The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate: Season 50

Air Date

October 11, 2024

Episodes

14 episodes

The Fifth Estate

Season 50

Overview

THE FIFTH ESTATE brings audiences Canada's top investigative stories. From across the country and around the world, Fifth Estate journalists dig deeper to get to the stories that matter

Episodes

1. Dawson Creek: We Want Our Town Back Season

October 11, 2024

A viewer tip leads to Dawson Creek, B.C., where residents feel ignored during a crime wave.

2. Road to Ruin

October 18, 2024

Canadian animation pioneer Daniel Langlois was known for films like the Matrix and Jurassic Park. When the millionaire and his partner were killed in Dominica last December, it exposed a web that extends into politics and corruption.

3. Stronach: Power and Silence

October 25, 2024

Billionaire Frank Stronach stands charged with 18 counts of sex crimes; the Fifth Estate has found further claims from the last several years Mark Kelley takes the allegations directly to Stronach.

4. The Election and the War

November 1, 2024

Donors and political action committees could use the war in Gaza to influence the U.S. election

5. Conspiracy in Coutts

November 15, 2024

A judge has ruled that two protesters involved in convoy blockade in Coutts Alta, where willing

6. Cracked: Crimes Behind Encryption

November 22, 2024

Vancouver’s Sky ECC promised confidentiality to customers with its encrypted cellphones, which were a hit with criminals but also the target of an international police sting. The investigation that brought thousands of criminals, and Sky, down.

7. Episode 7

November 29, 2024
43 min

9. Pet Care Inc.

January 24, 2025

The cost of owning a pet has skyrocketed as big business moves into vet care.

10. The Shadow War on Libraries

February 7, 2025

Now more and more libraries find themselves on the front lines of a culture war, with battles over books, bans and the freedom to read. The attacks on libraries started in the U.S. and, like a slow-burning brushfire, they've been moving north, the flames fanned by pressure groups who feel libraries should not have books about sex education, gender identity or stories

11. Inside Job: The airport gold heist

February 14, 2025

It was a sensational heist — $20 million in gold stolen from Canada’s busiest airport. On a chase that spans the globe — from India to Dubai to rural Pennsylvania, we make surprising discoveries about the gold, guns and the suspects still at large.

12. The second term project 2025

February 28, 2025

Donald Trump's tariff war has people on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border in a panic. From behind the scenes of inauguration day to the oil fields of Alberta — is there a plan behind the chaos? Project 2025 provides the blueprint.

13. Tax Hack: Identity Theft

March 7, 2025

“Tens of thousands of taxpayer accounts hacked as CRA repeatedly paid out millions in bogus refunds”

14. A Sister's Promise

March 14, 2025

“A Sister’s Promise,” documents Meggie’s journey as she hits the streets of east London searching for tips in her sister’s case. We’re there as the 62-year-old woman tracks down people of interest and grills them about what they know about Sonya’s death.

15. Trapped: The Online Terror Network

March 21, 2025

This week is The Fifth Estate’s second investigation into 764, a satanic neo-Nazi network targeting vulnerable kids online and forcing them to harm their pets, themselves and others — and even take their own lives.