Episodes

  • The story behind unsolved murders in Toronto's gay village

    The story behind unsolved murders in Toronto's gay village
    Apr 2 2019
    In this season of Uncover: The Village, reporter Justin Ling reveals the history of unsolved murder and missing persons cases in Toronto's gay village.

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    23 mins
  • A secretly-recorded phone call, and the growing SNC-Lavalin scandal

    A secretly-recorded phone call, and the growing SNC-Lavalin scandal
    Apr 1 2019
    CBC Power and Politics host Vassy Kapelos breaks down the secretly-recorded phone call between former Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould and former Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick - as the SNC-Lavalin controversy grows.

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    25 mins
  • White supremacist and homophobic posts force UCP candidates out

    White supremacist and homophobic posts force UCP candidates out
    Mar 29 2019
    Since the writ dropped in Alberta, two candidates have resigned from the United Conservative Party over Islamaphobic, white supremacist, homophobic and transphobic messages on social media. This is only the latest controversy for the party. The Jason Kenney campaign has been accused of supporting a 'kamikaze candidate' to help him win the leadership race in 2017, and the RCMP is looking into allegations of voter fraud. Maclean's Alberta correspondent Jason Markusoff says the scandals may not prevent Jason Kenney from winning the premiership. "This is an economically anxious province," says Markusoff. "Albertans are frustrated and anxious, they're looking for some change to make to liberate themselves from the status quo."

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    19 mins
  • The woman who hid Edward Snowden

    The woman who hid Edward Snowden
    Mar 28 2019
    When Edward Snowden showed up at her door, Vanessa Rodel had no idea who he was. Then she saw his face of the front page of the newspaper. Rodel and her daughter have just arrived in Canada as privately sponsored refugees. Vanessa tells the story of how she hid Snowden, who at the time was the subject of an international manhunt for leaking top secret information that exposed a global US spy program. She also talks about the price she paid to help him.

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    20 mins
  • Why Disney Absorbed Fox, Apple Wants to Make TV

    Why Disney Absorbed Fox, Apple Wants to Make TV
    Mar 27 2019
    After the merger of Disney and Fox, one movie studio controls almost 40% of the box office. The merger puts Disney in a position to compete with big tech companies like Netflix and Apple in the streaming game. But is it good for moviegoers and TV watchers? Film critic David Sims says 'bigness' can lead to bad outcomes for less profitable content like local news and art movies, but will increase our diet of superhero blockbusters. "It seems that these companies that have always existed in the movie business are looking at this industry and saying, we can only make a few kinds of movies anymore that can make money," says Sims.

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    22 mins
  • He survived a massacre and became living evidence

    He survived a massacre and became living evidence
    Mar 26 2019
    In 1982 a brutal massacre in a small farming community during the Guatemalan civil war left over 160 men, women and children dead. Over thirty years later, one of the men responsible for the horrific murders has been sentenced to more than 5000 years in prison by a Guatemalan Court. His name is Santos López Alonzo. Today on Front Burner, CBC's Nahlah Ayed explains how a little boy that Santos López kidnapped from the village after the massacre? would one day grow up and help put him behind bars.

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    29 mins
  • Mueller: no collusion, no obstruction, no exoneration

    Mueller: no collusion, no obstruction, no exoneration
    Mar 25 2019
    A summary of Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 election is out. CBC Washington correspondent Keith Boag breaks down what we know so far, and the implications for the Trump administration.

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    21 mins
  • How far right influencers thrive on YouTube

    How far right influencers thrive on YouTube
    Mar 22 2019
    The Christchurch mosque shooter formed his radical views online. Today, an examination of how far right communities spread their toxic messages on the Internet and how they use YouTube to do it.

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    28 mins