In our season premiere of The Fifth Estate, Bob McKeown shows you what happened to the Canadian government's first effort to secure a domestic vaccine, why t... read more
In the blur of stories this year about COVID-19, one in particular, a story involving e-commerce giant Amazon, caught our eye.
An Amazon warehouse in Br... read more
“They just came in front of our house, and they open[ed] fire and they [shot] our house but fortunately nobody got hurt. The bullets hit the bars, the steel ... read more
While this is a story about a cluster of people living in New Brunswick with a “neurological disease of an unknown cause,” in many ways, it’s really a story ... read more
Reading judge’s decisions becomes a frequent part of a journalist’s job. Not all of them make you sit up astonished at what you’re reading.
So, when the w... read more
Mark Kelley and I are sitting in the back of a taxi in Nairobi, Kenya, when we suddenly receive urgent texts, followed quickly by phone calls, from the CBC o... read more
What you will see tonight on The Fifth Estate is a departure from what we normally do, in that it is not the product of months of meticulous research.
It ... read more
More than 125 women, including 60 Canadians, have now accused disgraced multimillionaire fashion mogul Peter Nygard of rape and sexual assault, but it wasn't... read more
Thousands of former interpreters and military staff (along with their families) who worked with the Canadian Armed Forces have been stuck in Afghanistan sinc... read more
The Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation was the first community to identify what are believed to be the graves of children at the site of a former residentia... read more
Since a Fifth Estate story last November about abuse endured by students of a now-closed Ontario private religious school and its connection to a U.S.-based ... read more
The Fifth Estate will show how months of planning, some secretive but much of it in the open, drew convoys to Canada’s capital, leading to an unprecedented w... read more
Frustrated parents say they should be able to force their opioid-addicted kids into care. But, in B.C., the province with the highest rate of opioid deaths, ... read more
One in three Canadians rents their home. While much of the focus has been on the rising price of buying a home, rental prices are skyrocketing, too. The Fift... read more
A joint Fifth Estate/Enquête investigation shows Canada still routinely ships plastic waste to developing countries, often illegally mixed inside containers ... read more