The Fifth Estate - Season 51

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The Denial Machine

1 - The Denial Machine

Air Date: October 10, 2025

A data breach at B.C.'s Interior Health involving tens of thousands of employees' most sensitive information is for sale on the dark web; health-care workers' identities are repeatedly stolen while the agency denies the breach ever happened.

Funding the occupation

2 - Funding the occupation

Air Date: October 17, 2025

We're in the occupied West Bank on the trail of millions in Canadian tax deductible charitable donations. We reveal funds are supporting Israeli settlements deemed illegal under international law.

Dying to Recover.

3 - Dying to Recover.

Air Date: October 24, 2025

Investigation into for-profit, privately owned residential substance use treatment facilities across Canada that, according to the investigation, operate with little government regulation or oversight, which critics say puts the lives of patients at risk.

Dawson Creek: Behind the Fear

4 - Dawson Creek: Behind the Fear

Air Date: October 31, 2025

We return to small-town Dawson Creek, B.C., where residents feel besieged by violence and murder. The RCMP failed to meet the deadline it set for answers, so we return to investigate yet more killings and reveal what is behind this crime wave.

The War on Safe Drugs

5 - The War on Safe Drugs

Air Date: November 14, 2025

Canada’s opioid crisis has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, costing the health and justice systems billions. Many health providers say there were solutions that could have helped. We reveal how politics got in the way.

Episode 6

6 - Episode 6

Air Date: November 21, 2025

Episode 7

7 - Episode 7

Air Date: November 28, 2025