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Nov 1982
On July 10, 1978, Eric Wilson - a 19-year from Ottawa and student at Tufts University - left home to drive to a summer college course in Colorado. When he went missing four days afterward in Nebraska, his family tried to persuade local and U.S. police that he wasn't simply a runaway and hadn't simply forgotten to call home. The program examines the lengths to which they had to go to find out what happened to Eric, and the byzantine nature of the legal system which seemed less interested in pursuing justice than in avoiding the expenses involved in the investigation and potential trials.
Tue, Apr 26, 1983
In 1982, the fifth estate's Hana Gartner sat down with one of Montreal's most notorious hitmen to discuss how he got away with murder - and how he became a police informer. Donald Lavoie was involved with 27 murders during his ten-year career as a hired killer for gang leader Claude Dubois. "I found it so easy," Lavoie told Gartner. "A man's life was so easy to take away. "Once you kill once, the second is nothing." Lavoie was never convicted for his killings, but police did arrest him for extortion and convinced him to become a police informant.
Mon, Feb 20, 1984
In this 1984 report Bob McKeown reports on a growing number of Canadian men who are choosing their marriage partner from a catalogue. The piece focuses on the story of Korean Yune Heue and Calgarian Ken Penny. Penny first saw Yune Heue in a catalogue entitled 'Lotus Blossoms,' one of many introduction magazines that matched Asian women with North American men. Heue travels to Calgary to meet her future husband. McKeown interviews proprietors of several introduction agencies to learn what motivates both potential brides and North American men to use mail order bride services.
Mon, Mar 9, 1992
It is a closed religious society with traditional values. At the turn of the century thousands of Mennonites left Canada for Mexico and the area around Cuauhtémoc. At the time of our 1992 piece, their ways were changing in their society as alcohol and economic problems grew and were faced with a bigger issue, a flourishing drug trade. Immigration and border officials in Canada and the United States said at the time there was a Mennonite Mob smuggling tons of drugs into both countries.
Mon, Oct 5, 1992
After over 20 years the brutal dictatorship of Siad Barre in Somalia ended in 1991, engulfing the country in civil war and famine. Many Somalis fled their homes and thousands of refugees came to Canada. Most had legitimate refugee claims, but some had been accused of war crimes back in Somalia. The film explores how the men were able to slip through the cracks of the Canadian immigration system, and how their presence was affecting the Somali community in Canada.
Mon, Apr 11, 1994
For 14 weeks a Canadian family with a troubled son allowed cameras to record their home life. Evan is an aggressive 11 year old, who steals, smokes and drinks. Cameras reveal that the trouble with Evan has a lot to do with the troubled lives of his parents. Evan's experience is placed alongside the life stories of young offenders and drug addicts in the Portage Correctional Centre, whose personal histories are similar to Evan's.