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Available on CBC Gem The Pretendians Why are there so many ‘pretend Indians’ these days? Anishinaabe author Drew Hayden Taylor investigates More »

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The Pretendians
Deconstructing Karen
Into the Weeds: Dewayne ‘Lee’ Johnson vs. Monsanto Company
The Oxy Kingpins
The Dissident
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street

Episodes

Friday October 21 The Talented Mr. Rosenberg Toronto conman Albert Rosenberg convinced banks, art galleries, elite investors — and his family — that he was a sophisticated, successful tycoon. How did he do it? And how did he get away with it for so long? More »
Friday October 7 The Conservation Game Where do all the animals from late-night TV go after their time in the spotlight? More »
Available on CBC Gem The Pretendians Why are there so many ‘pretend Indians’ these days? Anishinaabe author Drew Hayden Taylor investigates More »
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Features

features Identity wars: What makes an Indigenous person Indigenous, and how do ‘pretendians’ complicate things? Drew Hayden Taylor examines the issue of ‘pretendians,’ those faking Indigenous heritage, in new documentary More »
features A group of First Nations Elders is trying to ban glyphosate. They say it’s killing their way of life The elders say glyphosate is contaminating the food and medicines in their territory More »
features ‘I want to go to trial. I want them to see what they’re doing to people’ Mario Cannon filed a lawsuit against Monsanto, claiming Roundup contributed to his cancer More »
features This popular herbicide is slowly devastating honeybee populations, say scientists Scientists at the University of Texas found that honeybees don’t ‘drop dead’ right away after exposure to glyphosate, but that there is a persistent effect on their gut microbiota More »
features He was drenched in a weed-killer made by Monsanto in a workplace accident. Then he was diagnosed with cancer New documentary follows former groundskeeper Dewayne “Lee” Johnson’s trial against agrochemical giant Monsanto More »
features 12 million OxyContin pills shipped to a town of 500: How profit fuelled America’s opioid crisis In Depth Pharmaceutical companies were a huge driver of the opioid epidemic — but instead of being punished, they’ve been richly compensated More »
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