Thunder Bay host Ryan McMahon pops in to tell you about a new podcast you’re going to want to know about – launching right here on May 14th. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Labour has undergone a seismic shift over the past decade.  The rise of gig work and temp agencies have made employment more precarious than ever. In the interest of profits, companies are turning more and more towards temporary foreign workers and international students for minimum wage jobs. And even for those with seemingly secure employment, wages and benefits continue to be squeezed.  One thing seems clear: workers are getting screwed.  This season of COMMONS will dig into the...

Ryan McMahon and Jon Thompson team up with Cherise Seucharan for the conclusion to Post Mortem, a two-episode dive into the connection between the police, the coroners, and the canary in a coal mine for death investigations across the province. Host: Jesse Brown  Credits: Jon Thompson (Reporter), Cherise Seucharan (Reporter), Ryan McMahon (Reporter), Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Annette Ejiofor (Managing Editor), Karyn Pugliese...

For over five years, Canadaland has been investigating Thunder Bay, Ontario. Specifically, we have been trying to figure out why there were so many unanswered questions around the deaths of Indigenous people in this one Ontario town. We have looked at the cops. The schools. The courts. The  government. The people in the town itself. But we never looked at the coroners and the forensic pathologists who are a central part of death investigations. And once we started to do so, freedom of...

Support us now! Click here: canadaland.com/join The first episode of Canadaland was published ten years ago today. If we were to announce this is the last episode of Canadaland, no one would be surprised. Journalism in Canada is in a fight for its life. You can have an impact. Head to canadaland.com/join to become a supporter today.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet David Wallace, political fixer and dirty tricks operative.  After a career in the shadows, he’s turned whistleblower, leaking his files and sparking a conspiracy theory.  But why? And can he be trusted? Written and reported by Jesse Brown and Cherise Seucharan Audio editing and sound design by Tristan Capacchione Original music by Nathan Burley Additional music by Audio Network Editorial Assistance by Sarah Lawrynuik Executive Producer, Jesse Brown  To listen to the rest of the limited...

Meet David Wallace, political fixer. After decades in the game he says he’s getting out, telling all, and dumping his files in public. The result is the viral "Klondike Papers" theory of conspiracies, conservatives, and cults. But are the allegations true? And why is he really implicating himself, and so many others? A wild, true story. Series launches October 31st. Subscribe now (link). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Subscribe to The White Saviors now! Series launch: August 23 This trailer contains source materials used under the Fair Dealing provisions of the Copyright Act.  Sources:  It Takes a Child Craig Kielburger's Story - A Journey into Child Labour Directed by Judy Jackson Produced by Judy Films Youtube The Story of Craig Kielburger produced, and narrated by Sherine Mansour CPAC Youtube In Search Of Character LiveWire Media Elkind+Sweet Communications,...

The verdict arrives in the trial that everyone’s talking about. Can there be justice? As Thunder Bay grapples with the truth about itself, people are still dying. Kids are still dying. So where do we go from here?   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When a system is broken, you can work outside of it to create something new, or you can try to change it from within. But what happens when you need the system?   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It’s infamous as the homicide and hate crime capital of Canada. And now, Thunder Bay has been officially diagnosed as racist. But so what? Does knowing this mean that anything will change? Welcome to Canada's first post-truth town.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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New stories from Thunder Bay. Coming November, 2020. Support us at canadaland.com/join. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A new investigative series about the cocaine smuggling ring inside Vice Media.

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"I grew up in a place where I couldn't even breathe."

What if Thunder Bay isn't broken? What if it's working just as it's supposed to?

Agnew Johnston was a lawyer who represented the state against criminals. But he was a criminal himself, paying underage girls for sex. His defence? Everybody in Thunder Bay is doing it, so why are you picking on me? The story of a case that implicated Thunder Bay's elite. 

Nine teenagers died. There is evidence of foul play. There are suspects. There are motives. There have even been confessions. But nobody has ever been charged. In a town with no consequences, it will happen again.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A dark, grainy, cellphone video leads to criminal charges against the mayor, his wife, the chief of police, and a multimillionaire lawyer turned convicted sex offender, whose wife disappeared years ago. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Locals call it Murder Bay. It might be the most dangerous city for Indigenous youth in the world. But to others, it's their white nirvana. Host Ryan McMahon wants to know - not who killed all those kids, but what killed them. This is Thunder Bay.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The highest homicide and hate crime rates in the country. A mayor charged with extortion. A police chief who faced trial for obstruction of justice. Nine tragic deaths of Indigenous high schoolers. Why does it all happen here?   Thunder Bay debuts on October 22, 2018. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.