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the fifth estate is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 television newsmagazine
Newsmagazine

A newsmagazine, also spelled news magazine, is usually a weekly magazine featuring articles or segments on current events. News magazines generally go more in-depth into stories than newspapers or television news, trying to give the reader an understanding of the context surrounding important events, rather than just the facts....
, which airs on the English language
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , a Canada crown corporation, is the country?s national public radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Soci?t? Radio-Canada ....
. The name is a play on the fact that the media are sometimes referred to as the Fourth Estate
Fourth Estate

The term Fourth Estate refers to the journalism. The term goes back at least to Thomas Carlyle in the first half of the 19th century. Thomas Macaulay used it in 1828....
, and was chosen to highlight the program's determination to go beyond everyday news into original journalism.






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the fifth estate is a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 television newsmagazine
Newsmagazine

A newsmagazine, also spelled news magazine, is usually a weekly magazine featuring articles or segments on current events. News magazines generally go more in-depth into stories than newspapers or television news, trying to give the reader an understanding of the context surrounding important events, rather than just the facts....
, which airs on the English language
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , a Canada crown corporation, is the country?s national public radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Soci?t? Radio-Canada ....
. The name is a play on the fact that the media are sometimes referred to as the Fourth Estate
Fourth Estate

The term Fourth Estate refers to the journalism. The term goes back at least to Thomas Carlyle in the first half of the 19th century. Thomas Macaulay used it in 1828....
, and was chosen to highlight the program's determination to go beyond everyday news into original journalism. It is normally spelled in all lowercase letters. The program has been on the air since September 16, 1975, and its primary focus is on investigative journalism. Stories from The Fifth Estate routinely make headlines in Canada and have been regularly exported to other television networks around the world.

The Fifth Estate is Canada's foremost current affairs program. It has engaged in co-productions with the BBC, The New York Times
The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"?named for its staid appearance and style?is regarded as a national newspaper of record....
, the leading Canadian newspapers The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canada English language nationally distributed newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country....
 and The Toronto Star, and often with the PBS series Frontline.

It has won far more awards than any other Canadian information program, including scores of Gemini award
Gemini Award

The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of television members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television....
s (Canada's Emmys) among them nine for Best Information Series, numerous domestic investigative journalism awards, many New York and Columbus awards, International Emmys, and in 2000 The Michener Award, Canada's top journalism prize, which is open to all media and has only one annual winner. One recent co-production with The New York Times and PBS's Frontline was recognized with the Pulitzer, Peabody, Polk and other awards.

The Fifth Estate is one of two television series (with The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

The Twilight Zone is a science fiction anthology series United States television series created by Rod Serling. The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains television syndication to this day....
 being the first) to win an Academy Award: Just Another Missing Kid
Just Another Missing Kid

Just Another Missing Kid is a documentary film about the search for missing teenager directed by John Zaritsky. Eric Wilson had left his native Ottawa in July 1978 in a Volkswagen camper on a trip to Boulder, Colorado....
, originally a The Fifth Estate episode, was released in theatres in the United States and won the 1982 Academy Award for Documentary Feature
Academy Award for Documentary Feature

The Academy Awards for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films....
.

Programs

News reports aired on The Fifth Estate have included investigations into/reports about:
  • Airbus affair
    Airbus affair

    The Airbus affair refers to allegations of secret commissions paid to members of the Government of Canada during the term of Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney, in exchange for then-crown corporation Air Canada's purchase of a large number of Airbus jets....
    , Brian Mulroney
    Brian Mulroney

    Martin Brian Mulroney, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec was the List of Prime Ministers of Canada Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993....
     and Karlheinz Schreiber
    Karlheinz Schreiber

    Karlheinz Schreiber a Germany-born Canadian citizen who is a lobbyist, fundraiser, Arms industry and businessman. He is chiefly known for his alleged role in the 1999 CDU contributions scandal in Germany, which damaged the political legacy of former Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl, and the Airbus affair in Canada, which was linked through...
  • Airport Security
    Airport security

    Airport security refers to the techniques and methods used in protecting airports and aircraft from crime.Large numbers of people pass through airports....
  • Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda

    Al-Qaeda, alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida, is an international Sunni Islam Islamist Extremism movement founded sometime between August 1988 and late 1989/early 1990....
     in Europe
  • Benny Hinn
    Benny Hinn

    Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn is a televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades" ? revival meeting/faith healing summits that are usually held in large stadiums in major cities, which are later broadcast worldwide on his television program, This Is Your Day....
  • Brandon Crisp
    Disappearance of Brandon Crisp

    Brandon Emmett Crisp disappeared on October 13, 2008, when the fifteen-year-old boy ran away from his home in Barrie, Ontario, Canada after his parents took away his Xbox 360 due to falling grades and excessive play of Call of Duty 4....
  • Chris Benoit
    Chris Benoit

    Christopher Michael Benoit was a Canada professional wrestling who, in 2007 received extensive media coverage as a result of being the Chris Benoit double murder and suicide in which he killed his wife and child, then himself, over the span of a weekend....
    , Wrestler: Fight to the Death
  • Chuckie Akenz
    Chuckie Akenz

    Phong Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Canadian rapper. He was born on January 21, 1986. He grew up in the notorious Jane and Finch neighborhood of Toronto, Canada....
  • Communications Security Establishment
    Communications Security Establishment

    The Communications Security Establishment Canada is the Canada Government of Canada's national Cryptology Intelligence agency. Administered under the Department of National Defence , it is charged with the duty of keeping track of foreign SIGINT , and protecting Canadian government electronic information and communication networks....
  • David Frost
    David Frost (sports agent)

    David Frost is a controversial junior hockey coach and NHLPA agent, best known as the alleged target of a murder-for-hire plot by one of his clients, former St....
     and Mike Danton
    Mike Danton

    Michael Sage Danton is a former professional ice hockey player....
  • Dick Cheney
    Dick Cheney

    Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 in the George W....
  • Jane and Finch
    Jane and Finch

    Jane and Finch is a neighbourhood located in the former city of North York, Ontario in northwestern Toronto, Ontario, Canada, centred around the intersection of two arterial roads: Jane Street and Finch Avenue....
  • Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
    Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation

    The 'Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation' , but for corporate branding purposes simply known as "OLG" is a Crown Corporation of the Government of Ontario, Canada....
     ("Luck of the Draw")
  • Pierre Vallières
    Pierre Vallières

    Pierre Valli?res , was a Qu?bec journalist, and writer. He was considered an intellectual leader of the Front de lib?ration du Qu?bec .Valli?res was born in the east end of Montreal, Canada, but grew up in Ville Jacques-Cartier ...
  • Polygamy
    Polygamy

    The term polygamy is used in related ways in social anthropology, sociobiology, and sociology. Polygamy can be defined as any "Types of marriages in which a person [has] more than one spouse."...
     in Bountiful, British Columbia
    Bountiful, British Columbia

    Bountiful is a settlement located in the Creston Valley of southeastern British Columbia, Canada, near Cranbrook, British Columbia and Creston, British Columbia....
  • 9/11 myths
  • Steven Truscott
    Steven Truscott

    Steven Murray Truscott is a Canada man who was sentenced to death in 1959, when he was a 14-year old student, for the alleged murder of classmate Lynne Harper....
  • To sell a war
    To sell a war

    To Sell A War is documentary film, first aired in December 1992 as part of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program the fifth estate....
  • Tunagate
    Tunagate

    Tunagate was a 1985 Canada political scandal involving large quantities of possibly tainted tuna that were sold to the public under order of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans , John Fraser ....


Journalists

Journalists associated with the show, past and present, include:
  • The Rt. Hon.
    The Right Honourable

    The Right Honourable is an honorific prefix that is traditionally applied to certain people in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Anglophone Caribbean and other Commonwealth Realms, and occasionally elsewhere....
     Adrienne Clarkson
    Adrienne Clarkson

    Adrienne Louise Clarkson is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who, until 27 September 2005, served as the Governor General of Canada. She was appointed as such by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, on the recommendation of then Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chr?tien, to replace Rom?o LeBlanc as viceroy....
  • Anna Maria Tremonti
    Anna Maria Tremonti

    Anna Maria Tremonti is a Canada radio and television journalist, who has been featured on a variety of programs on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation....
  • Bob McKeown
    Bob McKeown

    Robert "Bob" McKeown is an investigative reporter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has also worked with NBC and CBS. McKeown returned to the CBC in November, 2002, to host its investigative programme, the fifth estate, a show which he had hosted from 1981 to 1990....
  • David Studer
  • Eric Malling
    Eric Malling

    Eric Malling was a Canada television journalist.Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, he graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a BA degree in English literature then continued his studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario where he graduated from the School of Journalism....
  • Francine Pelletier
    Francine Pelletier (journalist)

    Francine Pelletier is a journalist based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is the founder of a feminism newspaper, La Vie en Rose, and has written for La Presse , Le Devoir, and the Montreal Gazette....
  • Gillian Findlay
    Gillian Findlay

    Gillian Findlay is a Canadian television journalist who has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and American Broadcasting Corporation....
  • Glenn Sarty
    Glenn Sarty

    Glenn Sarty was a Canadian television producer who was involved in such shows as Take Thirty, the fifth estate and Adrienne At Large....
  • Hana Gartner
    Hana Gartner

    Hana Gartner is a multiple award-winning Canada television investigative journalist, best known as the host/interviewer of several programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation....
  • Harvey Cashore
  • Ian Parker
  • Jim Williamson
  • Linden MacIntyre
    Linden MacIntyre

    Linden MacIntyre is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist. He has won eight Gemini Awards, an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence....
  • Marie Caloz
  • Neil Docherty
  • Peter Reilly
    Peter Reilly

    Peter Reilly may refer to any of several people:* Peter Reilly, host of the fifth estate* Peter Reilly, a member of the 29th Canadian Parliament...
  • Robin Taylor
  • Ron Haggart
  • Sally Reardon
  • Sheila MacVicar
    Sheila MacVicar

    Sheila MacVicar is a television journalist. She is currently working for CBS News as that network's London, United Kingdom correspondent. Past jobs include reporting for CBC Television, ABC News and CNN....
  • Stevie Cameron
    Stevie Cameron

    Stevie Cameron is a Canada investigative journalist and author....
  • Theresa Burke
    Theresa Burke

    Theresa Frances Veronica Burke is a Canadian writer, journalist and Television producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Company's television newsmagazine, the fifth estate....
  • Trish Wood
  • Victor Malarek
    Victor Malarek

    Victor Gregory Malarek is a Canada journalist and author. Currently, he is a senior reporter for CTV Television Network's W-FIVEFrom 1990 to 2000, Malarek was one of the hosts for CBC Television's the fifth estate....
  • Warner Troyer
    Warner Troyer

    Warner Troyer was a Canadian broadcast journalist and writer.Troyer began his journalism career as a reporter for a newspaper in Manitoba. He was later featured on the 1960s CBC Television current affairs program This Hour Has Seven Days....


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