This Is Why

In this episode of the Global News podcast This is Why, Global News investigative reporter Sam Cooper explains how organized crime groups and small-time operators alike are making a killing from fentanyl.

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Earlier this year, Global News reporter Farah Nasser spoke with prominent Canadians about their experiences with discrimination. They spoke candidly about names they’ve been called to shed light on the lasting impacts. What can be done to help future generations and how can we be proactive when we witness hate speech?

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The result of Calgary’s plebiscite shows a changing attitude towards the Winter Olympic Games and the controversial organising committee, as cities around the world continue to decline invitations to host upcoming games. With the help of the former CEO of Vancouver's Olympic Committee John Furlong, and CHQR’s Rob Breakenridge, we examine how the future of the Winter Games may be at risk.

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John Horace Oughton is believed to have sexually assaulted more than 100 women and children across Vancouver's Lower Mainland in the 1980s. He is known as the "paper bag rapist" because he used to make his victims wear a bag over their heads when he was assaulting them. Sometimes he wore a bag as well.

In 1987, he was found guilty of committing 14 sexual assaults and has been in prison ever since.

The youngest of his victims, Nikki, who wishes to keep her last name private, was just eight years old when she was assaulted.

Nikki has spent the past 30 years dealing with the trauma of what happened to her, and in February of this year she decided to meet her rapist face-to-face as part of a restorative justice program.

On this week's episode of the Global News podcast This is Why, we hear part two of a two-part series as Nikki shares her story for the very first time.

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