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Thunder Bay

Canadaland

Society & Culture

True Crime

Frequency: 1 episode/243d. Total Eps: 13

Thunder Bay has been named an Apple Podcasts Series Essential.

When Indigenous teens start turning up dead under suspicious circumstances, host Ryan McMahon sets out to uncover the truth. What he finds is a city steeped in racism, corruption and neglect — a city with the highest homicide and hate crime rates in the country.

Why does it all happen here?

Thunder Bay originally ran in the fall of 2018, followed by Return to Thunder Bay (2020) and Thunder Bay: Post-Mortem (2023).

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15/10/2026
#32
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15/10/2026
#51
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14/10/2026
#49
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14/10/2026
#58
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13/10/2026
#44
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13/10/2026
#87
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12/10/2026
#57
🇨🇦 Canada - Documentary
11/10/2026
#54
🇨🇦 Canada - Documentary
10/10/2026
#57
🇨🇦 Canada - Documentary
09/10/2026
#71

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/tbay-broken-trust-reinvestigations-final-report-1.6351408
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-coroners-looking-to-unionize-1.6875791
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Jesse Brown is Fired!

Episode 1

Thursday, October 8, 2026 • Duration 05:49

It's true. Jesse Brown has fired himself as a host of Canadaland podcasts.

So who will Canadaland's new hosts be?

Stay tuned and support the next chapter of Canadaland here: canadaland.com/join

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Post-Mortem, Part 2

Season 2 · Episode 2

Monday, November 20, 2023 • Duration 36:43

Ryan McMahon and Jon Thompson team up with Cherise Seucharan for the conclusion to Post Mortem, a two-episode dive into the connection between the police, the coroners, and the canary in a coal mine for death investigations across the province.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Jon Thompson (Reporter), Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Ryan McMahon (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Further reading:

Reinvestigation into nine Indigenous deaths to focus on ‘finding the truth’ — TBNewswatch, October 16, 2019
Lawyer says families 'ignored' as Broken Trust final report on death reinvestigations expected within weeks — CBC News, Feb 15, 2022
Reports on racism and a reckoning for Thunder Bay — TVO Today, Jan 17, 2019
2 police officers step on handcuffed man's back as doctor watches at First Nation nursing station — CBC News, Jul 10, 2017
Thunder Bay Police Board chair apologizes to families after report urges more death reinvestigations — CBC News, March 16, 2022
Thunder Bay TV series, Crave

Additional music by Audio Network

Sponsors: Oxio, Squarespace, Better Help

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Post-Mortem, Part 1

Season 2 · Episode 1

Monday, November 13, 2023 • Duration 39:49

For over five years, Canadaland has been investigating Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specifically, we have been trying to figure out why there were so many unanswered questions around the deaths of Indigenous people in this one Ontario town.

We have looked at the cops. The schools. The courts. The government. The people in the town itself. But we never looked at the coroners and the forensic pathologists who are a central part of death investigations. And once we started to do so, freedom of information requests and leaked reports pointed to even greater problems with how deaths are investigated, that could span the entire province.

And so we went back to Thunder Bay.

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Jon Thompson (Reporter), Ryan McMahon (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Further reading:

Lawyer says families 'ignored' as Broken Trust final report on death reinvestigations expected within weeks, CBC News, Feb 15, 2022
Reports on racism and a reckoning for Thunder Bay, TVO Today, Jan 17, 2019
Ontario coroners looking to unionize over working conditions, upcoming reforms, CBC News, June 14, 2023
Horwath calls for review of Hamilton forensic pathology unit closure, CBC News, August 23, 2019
'Disappointing' response so far to 7 youth inquest recommendations, says Aboriginal Legal Services, CBC News, August 23, 2017

Criminally Responsible

Season 2 · Episode 3

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 • Duration 43:18

The verdict arrives in the trial that everyone’s talking about. Can there be justice? As Thunder Bay grapples with the truth about itself, people are still dying. Kids are still dying.

So where do we go from here?

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This episode is brought to you by HelloFresh.

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It Happens Because You're Indigenous

Season 2 · Episode 2

Monday, November 30, 2020 • Duration 41:32

When a system is broken, you can work outside of it to create something new, or you can try to change it from within. But what happens when you need the system?

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This episode is brought to you by Missing From the Village and HelloFresh.

Additional music by AudioNetwork.

CORRECTION: An earlier edit of this episode presented an incomplete criticism of the editorial focus of CBC Thunder Bay. Apologies to Michael Dick and his team for this oversight.

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A Post-Truth Town

Season 2 · Episode 1

Monday, November 16, 2020 • Duration 46:01

It’s infamous as the homicide and hate crime capital of Canada. And now, Thunder Bay has been officially diagnosed as racist.

But so what? Does knowing this mean that anything will change?

Welcome to Canada's first post-truth town.

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Introducing: Return to Thunder Bay

Season 2

Sunday, October 18, 2020 • Duration 01:55

New stories from Thunder Bay.

Original artwork by Blake Angeconeb and Michah Dowbak.

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Burners

Season 1 · Episode 5

Sunday, November 25, 2018 • Duration 28:22

What if Thunder Bay isn't broken?

What if it's working just as it's supposed to?

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The Ruthless Game

Season 1 · Episode 4

Monday, November 12, 2018 • Duration 46:25

Agnew Johnston was a lawyer who represented the state against criminals. But he was a criminal himself, paying underage girls for sex. His defence? Everybody in Thunder Bay is doing it, so why are you picking on me? The story of a case that implicated Thunder Bay's elite.

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Deathly Low Priority

Season 1 · Episode 3

Sunday, October 28, 2018 • Duration 39:29

Nine teenagers died. There is evidence of foul play. There are suspects. There are motives. There have even been confessions. But nobody has ever been charged. In a town with no consequences, it will happen again.

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