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Available on CBC Gem The Oxy Kingpins The untold story of how a network of pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors and retailers worked together to orchestrate and perpetuate the opioid crisis that has killed over half a million people in America. More »

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The Oxy Kingpins
The Dissident
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
The Return: Life After ISIS
My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan
Harry & William: What Went Wrong?

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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 »
features ‘I know why Jamal was killed’: Saudi activist in Canada says hacked phones led to Jamal Kashoggi’s murder Omar Abdulaziz is still calling for justice for Khashoggi’s assassination and attempting to give a voice to young Saudis More »
features These Western women left their home countries to join ISIS Why did they do it? And what happened when they got to Syria? More »
features Love, money and betrayal: are Harry and William at war? A new documentary looks at reported tensions and how they may have led Harry to step back from royal duties More »
features ‘With artificial intelligence, we have nowhere to hide. Don’t you think it’s horrifying?’ Chongqing, China has 300,000 CCTV cameras. Liu Hu explains what it's like to live under surveillance. More »
features Canada’s indifference to the deaths of seven First Nations teenagers is ‘just plain racism’: Tanya Talaga The fractured and often violent relationship with Indigenous Peoples started in the past but bleeds into the present, says writer and documentary filmmaker Tanya Talaga More »
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