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| S28 E5: The Bridge | "Someone Knows Something" | 16 Sep 2024 | 00:49:09 | |
The investigation continues, leading to the doorsteps of more former Klansmen. Then, a surprising revelation from Lampton. For transcripts of this series, please visit this page. | |||
| S28 E4: Bunkley | "Someone Knows Something" | 16 Sep 2024 | 00:47:41 | |
David and Thomas search for MHSP officers and FBI agents who were present during Seale and Edwards's arrests. And Thomas looks for the support of the local community as he plans to confront the Klansmen in person. For transcripts of this series, please visit here. | |||
| S27 E5: The Crater | "Bloodlines" | 20 Jul 2024 | 00:33:35 | |
Poonam makes the perilous journey to the last known location of baby Salmaan, a guesthouse near where IS made its last stand. But IS sleeper cells still lurk in the desert and Poonam only has one hour on the ground – can she find what she needs in time? | |||
| S18: "Pressure Cooker" E3: Point of No Return | 13 Jan 2023 | 00:51:28 | |
John and Amanda’s struggles with addiction complicate their fledgling plot. Will these oddballs be able to pull off an attack? Police spending escalates as Project Souvenir gets more elaborate by the day.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/pressure-cooker-transcripts-listen-1.6563380 | |||
| S18: "Pressure Cooker" E4: Ticking Time Bombs | 13 Jan 2023 | 00:52:51 | |
John and Amanda are losing their grip on reality, frustrating Abe and his shadowy accomplices. John has doubts and asks for spiritual guidance from an imam, but time is running out as zero hour approaches.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/pressure-cooker-transcripts-listen-1.6563380 | |||
| S18: "Pressure Cooker" E5: Trapped | 13 Jan 2023 | 00:55:23 | |
John and Amanda piece together their shattered reality while facing a possible lifetime in prison. As the full picture of Project Souvenir emerges in court, they start to wonder if the deception goes even deeper.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/pressure-cooker-transcripts-listen-1.6563380 | |||
| S18: "Pressure Cooker" Bonus: Finding Kaz | 13 Jan 2023 | 00:34:36 | |
A mystery lingers about what role Canada's spy agency may have played in John and Amanda's case. The puzzling character known as Kaz could be the key to solving that mystery. | |||
| S17: "The Kill List" E1: Death of an Icon | 22 Dec 2022 | 00:51:04 | |
A leading human rights activist is found dead. Many immediately suspect murder. The assassinations of dissidents like her have become commonplace in Pakistan. But Karima Baloch's body was discovered off the shores of Toronto, the city where she fled for her life.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-kill-list-transcripts-listen-1.6514561 | |||
| S17: "The Kill List" E2: A Death in Sweden | 22 Dec 2022 | 00:43:03 | |
Months before Karima’s death, another prominent Baloch dissident is found drowned in a river in Sweden. Sajid Hussain had also fled Pakistan to start a new life in safety. His death bears a striking resemblance to Karima’s. Could the two be connected?
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-kill-list-transcripts-listen-1.6514561 | |||
| S17: "The Kill List" E3: The Dissident Club | 22 Dec 2022 | 00:47:02 | |
Mary meets those who have been told they are on a kill list. Exiles from Pakistan have sought safety through the Western world. But do they remain in danger, no matter how far they flee?
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-kill-list-transcripts-listen-1.6514561 | |||
| S17: "The Kill List" E4: ‘I am not a terrorist’ | 22 Dec 2022 | 00:58:52 | |
We learn about Karima’s final days from those closest to her, including a man who’s finally ready to speak. After escaping death in Pakistan, what evidence is there that Karima may have taken her own life?
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-kill-list-transcripts-listen-1.6514561 | |||
| S17: "The Kill List" E5: Living Ghosts | 22 Dec 2022 | 01:03:49 | |
We follow Karima’s dramatic return to Balochistan — where even in death, she’s considered a threat. And hear from those in her homeland still willing to risk their lives by speaking out.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-kill-list-transcripts-listen-1.6514561 | |||
| S17: "The Kill List" E6: The Pier | 22 Dec 2022 | 01:05:23 | |
New documents, witnesses and a renowned forensic scientist all lead to the same, unsettling conclusion about what really happened to Karima.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-kill-list-transcripts-listen-1.6514561 | |||
| S27 E6: The Forgotten Children | "Bloodlines" | 19 Jul 2024 | 00:31:53 | |
Poonam makes the perilous journey to the last known location of baby Salmaan, a guesthouse near where IS made its last stand. But IS sleeper cells still lurk in the desert and Poonam only has one hour on the ground – can she find what she needs in time? | |||
| Introducing: Kuper Island | 02 Aug 2022 | 00:02:54 | |
Long after the Kuper Island Residential School was torn down, the survivors are still haunted by what happened there. Investigative reporter Duncan McCue exposes buried police investigations, confronts perpetrators of abuse and witnesses a community trying to rebuild — literally on top of the old school’s ruins and the unmarked graves of Indigenous children. | |||
| S16: “Kuper Island” E1: A School They Called Alcatraz | 02 Aug 2022 | 00:31:53 | |
Duncan McCue travels to Penelakut, an island off the coast of B.C., and the site of the Kuper Island Residential School. The community has torn down the reviled building, but the dark memories of what happened at the nearly-century old institution linger. Survivors James and Tony Charlie give a tour of their old school grounds, and we look into the mystery of what happened to one boy, Richard Thomas, who did not make it out alive.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/kuper-island-transcripts-listen-1.6622551 | |||
| S16: “Kuper Island” E2: Nights on the Boys’ Side | 02 Aug 2022 | 00:39:19 | |
What was it like to be a student at one of the most notorious residential schools in Canada? Survivors James and Tony Charlie share their own account of recurring sexual abuse at the hands of their teachers, starting with a fateful trip to Montreal's Expo '67. Their stories speak to how abuse rotted all facets of school life — and how at Kuper Island, no child was spared.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/kuper-island-transcripts-listen-1.6622551 | |||
| S16: “Kuper Island” E3: Sink or Swim | 02 Aug 2022 | 00:35:57 | |
Survivor Belvie Brebber tells us about her five years at Kuper Island Residential School, a time filled with fear, cruelty and sexual violence. Belvie makes it out alive, but her younger brother Richard Thomas does not. She describes a terrible phone call that shattered her family forever, and why she never believed the school's story that her beloved brother died by suicide.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/kuper-island-transcripts-listen-1.6622551 | |||
| S16: “Kuper Island” E4: What happened to Richard? | 02 Aug 2022 | 00:44:17 | |
Richard Thomas was smart, kind and well-loved. He was having no problems in school and he wanted to go further in education. Then inexplicably, days before his graduation, he’s found dead in the Kuper Island school gym. His death was ruled a suicide — with no further questions as to why. We piece together a portrait of the teenager through his own writings, and find an old coroner’s report that raises more questions than answers about how Thomas died.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/kuper-island-transcripts-listen-1.6622551 | |||
| S16: “Kuper Island” E5: Feeding the Dead | 02 Aug 2022 | 00:36:48 | |
An archaeologist uses the stories of survivors and a ground-penetrating radar machine to pinpoint where children who died at the Kuper Island school were buried, sometimes in places where no one ever wanted them to be found. And we explore how the Hul'qumi'num people honour their ancestral dead, and why this work is important when it comes to unsettled spirits and unmarked graves.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/kuper-island-transcripts-listen-1.6622551 | |||
| S16: “Kuper Island” E6: It Didn't Feel Like Justice | 02 Aug 2022 | 00:36:48 | |
We explore what really happened during a 1990s RCMP task force investigation triggered by the high number of allegations of sexual abuses at the Kuper Island Residential School, and track down a former staff member who witnessed the horrors firsthand. We learn one of the abusers at the school, Brother Glenn Doughty, is still alive. We try to reach him and learn troubling information about his whereabouts.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/kuper-island-transcripts-listen-1.6622551 | |||
| S16: “Kuper Island” E7: Hurt People Hurt People | 02 Aug 2022 | 00:45:53 | |
The children who attended Kuper Island Residential School faced a terrible aftermath trying to process what happened. The abuse they suffered there often coloured their relationships with family and community — with devastating results. Meanwhile, the team learns one of the perpetrators from the school spent his later years being taken care of in relative comfort — all paid for by the Oblates. They demand to know why.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/kuper-island-transcripts-listen-1.6622551 | |||
| S16: “Kuper Island” E8: Every Child Matters | 02 Aug 2022 | 00:52:01 | |
The team tracks down the last person to ever see Richard Thomas alive at Kuper Island Residential School. Donnie Sampson was just 10 years old at the time and has disturbing memories of the day — that include a familiar and problematic name from the past. Host Duncan McCue takes the results of the investigation back to Richard’s sister Belvie who must decide what to do next. In Penelakut, the community rallies around their children — the new generation, the adult survivors still healing, and all the ones who never came home.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/kuper-island-transcripts-listen-1.6622551 | |||
| S15: "The Village 3" E7: Atonement | 19 Jul 2022 | 00:33:06 | |
Years of sustained pressure finally pay off as the policing culture shifts to include activists’ input into their investigations.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-village-the-montreal-murders-transcripts-listen-1.6479960 | |||
| S27 E7: No Tears Left | "Bloodlines" | 18 Jul 2024 | 00:34:33 | |
Poonam travels to Canada for an unexpected meeting and returns to London where she shares what she has discovered with Ash. | |||
| S15: "The Village 3" E6: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell | 12 Jul 2022 | 00:35:24 | |
When one of its priests is found murdered in Montreal, the Anglican Church has to publicly reckon with its sins.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-village-the-montreal-murders-transcripts-listen-1.6479960 | |||
| S15: "The Village 3" E5: Out With Them All | 05 Jul 2022 | 00:42:52 | |
Faced with a deadly disease, surrounded by death, AIDS activist Roger Leclerc resorts to controversial tactics to confront discrimination and violence against gays and lesbians.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-village-the-montreal-murders-transcripts-listen-1.6479960 | |||
| S15: "The Village 3" E4: A Murder is a Murder is a Murder | 28 Jun 2022 | 00:27:23 | |
A married man is murdered while on a business trip in Montreal. The case highlights the challenges of investigating the murders. Delayed investigations and unsolved cases are a dear price to pay when a serial killer may be on the loose.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-village-the-montreal-murders-transcripts-listen-1.6479960 | |||
| S15: "The Village 3" E3: Chicken Little | 21 Jun 2022 | 00:27:37 | |
Montreal, 1991 – Fearing a serial killer, activists decide to take matters into their own hands.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-village-the-montreal-murders-transcripts-listen-1.6479960 | |||
| S15: "The Village 3" E2: Sex Garage | 14 Jun 2022 | 00:38:01 | |
Scores of police remove their badges and slip on rubber gloves before beating and arresting queer partygoers in downtown Montreal. The violence escalates in the coming days, and many more are beaten and jailed. A stronger front emerges.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-village-the-montreal-murders-transcripts-listen-1.6479960 | |||
| S15: "The Village 3" E1: La Vie en Rose | 07 Jun 2022 | 00:44:51 | |
Joe Rose, a queer activist living with AIDS, is murdered in cold blood on a city bus. So public, so brutal – the city is shocked. The killing becomes a catalyst for ACT UP’s takeover of the 1989 Montreal AIDS conference.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-village-the-montreal-murders-transcripts-listen-1.6479960 | |||
| Introducing: The Village: The Montreal Murders (Trailer) | 31 May 2022 | 00:02:42 | |
A sneak peek into season three. Montreal in the 90s was a great time, but it had a dark side. For many men, being in – or out – of the closet during the AIDS epidemic was the difference between life and death. Unsolved murders stack up. And in the absence of police protection, a community of activists are forced to take matters into their own hands. | |||
| S15: "The Village 3" E0: Return to The Village | 31 May 2022 | 00:03:43 | |
Justin hands over the season to Francis at Parc de L’Espoir, the memorial to people who died from HIV/AIDS in Montreal’s gay village. We’re going back 30 years. The world was a different place. What we learned about how to live through a pandemic and how to solve a murder. | |||
| Uncover Introduces: Someone Knows Something: The Abortion Wars | 16 May 2022 | 00:33:24 | |
Host David Ridgen joins victims' family members as they investigate cold cases, tracking down leads, speaking to suspects and searching for answers. In Season 7 of Someone Knows Something, Ridgen and investigative journalist Amanda Robb dig into the 1998 murder of her uncle, a New York doctor killed for performing abortions. They uncover a network of anti-abortion movements linked to violence in North America and Europe. Twenty years later, with debates about reproductive rights heating up in the U.S., could more violence be on the horizon? More episodes are available at hyperurl.co/sks | |||
| S9 "Evil By Design" E9: Nothing Sticks | 10 Mar 2022 | 00:40:02 | |
New criminal charges have been laid against Peter Nygard. New survivors have come forward. And much older allegations have surfaced. But for accusers in Nygard’s hometown — some who were among the most vulnerable in society — justice seems as far away as ever. | |||
| S14: "Boys Like Me" E1: A Moment of Silence | 07 Jan 2022 | 00:36:15 | |
Hours after a deadly van attack in Toronto, the media starts hunting for clues. One of those clues leads to a surprise phone call and a shocking discovery.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/boys-like-me-transcripts-listen-1.6732152 | |||
| S14: "Boys Like Me" E2: A Supreme Gentleman | 06 Jan 2022 | 00:34:32 | |
Evan and Alek are in the same special-needs program in high school, where they’re both bullied and ostracized. But while Evan tries to break out of his shell, Alek retreats further into himself and finds solace in some of the most disturbing corners of the internet.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/boys-like-me-transcripts-listen-1.6732152 | |||
| S14: "Boys Like Me" E3: Boys Will Be Boys | 05 Jan 2022 | 00:39:20 | |
Alek frequented incel sites for years, lurking in forums that celebrated or even encouraged the kind of attack he’d go on to commit. What draws young men into this toxic world? Ellen connects with a prominent incel who takes her down the rabbit hole.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/boys-like-me-transcripts-listen-1.6732152 | |||
| S14: "Boys Like Me" E4: A Soldier for the Cause | 04 Jan 2022 | 00:37:36 | |
Evan shares a troubling period from his past and reflects on the different paths he and Alek took. What pushes someone to kill in the name of an ideology? Ellen speaks to a former Jihadi recruiter about the murky path from radicalization to terrorism.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/boys-like-me-transcripts-listen-1.6732152 | |||
| S14: "Boys Like Me" E5: Welcome to the Manosphere | 03 Jan 2022 | 00:44:56 | |
Incels are only part of the threat. Ellen speaks with a woman who spent years undercover among a vast network of online communities — among them so-called mens’ rights activists and pickup artists — all united in their desire for total male supremacy. They orchestrate harassment campaigns, glorify violence against women and actively recruit vulnerable young men. Few people are talking about it. And no one knows how to stop it.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/boys-like-me-transcripts-listen-1.6732152 | |||
| S13: "White Hot Hate" E1: 'Save Your Race, Join The Base' | 31 Dec 2021 | 00:36:06 | |
When recruitment posters for a white supremacist network start appearing around town, Winnipeg Free Press journalist Ryan Thorpe decides to go undercover and infiltrate the group.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/white-hot-hate-transcripts-listen-1.6226840 | |||
| S13: "White Hot Hate" E2: 'Best of Both Worlds' | 30 Dec 2021 | 00:36:52 | |
A tipster reveals that Patrik — who talked about derailing trains and setting off explosives — was a member of the Army Reserve. Does the military have a problem with neo-Nazis in its ranks?
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/white-hot-hate-transcripts-listen-1.6226840 | |||
| S13: "White Hot Hate" E3: Hate Camps | 29 Dec 2021 | 00:35:10 | |
Outed as a member of The Base, Patrik Mathews disappears. His abandoned truck is discovered near the Canada-U.S. border. He could be heading to a training camp. But what exactly are they training for?
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/white-hot-hate-transcripts-listen-1.6226840 | |||
| S13: "White Hot Hate" E4: 'It only takes a few' | 28 Dec 2021 | 00:28:38 | |
Some members of The Base are planning deadly attacks that they hope will spark a race war. Will they be stopped, before it's too late?
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/white-hot-hate-transcripts-listen-1.6226840 | |||
| S13: "White Hot Hate" E5: The ‘Network Administrator’ | 27 Dec 2021 | 00:48:11 | |
We speak with ‘Roman Wolf,’ the founder of The Base. Who is he really? Why did he start a white supremacist network? And with half a dozen members behind bars, what comes next?
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/white-hot-hate-transcripts-listen-1.6226840 | |||
| S27 Trailer: Bloodlines | 03 Jun 2024 | 00:03:39 | |
Two-year-old Salmaan disappears in the chaos of the final days of the war against ISIS. After the war against the Islamic State was won, what became of the children of its fighters? There are thousands of kids like Salmaan, with roots in Canada, the U.K., the U.S. and beyond — many of whom are still trapped without a way back home. Is it a race against time to rescue them? | |||
| S13: "White Hot Hate" E6: 'Give them what they deserve' | 26 Dec 2021 | 00:39:04 | |
Patrik Mathews could be facing up to 25 years in prison for U.S. firearm offences. His and others’ arrests may have destroyed the appeal of accelerationist groups like The Base — but where is the movement heading now?
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/white-hot-hate-transcripts-listen-1.6226840 | |||
| S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E1: The Body | 13 Dec 2021 | 00:37:00 | |
Upon checking into a luxury resort in India, Gerald Cotten complains to staff he’s feeling ill. He and his wife are taken to a hospital and within 24 hours the young CEO is declared dead. A month passes before word gets out to customers that QuadrigaCX’s CEO is gone — along with their money.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/a-death-in-cryptoland-transcripts-listen-1.6035764 | |||
| S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E2: Hunting Ghosts | 12 Dec 2021 | 00:38:53 | |
QuadrigaCX collapses and there’s widespread panic. An online sleuth searches for answers through a tangle of websites, hidden identities and a trail of emails. He uncovers a pattern of deception that predates his exchange, linking Gerry to a shadowy underworld of fraudsters.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/a-death-in-cryptoland-transcripts-listen-1.6035764 | |||
| S12: "A Death in Cryptoland" E3: Cracks in the Empire | 11 Dec 2021 | 00:33:50 | |
Gerald Cotten and his business partner, Michael Patryn, launch QuadrigaCX on Boxing Day, 2013. There’s hype in the budding Bitcoin community and the small exchange seems to have a meteoric rise. But cracks begin to appear, problems with the banks, a software bug, and delays in paying back customers. Meanwhile, online rumours of a criminal past dog Michael Patryn.
For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/a-death-in-cryptoland-transcripts-listen-1.6035764 | |||