safe Drugs
Season 51Episode 560 min

The War on Safe Drugs

Nov 14, 2025
Smash & Grab
Season 51Episode 660 min

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.

Nov 21, 2025
Trapped on the Water
Season 51Episode 760 min

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.

Nov 28, 2025
Vanished
Season 51Episode 860 min

Vanished

Jan 16, 2026
Missing Black Boys
Season 51Episode 960 min

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.

Jan 23, 2026
Canada's Crypto Fugitive
Season 51Episode 1060 min

Canada's Crypto Fugitive

Jan 30, 2026
Sign in Last Breath
Season 51Episode 1160 min

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.

Feb 27, 2026
The Business of Bigotry?
Season 51Episode 1260 min

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.

Mar 20, 2026
Critical Threat
Season 51Episode 1360 min

Critical Threat

Mar 27, 2026
The Dissident & The Spy
Season 51Episode 1460 min

The Dissident & The Spy

Apr 3, 2026
The Ostrich Con
Season 51Episode 1560 min

The Ostrich Con

Apr 10, 2026
Corruption, Crime & Cricket Canada
Season 51Episode 1660 min

Corruption, Crime & Cricket Canada

Apr 17, 2026

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