News in Review - October 2000 Domestic Violence: Deadly Rage
Recently, a number of disturbing and high profile incidents of domestic violence have shocked Canadians and have been prominently covered by media. These tragic events have as a result brought the often neglected issue of domestic violence to the forefront. In Canadian schools today we have numerous programs designed to raise awareness of and prevent violence in schools and to ...
- 2000
- 00:11:40
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- Added on: 10/15/2000
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News in Review - September 1990 Donald Marshall
The Donald Marshall case is as straightforward as it is tragic. Marshall is a Mi’kmaq man who spent 11 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. The subsequent inquiry showed evidence that discrimination and incorrect procedures led to this miscarriage of justice. The justice and police systems not only failed him, they indicted, tried, convicted and, ultimately, ...
- 1990
- 00:10:07
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/25/2014
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The National Driving high: Preventing impaired driving a focus for authorities
A Statistics Canada report found one in seven pot users surveyed said they had driven within two hours of using pot.
- 2018
- 00:02:54
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/10/2018
Venture E-Mail Alert
They're gone but not forgotten. Corporate e-mails are becoming a primary tool in high-profile court cases, as lawyers dig through hard drives in search of evidence. Now business people are discovering, much to their alarm, that a single damning e-mail can expose their companies to big financial risks.
- 2002
- 00:09:17
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The Fifth Estate Earl Jones: In Trust
Disgraced Montreal financial advisor Earl Jones orchestrated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded his investors of $50 million over two decades. The Fifth Estate gained exclusive access to the Jones bankruptcy proceedings led by forensic accountant Gilles Robillard, who combed through boxes of cheques, ATM and credit card statements dating back to 1987. Robillard takes reporter Hana Gartner through the money ...
- 2010
- 00:42:49
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- Added on: 06/14/2013
Power & Politics Electoral Reform Explained
Having promised that the 2015 federal election will be the last under the first-past-the-post system, Justin Trudeau and the Liberals face the daunting task of determining the best option for electoral reform. Dave Meslin from Unlocked Democracy gives a visual demonstration of several alternatives, including the run-off election (or ranked ballot), single transferable vote (STV) and mixed-member proportional representation (MMP).
- 2015
- 00:08:59
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/07/2016
News in Review - January 2020 Exposing Hate: Are Hate Crimes on the Rise in Canada?
A CBC News investigation discovered that there were nearly 1,800 hate crimes reported to Canadian police last year. But that number likely doesn’t tell the whole story. Inaccurate reporting and different classifications make a true calculation nearly impossible. Nonetheless, hate seems to be growing across this country. But no place more so than Hamilton, Ontario, which has the infamous title ...
- 2020
- 00:12:32
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/21/2020
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CBC News: Disclosure Eyewitness: Unreliable Evidence
It's one of the justice system's little secrets. Take a selective and sometimes deceptive memory, add flawed police procedures, and witnesses will identify the wrong person — but no one knows how often. Not convinced? Well then, you be the eyewitness. This program starts with a staged shooting — an experiment to test the weakness of eyewitness testimony conducted by ...
- 2003
- 00:22:34
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/14/2013
The Fifth Estate Failing Jeffrey
Jeffrey Baldwin was found dead in his grandmother’s east Toronto house in 2002. Officially, he died of pneumonia, but the underlying cause was severe, prolonged malnutrition. Four months later, his grandparents were arrested and ultimately convicted of second-degree murder. Grandparents Elva Bottineau and Norman Kidman had a history of child abuse, and Jeffrey was not the first child to die ...
- 2006
- 00:41:21
- 15-17
- Added on: 06/14/2013
BBC Documentaries Faith and Gay Fear
Across the world, there is a growing move to halt the advance of gay rights by direct persecution and support for anti-homosexual laws. From the anti-gay agenda spreading across Europe from Russia to the extreme homophobia in Africa sponsored by western evangelists and right-wing Christians in Slovakia and Uganda, this film reveals that far from the hatred originating from rogue ...
- 2015
- 00:46:59
- 13-14
- Added on: 03/12/2020
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