Since the US-led invasion four years ago, the fifth estate has covered Iraq and the war on terror from virtually every angle--the military, media, intellligence, politics--revealing aspects of the story that you didn't find anywhere else. Now, as the White House warns about the latest threat in the region, this time from Iran, we go back to examine the deception, suspect intelligence, even lies that convinced the world of the rightness of targeting Saddam Hussein.

For four decades, Father Charles Sylvestre tended a number of Catholic parishes in southwestern Ontario. He had committed his life to serving God on earth. But, during that time, Father Sylvestre had a secret--he sexually molested little girls between the ages of 9 and 12 and, for years, he got away it because the church kept silent, protecting the priest and its own public image. the fifth estate's Hana Gartner investigates the story of Father Sylvestre, through the testimony of some of his victims, police interrogation video, and senior members of the Catholic clergy.

Experts say there is a potential 'road-rager' inside all of us. They also say that this brand of rage victimizes, from injury to death, more and more people every year. Tension fuels anger, anger fuels aggression…and according to the people who keep the stats, aggressive driving may be a factor in nearly two-thirds of all fatal car crashes. the fifth estate's Gillian Findlay discovered that this trend has been heading the wrong way for years, but in this country we're only just starting to notice. Canada's roads are getting busier and busier and the most unlikely people can explode with rage. And there's no way to predict who will strike back. The highway may be the only place, one expert told the fifth estate, "where you'll see vengeance displayed on a daily basis." And the results can be devastating.

Last summer, Toronto's mostly moderate Muslim community found itself in the glare of unwelcome public attention from the international media when eighteen men were charged with plotting terrorist attacks on Canadian soil. In a special co-production with PBS Frontline, the fifth estate goes inside the alleged terror cell. A Muslim fundamentalist who infiltrated the cell reveals to the fifth estate's Linden MacIntyre the inner workings of the cell and its members. These are young men who have adopted a brand of Islam that they believe sanctions jihad in their home city and against their fellow citizens.

For months afterward, no one could make sense of the shocking shooting in a Toronto sandwich shop that left an innocent bystander, Louise Russo, paralyzed. With no motive and not a single clue, police investigators got an incredible break when Raffaele Delle Donne discovered that membership in the mafia brings no honour, no loyalty, no protection; only betrayal. Once a member of a Toronto mafia family, Delle Donne is now a man on the run, with a price on his head. His involvement in the mob hit that claimed Louise Russo as its only victim, convinced Delle Donne to risk his life, and the life of his family by turning police informer. He steps out of the shadows to talk to the fifth estate's Hana Gartner. She investigates the story of the mob member turned rat and she talks to Louise Russo about that night in the Toronto sandwich shop when so many lives were altered forever.

Earlier this season, the fifth estate had the whole country talking about Luck of the Draw, the story of lottery fraud and 82-year old Bob Edmonds of Coboconk, Ontario, who proved he had been cheated out of a quarter of a million dollar lottery winnings by a corner store clerk. He subsequently sued the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation and regained what had been rightfully his all along. After that story aired, the OLG apologized to Bob Edmonds, calling his experience "regrettable" and that they believed it was "an isolated incident". That might have been the end of the story. It isn't. the fifth estate's investigation found that Bob Edmonds' case was far from an isolated incident: documents leaked to the fifth estate show that concerns about insider thefts have swirled around the OLG for more than a decade. One former investigator told the fifth estate that our story could be "the tip of an iceberg." the fifth estate now focuses on what may prove to be an even bigger problem than the weekly draws: the scratch-and-win games; how they have been manipulated by retailers and how the OLG kept quiet about a problem with the tickets.

In the past few years, a hurricane has engulfed the debate about global warming. This crucial scientific issue has become a rhetorical firestorm with science pitted against spin and inflammatory words on both sides. Bob McKeown investigates why a debate that some say could determine the very future of our planet has become a partisan battleground. The Denial Machine follows a small but powerful group of scientists who argue, among other claims, that global warming may be a good thing and it investigates their links to the oil and coal industries.

In August of 1989, Duncan MacPherson was setting off to start a new life as a hockey coach in Europe. But the 23-year-old Saskatoon native and former NHL first-round draft choice took a holiday detour to the Austrian Alps and then disappeared…for 14 years. Hana Gartner investigates the story of Duncan's disappearance and his mother's and father's determination to uncover the truth, in the face of bureaucratic obstinacy.

It's a gamble that most of us have taken at one point or another: bought a ticket at a corner store and hoped that when those little white balls stop spinning we will be the newest lottery winner. Most of us remain disappointed in the results. But what if you did win the lottery? And what if you never found out? A fifth estate investigation has uncovered new statistics about how often clerks or retailers are winning. A prominent statistician talks about the chances of this happening as often as it does. The results may astonish you.

To his family and friends in Cape Breton, Stephen Marshall was a quiet, sweet-natured young man. But, on the Easter weekend of 2006, his family, his community, the country was stunned by the news that Stephen Marshall had gunned down two men whose names he'd found in a Maine sex offender registry on the internet and then killed himself. The quiet, young man from Cape Breton joined a growing list of killers whose crimes are swift, brutal, incomprehensible. The survivors are left asking why. Linden MacIntyre and the fifth estate went in search of an answer.

Some people have found that not only does crime pay in this country, but it can also be an extremely lucrative career choice. Bob McKeown looks at five individuals linked by their prosperous careers on the wrong side of the law. Find out about "Mr. Big" who runs a drug smuggling enterprise from the Halifax port. Who is the "Teflon Don" of Canada's organized crime families? Who is British Columbia's "Mister Clean", believed to be connected to all manner of criminal activity, but never been charged? In their private lives, they indulge themselves in expensive pastimes and toys, and it's great, as long as they can stay one step ahead of the law. It's life in the fast, and felonious lane.

For almost a year, three young men who grew up on the rough streets of the Jane and Finch area of Toronto, gave Gillian Findlay and the fifth estate unprecedented access to the complexities that make up their neighbourhood and their world. For these three friends--Chuckie, Burnz and Freshy--the Jane and Finch area is a tough world to navigate, an even tougher one to escape. It is a story that will resonate in cities across the country.