The Fifth Estate

Season 51

16 episodes · Oct 10, 2025

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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  • S51E1

    The Denial Machine

    Oct 10, 2025

    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.

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  • S51E2

    Funding the occupation

    Oct 17, 2025

    We're in the occupied West Bank on the trail of millions in Canadian tax deductible charitable donations. We reveal funds are supporting Israeli settlements deemed illegal under international law.

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  • S51E3

    Dying to Recover.

    Oct 24, 2025

    Investigation into for-profit, privately owned residential substance use treatment facilities across Canada that, according to the investigation, operate with little government regulation or oversight, which critics say puts the lives of patients at risk.

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  • S51E4

    Dawson Creek: Behind the Fear

    Oct 31, 202545m

    We return to small-town Dawson Creek, B.C., where residents feel besieged by violence and murder. The RCMP failed to meet the deadline it set for answers, so we return to investigate yet more killings and reveal what is behind this crime wave.

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  • S51E5

    The War on Safe Drugs

    Nov 14, 202545m

    Canada’s opioid crisis has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, costing the health and justice systems billions. Many health providers say there were solutions that could have helped. We reveal how politics got in the way.

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  • S51E6

    Smash & Grab

    Nov 21, 2025

    Smash-and-grabs are going viral on social media, but the culprits remain unknown; revealing how adults are playing the system by luring kids into violent crime with lifelong consequences.

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  • S51E7

    Trapped on the Water

    Nov 28, 2025

    Lobster is a billion-dollar industry on the East Coast; who gets to trap and when is tearing communities apart; the federal government is being blamed for doing too little to help ease tensions.

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  • S51E8

    Vanished

    Jan 16, 2026

    A vacation to Quebec's Mont Tremblant turned into a nightmare. Last February, 22-year-old Liam Toman vanished without a trace. All that remains of his last moments are CCTV footage and his wallet.

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  • S51E9

    Missing Black Boys

    Jan 23, 2026

    Reports of Black boys going missing have gone viral on social media; so have theories about what is happening to them; investigating who or what is luring these boys to remote communities.

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  • S51E10

    Canada's Crypto Fugitive

    Jan 30, 2026

    An international search is underway for a Canadian who allegedly stole millions in crypto; we go from Hamilton, Ont., to Bosnia looking for a man with academic promise who may have turned criminal.

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  • S51E11

    Last Breath

    Feb 27, 2026

    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 countrywide, sometimes even on minors.

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  • S51E12

    The Business of Bigotry

    Mar 20, 2026

    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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  • S51E13

    Critical threat

    Mar 27, 2026

    Threats to annex resource-rich Greenland shook Canadians. We reveal an American firm closely linked to Trump has secured a controlling stake in a massive rare earth mining project in Quebec.

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  • S51E14

    The Dissident & The Spy

    Apr 3, 202645m

    In November 2022, the body of a Chinese dissident was found near Gibsons, B.C. Was it a simple drowning or the result of a Chinese secret police operation? A former spy details how China uses covert means to threaten and intimidate.

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  • S51E15

    The Ostrich Con

    Apr 10, 202645m

    A small ostrich farm in rural B.C. became the centre of an international firestorm in the lead-up to a controversial cull after a bird flu outbreak. Was it necessary or government overreach? Locals say there's more to the story.

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  • S51E16

    Corruption, Crime & Cricket Canada

    Apr 17, 2026180m

    Cricket Canada is under fire amid allegations of corruption and fixing, even at the World Cup. We investigate claims of mistreatment of players and infiltration and death threats by organized crime.

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