The Fifth Estate - Season 50

1. Dawson Creek: We Want Our Town Back Season

Aired: 10/11/2024

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

2. Road to Ruin

Aired: 10/18/2024

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

Aired: 10/25/2024

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

Aired: 11/1/2024

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

5. Conspiracy in Coutts

Aired: 11/15/2024

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

6. Cracked: Crimes Behind Encryption

Aired: 11/22/2024

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

Aired: 11/29/2024

9. Pet Care Inc.

Aired: 1/24/2025

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

10. The Shadow War on Libraries

Aired: 2/7/2025

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

Aired: 2/14/2025

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

Aired: 2/28/2025

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

Aired: 3/7/2025

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

14. A Sister's Promise

Aired: 3/14/2025

“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

Aired: 3/21/2025

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.