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

We’ve heard for years about the dangers of eating too much fat or salt. But there have never been recommended limits for sugar on Canadian food...

A lot of our clothes bear the label ‘Made in Bangladesh’. But before the deadly collapse of a garment factory there last April, most of...

When a body was found in a roadside ditch outside Mexico City, it seemed like just another murder – one of tens of thousands of violent...

How do you move three enormous elephants 4000 kilometres? Very very carefully and bring lots of hay.... When the fifth estate joined the convoy...

The controversial WikiLeaks founder gets the Hollywood treatment in the new movie 'The Fifth Estate' but the real fifth estate on CBC-TV tracks the...

Crack cocaine. Alcohol. Friends who have criminal backgrounds. Just over a year ago, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford stood next to Police Chief Bill Blair...

A year after her death, most people remember Amanda Todd from her YouTube video, holding up hand-written pages describing how one mistake in front of...

Whether it's the assassination of JFK or the events of 9/11, when national tragedies occur they trigger painful soul-searching. In both cases a...

North Korea is among the world's most mysterious and secretive countries. The little we know comes from desperate souls who risk everything escaping...

Scientists across the country are expressing growing alarm that federal cutbacks to research programs monitoring areas that range from climate change...

An unprecedented view into the life of Jeffrey Arenburg. He was found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder for the death of...

The night of September 14th, 2013 north of Montreal, police set off on a manhunt for notorious Hells Angels hitman Rene “Balloune”...

It was a desperate gamble – more than 130 Chinese migrants spent months in squalid conditions below the deck of an old fishing boat, risking...

Life in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Lev Tahor is supposed to be simple: the rules for dress, diet, schooling, marriage and worship are...

Even as a youngster growing up in Prince Edward Island, he had ambitions to make it big on Parliament Hill. Eventually, Mike Duffy’s knack for...

As many young Canadians head off for spring break holidays, do they face unexpected and potentially lethal dangers – in their hotel rooms? When...

It’s a question you might think medical science would have answered long ago – when are you dead? But in “Dead Enough” the...

This season, the fifth estate was flooded with tips from viewers, asking our team to investigate stories important to you. We listened, we did our...

Even after a story airs on television, the fifth estate does not stop investigating. Mark Kelley checks in with a survivor of the collapse of a...