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The National From Anita Hill to Christine Blasey Ford: Has anything changed?
Twenty-seven years after Anita Hill testified against Judge Clarence Thomas, Christine Blasey Ford did the same against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, but has anything changed for women in that time?
- 2018
- 00:08:18
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- Added on: 11/06/2018
The National Social media, Saudi Arabia and spyware
An activist from Saudi Arabia sought refuge in Canada after making critical comments on social media. Omar Abdulaziz thought he was safe until he received a text message that put spyware on his cellphone.
- 2018
- 00:03:25
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/06/2018
The National Canada should apologize for forced adoptions: Senate report
Between 1945 and 1971, an estimated 350,000 Canadian women were forced to give up their babies for adoption because they weren't married.
- 2018
- 00:03:56
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- Added on: 09/12/2018
The National Justin Trudeau promises Indigenous people more rights
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised Indigenous people more rights in Canada, as part of a rethinking of how the federal government approaches the subject. CBC reporter Catherine Cullen looks at how this approach might work on the ground, and Rosemary Barton speaks with Dene leader Georges Erasmus, a former co-chair of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP).
- 2018
- 00:05:54
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/12/2018
CBC Short Docs Home No More
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a Quebec City mosque, three Muslim women contemplate leaving the place they call home. Home No More explores what it’s like living as a Muslim woman in Quebec City, one year after one of Canada’s worst terrorist attacks — the deadly shooting at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec (CCIQ) on January ...
- 2018
- 00:19:15
- 13-14
- Added on: 08/14/2018
CBC Short Docs Run as One: The Journey of the Front Runners
In 1967, Winnipeg hosted the fifth Pan American Games. 10 young Indigenous athletes from First Nations across Manitoba were selected to run the Pan Am torch from Minneapolis to Winnipeg — an 800 km, once-in-a-lifetime journey. But just before the athletes arrived at the opening ceremonies, the torch was taken from them and handed to a non-Indigenous athlete, who carried ...
- 2018
- 00:19:12
- 9-12
- Added on: 08/13/2018
The National How #MeToo is changing the way museums do exhibits
The #MeToo movement is also changing the way museums handle artists' exhibits, specifically those who have been accused of abuse. The National takes you to the Royal Ontario Museum, where that change will be on display starting July 21, 2018.
- 2018
- 00:03:37
- 13-14
- Added on: 08/03/2018
Our Vancouver Street Thug Barbers: Free cuts and compassion
Three men who call themselves the Street Thug Barbers talk about their project to cut hair for free for people who really need it.
- 2016
- 00:08:05
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- Added on: 07/17/2018
The National Sixties Scoop survivors split on proposed $875-million settlement
Advocates say the deal can give closure to the affected families, but critics say the amounts for survivors are too small, there were no national hearings, and the deal should have included Métis survivors, not just First Nations.
- 2018
- 00:03:00
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/11/2018
The National How Montreal police and the city's homeless are building a better relationship
It's part of an initiative started after a homeless man was killed by police last year. The goal is to ensure it never happens again.
- 2018
- 00:06:46
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- Added on: 07/11/2018
CBC Docs POV Angry Inuk
A new generation of Inuit, armed with social media and their own sense of humour and justice, challenge anti-sealing groups. They are pushing for a sustainable way to take part in the global economy, but in opposition stands an army of well-funded activists and well-meaning celebrities. Filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and her cameras travel through the Canadian Arctic, giving voice to the ...
- 2016
- 00:45:02
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- Added on: 07/04/2018
CBC Docs POV Skinhead
Brad was a prime target for neo-Nazi recruiters — a white 18-year-old punk, in and out of trouble with the law, a street brawler already in his fourth high school, a kid without direction. Lured by the promise of comradeship in a gang of “like-minded” men, Brad found what he wanted most: belonging. He spent 13 years in “the movement,” ...
- 2017
- 00:44:09
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/27/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 10: Cleo's letters
Even though it was supposed to have been destroyed in 1983, the police file documenting the investigation into Cleo's death still exists and it contains more detail than Christine ever imagined learning about the last days, hours and even minutes of Cleo's short life.
- 2018
- 00:54:57
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 9: Reunion
Christine travels to Pennsylvania for an emotional reunion with her brother, Johnny, who she hasn't seen since she was a baby. Determined to get more answers about the days and weeks leading up to her sister's death, Christine finally gets a copy of Cleo's death certificate. That and other documents begin to shed light on the truth she's been seeking ...
- 2018
- 00:53:26
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 8: Salesperson of the year
Digging through archives in Saskatchewan, Connie makes a shocking discovery. As she investigates the controversial Adopt Indian Métis program which Cleo and her siblings were a part of, the man who started the program agrees to speak with her about its controversial origins and legacy.
- 2018
- 00:36:00
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 7: Lillian
Connie's chance meeting with the father who Cleo never knew is followed by new revelations about the Semaganis children's biological mother, Lillian. A picture begins to emerge about why her children were taken, and when she joined the fight to stop the adoption of more Indigenous children into white homes.
- 2018
- 00:31:44
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 6: Little Pine
A brief encounter with someone who knew Cleo perhaps better than anyone else just before her death reveals crucial details. Connecting new facts about her life leads the investigation to a world far from where Cleo died, back to Little Pine First Nation.
- 2018
- 00:49:13
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 5: Afraid of the dark
As Connie shares some shocking news with Cleo's siblings, the truth about what happened to her remains just out of reach. Police may have answers but can't share them yet. It's time to visit the one person who's bound to know more.
- 2018
- 00:29:14
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 4: The funeral home
The search for Cleo leads Connie to investigate a headstone belonging to a 13-year old girl who died in 1978. The cemetery is more than 20 hours away from Arkansas, where Cleo's family has long believed she was killed.
- 2018
- 00:40:30
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 3: A little lie
Cleo's older brother Johnny is the only sibling who really remembers her, the way they were taken from their mother, and the promise he made Cleo on the last day he saw her alive. He vowed to find her and still longs to fulfill that pledge. A longtime resident of Pennsylvania since his own adoption decades ago, Connie visits him ...
- 2018
- 00:53:39
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 2: Eyes that haunted me
As new information emerges about where she was sent after she and her siblings were separated, Connie meets Cleo's other sister, April, and speaks with her parents about adopting Indigenous children during the Sixties Scoop. Unbeknownst to April all of these years, her own adoption records actually contain a key detail in the search for Cleo.
- 2018
- 00:40:38
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/15/2018
Missing & Murdered Finding Cleo, Episode 1: Stolen. Missing. Murdered.
Christine writes a gripping plea for help finding her eldest sister, Cleo. CBC journalist Connie Walker pays her a visit and finds the only proof of Cleo's existence is a single, faded, undated school photo. As they begin to piece her family's story together, Christine gets a phone call she's been waiting years for. In it, she receives a cryptic ...
- 2018
- 00:33:44
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/14/2018
The National An Internet free from corporate greed
NYCMesh is a group dedicated to establishing an Internet free from corporate dominance in New York, but can they realistically stand up to the big Internet service providers? Its members set up antennas on rooftops around the city to create a spider web of connections. CBC News got a look at how the underground network is building its own Internet.
- 2018
- 00:06:27
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/12/2018
The National Canadian tech used in repressive countries for censorship
Canadian company Netsweeper is under fire for its technology that can help repressive countries around the world censor the Internet for millions of users. The technology was born as a tool to help schools and libraries protect vulnerable users — now it's being sold and implemented at the network level in countries with dubious human rights records.
- 2018
- 00:11:38
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- Added on: 06/12/2018
CBC News The First Gay March
They called it "Gay Day." 100 protesters gathered in Ottawa in August 1971 for the first large-scale public protest for gay rights in Canada. Speakers addressed the fact that amendments to the criminal code in 1969 legalized their sexual relations but did little to alleviate the oppression of the gay community in everyday life. This protest came on the heels ...
- 1971
- 00:01:47
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- Added on: 05/29/2018
