Season 50
14 episodes · Oct 11, 2024
THE FIFTH ESTATE brings audiences Canada's top investigative stories. From across the country and around the world, Fifth Estate journalists dig deeper to get to the stories that matter
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- S50E1
Dawson Creek: We Want Our Town Back Season
Oct 11, 2024A viewer tip leads to Dawson Creek, B.C., where residents feel ignored during a crime wave.
- S50E2
Road to Ruin
Oct 18, 2024Canadian animation pioneer Daniel Langlois was known for films like the Matrix and Jurassic Park. When the millionaire and his partner were killed in Dominica last December, it exposed a web that extends into politics and corruption.
- S50E3
Stronach: Power and Silence
Oct 25, 2024Billionaire Frank Stronach stands charged with 18 counts of sex crimes; the Fifth Estate has found further claims from the last several years Mark Kelley takes the allegations directly to Stronach.
- S50E4
The Election and the War
Nov 1, 2024Donors and political action committees could use the war in Gaza to influence the U.S. election
- S50E5
Conspiracy in Coutts
Nov 15, 2024A judge has ruled that two protesters involved in convoy blockade in Coutts Alta, where willing
- S50E6
Cracked: Crimes Behind Encryption
Nov 22, 2024Vancouver’s Sky ECC promised confidentiality to customers with its encrypted cellphones, which were a hit with criminals but also the target of an international police sting. The investigation that brought thousands of criminals, and Sky, down.
- S50E9
Pet Care Inc.
Jan 24, 2025The cost of owning a pet has skyrocketed as big business moves into vet care.
- S50E10
The Shadow War on Libraries
Feb 7, 2025Now more and more libraries find themselves on the front lines of a culture war, with battles over books, bans and the freedom to read. The attacks on libraries started in the U.S. and, like a slow-burning brushfire, they've been moving north, the flames fanned by pressure groups who feel libraries should not have books about sex education, gender identity or stories
- S50E11
Inside Job: The airport gold heist
Feb 14, 2025It was a sensational heist — $20 million in gold stolen from Canada’s busiest airport. On a chase that spans the globe — from India to Dubai to rural Pennsylvania, we make surprising discoveries about the gold, guns and the suspects still at large.
- S50E12
The second term project 2025
Feb 28, 2025Donald Trump's tariff war has people on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border in a panic. From behind the scenes of inauguration day to the oil fields of Alberta — is there a plan behind the chaos? Project 2025 provides the blueprint.
- S50E13
Tax Hack: Identity Theft
Mar 7, 2025“Tens of thousands of taxpayer accounts hacked as CRA repeatedly paid out millions in bogus refunds”
- S50E14
A Sister's Promise
Mar 14, 2025“A Sister’s Promise,” documents Meggie’s journey as she hits the streets of east London searching for tips in her sister’s case. We’re there as the 62-year-old woman tracks down people of interest and grills them about what they know about Sonya’s death.
- S50E15
Trapped: The Online Terror Network
Mar 21, 2025This week is The Fifth Estate’s second investigation into 764, a satanic neo-Nazi network targeting vulnerable kids online and forcing them to harm their pets, themselves and others — and even take their own lives.