Thunder Bay

Jan 22 2025 13 ep. 30 mins 5.3k
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The highest homicide and hate crime rates in the country. Why does it all happen here?
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Introducing: The Copernic Affair

Jan 22 2025 3 mins  
The Copernic Affair is available now, wherever you get your podcasts.The life of an unassuming sociology professor in Canada gets turned upside down when he is accused of carrying out a 1980 bomb attack on a synagogue in Paris. Hassan Diab says heʼs innocent, but French investigators are determined to prove otherwise.Journalists Dana Ballout and Alex Atack take listeners through t

Post-Mortem, Part 2

Nov 20 2023 36 mins  
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 E

Post-Mortem, Part 1

Nov 13 2023 39 mins  
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 fo

Return to Thunder Bay - Criminally Responsible

Dec 15 2020 43 mins  
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?Support us here: canadaland.com/join.This episode is brought to you by HelloFresh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Return to Thunder Bay - It Happens Because You're Indigenous

Nov 30 2020 41 mins  
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?Support us here: canadaland.com/join.This episode is brought to you by Missing From the Village and HelloFresh. Additional music by AudioNetwork.CORRECTION: An earlier edit of this episode presented an incomplet

Return to Thunder Bay - A Post-Truth Town

Nov 16 2020 46 mins  
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.Support us here: canadaland.com/join. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Introducing: Return to Thunder Bay

Oct 18 2020 1 mins  
New stories from Thunder Bay. Coming November, 2020.Original artwork by Blake Angeconeb and Michah Dowbak.Support us at canadaland.com/join. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chapter 5 - Burners

Nov 25 2018 28 mins  
What if Thunder Bay isn't broken?What if it's working just as it's supposed to?Support us here: canadaland.com/join. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chapter 4 - The Ruthless Game

Nov 12 2018 46 mins  
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. Support us here: canadaland.com/join. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chapter 3 - Deathly Low Priority

Oct 28 2018 39 mins  
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. Support us here: canadaland.com/join. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.