News/Investigates

In the spring of 2018, Foster Coulson appeared on the cover of BCBusiness magazine wearing a red velvet jacket.  He stood, arms folded, with a group of young entrepreneurs who the magazine declared were “ready to rewrite the rules of business.” At 28, Coulson was about to join his olderContinue Reading

The outline of a liquor bottle is carved into boards just beneath the tip of the roof on one side of Chris Oliver’s barn, which sits a few feet away from the Canadian border which runs along the northern edge of his farm near Fort Covington, N.Y. The outline echoesContinue Reading

News·CBC Investigates The website Reliable Recent News has been identified by officials in Europe and the U.S. as a repository for pro-Kremlin articles that are distributed through a network of affiliated sites disguised to appear as legitimate news outlets. Foreign Interference Inquiry must look into Russia after revelations about propagandaContinue Reading

The social media accounts of two of Canada’s most vocal far-right pundits have fallen unusually silent after U.S. officials accused them of being collaborators of a covert Russian propaganda campaign. On Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department unsealed an indictment against two Russian nationals, accusing them of setting up a conservativeContinue Reading

News·CBC Investigates One of the key players allegedly behind a fatal cross-border human smuggling run that ended in the St. Lawrence River drowning deaths last March of nine people — including a toddler and an infant — is currently facing an extradition request from the U.S. on a nine-count indictment,Continue Reading

News·CBC Investigates To understand how the Nord Stream pipeline attack in September 2022 might have occurred, German public broadcaster ARD chartered the very yacht the perpetrators allegedly used and sent divers into the roiling waters of the Baltic Sea. German network ARD chartered yacht and divers to see how sabotageContinue Reading

WARNING: This story contains discussion of suicide. Marien de Freitas has seen one too many friends die by suicide. De Freitas started at the University of Waterloo in the fall of 2020, right at the peak of the pandemic. Classes were all online, and the isolation amplified anxiety and otherContinue Reading

News·CBC Investigates For the first time, Mike Holmes has spoken publicly about a lawsuit that alleges houses in a “Holmes Approved Homes” housing development in Meaford, Ont. were built with defects, saying his company had no access to the houses during construction and was unable to help spot potential problems.Continue Reading

A large excavator tears through a modern house in Meaford, Ont., a picturesque community on Georgian Bay. Occupied for just two years, the home’s once soaring ceilings, big windows and backyard patio are demolished into crushed glass and wood.  “It’s traumatic,” said Fayard Johnson, who lives just down the street. “Really surprised to seeContinue Reading