About this season
CBC’s new documentary program gets to the heart of current affairs and social issues that matter to Canadians. With unique and often unexpected access, these stories will ignite discussions.
Episodes (16)
1. Bee Nation
Aired 24 September 2017 • 45 min
Witness the highs and lows as three inspirational students compete in the first-ever First Nations Provincial Spelling Bee in Canada.
2. Mohamed Fahmy: Half Free
Aired 1 October 2017 • 45 min
The now pardoned Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy struggles to put his life back together after spending 438 days in a Cairo prison.
3. Return to Park Ex
Aired 8 October 2017 • 45 min
A bittersweet love letter to Montreal's legendary immigrant Park Extension neighbourhood, as seen through the eyes of some lifelong Greek inhabitants, their South Asian neighbours, and a filmmaker.
4. Sickboy
Aired 15 October 2017 • 45 min
A terminally ill 29-year old man teams up with his two best friends to create a podcast that openly laughs in the face of serious illness. What started as a joke, quickly turns into an obsession.
5. Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier
Aired 29 October 2017 • 45 min
A true crime cat-fishing story about a reclusive young woman from a small Manitoba First Nation that made international headlines.
6. Inseparable: 10 Years Joined at the Head
Aired 5 November 2017 • 45 min
Enter the world of ten year old conjoined twins Tatiana and Krista Hogan. They share sight, touch, taste, and may even know what the other is thinking.
7. Birth of a Family
Aired 19 November 2017 • 45 min
Three sisters and a brother, removed from their mother's care as part of Canada's infamous Sixties Scoop and adopted as infants into separate families across North America, meet for the first time.
8. Skinhead
Aired 26 November 2017 • 44 min
For 15 years Brad Galloway was at the centre of right wing extremism in Canada. He saw it all and knew all the players but now he's a 'former' and helping the RCMP map the active hate groups.
9. Angry Inuk
Aired 7 January 2018 • 45 min
Exploring how Inuit hunters in tiny remote communities in the high arctic are negatively affected by animal rights groups protesting against the Canadian east coast seal hunt that happens a thousand kilometers away.
10. The Caregivers' Club
Aired 14 January 2018 • 45 min
A candid and intimate portrait of three caregivers, each taking care of a spouse or patient with dementia.
11. The Way Out
Aired 21 January 2018 • 44 min
A Canadian mother's mission to free her daughter and granddaughters from ISIS.
12. Searching for Winnetou
Aired 28 January 2018 • 45 min
Ojibway author and humourist Drew Hayden Taylor's quest to understand the roots of the German obsession with Native North Americans.
13. Sweet Dreams for Chiyo
Aired 4 February 2018 • 45 min
Rhiana and Kaz Ehara's world turns upside-down when their daughter Chiyo is diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
14. Love, Hope, & Autism
Aired 18 March 2018 • 45 min
An extraordinarily intimate look inside a family as they deal with autism from birth to adulthood, and agonize over what happens next.
15. Catwalk
Aired 1 April 2018 • 45 min
It's Best in Show with whiskers. Meet the felines and fans of the highly competitive cat show circuit in Catwalk.
16. After the Sirens
Aired 8 April 2018 • 44 min
First responders describe the long-term effects of what they've witnessed and the need for more support to treat a PTSD epidemic.