W5 Podcast

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W5 Podcast episodes

March 05, 2023 The Tallest Teen on Earth: Meet Montreal basketball prospect Olivier Rioux
He's seven-foot-six and possibly still growing. Montreal's Olivier Rioux has been towering over his peers since he was five years old. TSN's Rick Westhead talks to Rioux about what it's like to live head-and-shoulders above the crowd.

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23 min
February 26, 2023 Washed Away: Shrinking Canadian coastlines put East Coast homes in danger
Post-tropical storm Fiona showed how quickly Canadians can be displaced by climate change. Will more people have to consider moving in the years to come?

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23 min
February 19, 2023 The Explosion: A family searches for accountability after the 2020 Beirut blast
More than two years after downtown Beirut was levelled by an explosion, a Lebanese-Canadian family of a 3-year-old girl killed in the blast is still searching for answers.

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23 min
February 12, 2023 Buried Evidence: Quebec man convicted in four murders insists he's not a killer
Convicted murderer Daniel Jolivet, in prison for the past 30 years, has maintained his innocence since the day he was arrested. W5 reviews the evidence he painstakingly assembled while behind bars.

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23 min
February 05, 2023 Narco Avocados: Violent drug cartels are taking over Mexico's avocado industry
CTV's W5 goes deep into the narco heartland to interview a commander with one of Mexico's most brutal cartels about their incursions into the country's avocado industry.

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44 min
January 29, 2023 Royal Retreat: Raising questions about the future of the monarchy
With Prince Andrew the latest in a string of British royal scandals, is the House of Windsor starting to crumble? W5 looks at the future of the monarchy.

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23 min
January 15, 2023 The Songwriter: Meet Gordie Sampson - Nova Scotia's country music songwriting superstar
Gordie Sampson has written hit songs for some of the biggest names in country music, including Carrie Underwood and Luke Bryan. CTV W5 speaks with the Grammy winner from small-town Nova Scotia about his creative process.

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23 min
January 10, 2023 Raiders and the Lost Art: The largest art heist in Canadian history remains a mystery
CTV W5 investigates Canada's largest art heist, 50 years after thieves snatched masterpieces from the walls of Montreal's Museum of Fine Arts.

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23 min
December 18, 2022 Vanished: What happened to Luke Joly-Durocher? Man mysteriously disappears in Ontario
Twenty-year-old Luke Joly-Durocher seemingly vanished without a trace in 2011 after a night out with friends in North Bay, Ont. CTV W5 investigates the cold case more than a decade later.

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23 min
December 11, 2022 Cocaine Cargo: Pivot Airlines crew speaks out about nightmare ordeal in the Dominican Republic
CTV's W5 has been shown never-before-seen surveillance footage of Punta Cana International Airport from the night before a Canadian airline crew was detained after discovering duffel bags stuffed with 210 kilograms of cocaine in their plane's avionics bay.

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44 min

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The most-watched documentary program in Canada is now available as a podcast! W5 has an on ongoing commitment to covering tough, relevant stories with fair and responsible investigative reporting.…