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A Death in Cryptoland

When the young CEO of Canadas largest cryptocurrency exchange is reported to have died while honeymooning in India, it sets off a cataclysmic chain of events that would leave about 76,000 people out more than a quarter of a billion dollars and a trail of conspiracy theories around whether Gerald Cotten is dead or alive

Alone: A Love Story

ALONE: A LOVE STORY is a memoir about love, the bomb and the fallout.

Asking For It

A queer contemporary take on the Goldilocks tale: about love, music, and breaking the cycle of abuse.

Boys Like Me

In 2018, a Toronto man drove a van down a busy sidewalk, killing 11 people and injuring many more

Brainwashed

BRAINWASHED is a multi-part investigation into the CIAs experiments in mind control from the Cold War and MKULTRA to the so-called War on Terror.

BUFFY

Buffy Sainte-Marie is one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of the past century. For 60 years her music has quietly reverberated throughout pop culture, and provided a touchstone for Indigenous resistance. In this five-part series, Mohawk and Tuscarora writer Falen Johnson explores how Buffys life and legacy is essential to understanding Indigenous resilience.

CARRIE LOW VS.

Carrie Low trusted police when she reported her horrific rape. But she says they failed to investigate properly, and only succeeded in traumatizing her further

CBC News: Front Burner

CBC NEWS: FRONT BURNER is an original daily news podcast hosted and produced by award-winning investigative journalist Jayme Poisson.

Chosen Family

Montreal comedians Thomas Leblanc & Tranna Wintour shine a light on the intersection of art, identity, and sexuality.

Evil By Design

Dozens of women from around the world have accused the fast-fashion mogul Peter Nygard of rape, sexual assault and human trafficking in incidents across four decades and at least four countries

Hollywood Exiles

Inappropriate Questions

INAPPROPRIATE QUESTIONS is a podcast that explores and deconstructs invasive questions often asked to different communities.

Kuper Island

Let’s Make a Rom-Com

The team that brought you Lets Make a Sci-Fi is back! Ryan Beil, Maddy Kelly, and Mark Chavez are busy in their writers roombut this time theyre doing things Maddys way. All Maddy has ever wanted is to write a rom-com, and with Mark and Ryan in tow, the three comedians will explore what makes a romantic comedy a romantic comedy, the cultural impact of rom-coms, and whether three people with very different lived experiences can write a fresh, contemporary, and funny love story. LET'S MAKE A ROM-COM (8 episodes) launches Tuesday, February 14, 2023.

LET’S MAKE A SCI-FI

Let’s Not Be Kidding

In this seven-part series, Gavin tells the story of losing his mother his best friend and the inspiration for a lot of his comedy to a disease that can be as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. Hes joined by comedian friends who share their experience caring for family members with dementia. The result is a cross between an improv act and a support group. Part memoir, part stand-up, part meditation on grief and loss, Lets Not Be Kidding is a dose of the very best medicine for anyone dealing with hard times.

Life Jolt

Life Jolt - prison slang for a life sentence - examines the lives of women navigating Canadas correctional system

Limited Capacity

Unsettling, seductive and strange. Short stories about human connectivity

Love Me

Deep down we all just want to be loved, so why is it one of the toughest things to get right?

Love, Janessa

Who is Janessa? Host Hannah Ajala embarks on a wild search for an adult entertainment star whose images are being used in global catfishing schemes. The investigation takes listeners from the UK to Italy, West Africa and the U.S., uncovering a criminal network of scammers using Janessa's image to lure victims into financial and emotional duress. This eight-part true crime series is an original podcast from the BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts, produced by Antica and Telltale Productions.

Mic Drop

Navigating the inner lives of tweens and teens as they roll with emotional punches, chase dreams, manage relationships, and break rules, the series features first-person stories about young people with no adult interruptions.

Missing & Murdered

CBC News Missing and Murdered podcast series is hosted by CBC News investigative reporter Connie Walker.

More with Anna Maria Tremonti

MORE WITH ANNA MARIA TREMONTI takes you deep into conversation and to some unexpected places with high-profile guests and rising stars from a variety of fields.

Nothing is Foreign

A weekly podcast that knows theres no such thing as foreign it just depends on your point of view. This is world news for people craving stories from elsewhere, and for people who want the view from on the ground, not from above. Immersive, immediate, real host Tamara Khandakar invites listeners to take a trip each week to see the world from a different perspective.

Other People’s Problems

Normally, therapy sessions are totally confidential but this podcast opens the doors.

Personal Best

Turning tiny goals into grand adventures!

PlayME

PlayME transforms the way audiences experience theatre by turning contemporary plays into bingeable audio dramas.

Pop Chat

Host Elamin Abdelmahmoud and the POP CHAT panel invite you in to the group chat to help make sense of the cultural drama blowing up the internet.

Pressure Cooker

John and Amanda have lived on the fringes their whole lives. Theyre on welfare, living with Johns grandma, and struggling with addiction to opioids and Dungeons and Dragons. Everything changes when a mysterious figure with ties to extremist terror enters their lives.

Recall: How To Start A Revolution

RECALL: HOW TO START A REVOLUTION reveals the stories of the October Crisis through the voices of those who lived it: the bomb expert plying his nerve-wracking trade, the survivors of terror and the families of the less fortunate, the radicals themselves.

Run, Hide, Repeat

Pauline Dakin grew up on the run. It wasnt unusual for her family to pack up in the night and flee to motels or campsites in the Canadian wilderness.

Seat at the Table

Best friends Martine St-Victor and Isabelle Racicot return with a new season of in-depth conversations with notable guests from media, sports and pop culture.

Secret Life of Canada

SECRET LIFE OF CANADA highlights the people, places and stories that probably didn't make it into your high school textbook.

Sickboy

SICKBOY is determined to break down the stigma associated with illness and disease.

Someone Knows Something

SOMEONE KNOWS SOMETHING is an original true-crime podcast examining unsolved cases of missing or murdered individuals

Sorry About The Kid

How do you forget your favourite person in the world?

Stuff The British Stole

Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff

Tai Asks Why

Tai Poole is trying to find answers to lifes biggest questions.

The Africas VS. America

In 1985, at the height of the Black Power era, police dropped a bomb in a Philadelphia neighborhood. Their target? A family of Black radicals known as MOVE, who found themselves ensnared in a citys and nations domestic war on Black Liberation. Over seven episodes, host Matthew Amha investigates the events that culminated in the MOVE bombing, and the long afterlife of a forgotten American tragedy.

The Banned Teacher

CBC Ottawas Julie Ireton takes listeners on a journey across the country with a new investigative podcast, The Banned Teacher.

The Dose

THE DOSE is a weekly health podcast that separates fact from fiction an essential public service in these fast moving times.

The Flamethrowers

The Flamethrowers tracks the rise of right wing radio from fringe preachers and conspiracy peddlers of the 1930s to the political firestorm that rages today

The Heart: Sisters

Created by Kaitlin priest, THE HEART is a multi award winning podcast about power and love.This all-new season is a production of CBC Podcasts, Radiotopia and Mermaid Palace.

THE KILL LIST

When human rights activist Karima Baloch is found drowned off the shores of Toronto, an investigation into her mysterious death leads all the way back to Pakistan, the country she had recently fled. In this six-part series titled The Kill List, host Mary Lynk explores the rampant abductions and killings of dissidents in Pakistan, the dangers that follow those who flee to the West, and a terrifying intelligence agency with tentacles around the globe. At its heart, this is a story of brave, inspirational people on a tireless quest for justice, who will speak truth to power at all costs. People whose hope fuels them.

The Next Call

From the creators of Someone Knows Something comes the new investigative podcast, THE NEXT CALL, tackling unsolved cases in a pandemic-restricted world

THE NO-GOOD, TERRIBLY KIND, WONDERFUL LIVES AND TRAGIC DEATHS OF BARRY AND HONEY SHERMAN

THE NO-GOOD, TERRIBLY KIND, WONDERFUL LIVES AND TRAGIC DEATHS OF BARRY AND HONEY SHERMAN is an eight-part investigation into the Shermans incredible rise and mysterious end. The podcast shines a light on what extreme wealth does to people and their families. It's a peek into the lives of Torontos rich and powerful, reported and narrated by veteran podcaster Kathleen Goldhar. Each episode unveils a theory about their deaths, pulling the audience into a dark puzzle of murder and intrigue. Along the way, listeners will get inside the mind of an enigmatic man Barry Sherman, voiced by actor Saul Rubinek (Hunters).

The Outlaw Ocean

THE OUTLAW OCEAN podcast is a seven-part series that explores a gritty and lawless realm rarely seen, populated by traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways.

The Shadows

CBC Podcasts and Kaitlin Prest present THE SHADOWS, a fictional series that explores the anatomy of a relationship.

The Story Store

Run by CBC Kids hosts Mr. Orlando the Moose and Gary the Unicorn, The Story Store takes orders from real kids across Canada and turns their suggestions into hilarious, fun-filled adventures for kids, grandparents and everyone in between.

The Village

By the 1990s, Torontos gay community already had its coming-out. The rash of violent, unsolved, killings of the 1970s and 1980s were fading from the headlines. But for transgender women, who knew what it meant to be overpoliced, yet underprotected, a history of violence was repeating itself

This is Not a Drake Podcast

THIS IS NOT A DRAKE PODCAST is a series that uses seminal moments in Drakes career to explore the history and evolution of hip-hop, R&B and Black culture.

This Is That

Hosted by veteran comedians Peter Oldring and Pat Kelly, THIS IS THAT uses the same audio techniques for comedy as others do for journalism: phone interviews, narrative documentary, archival news clips, witnesses on location, found footage, and so on, but on this podcast, everything is fabricated.

Tony Ho

Award-winning sketch troupe TONY HO brings their uniquely disturbing brand of sketch comedy straight to your ears

Uncover: Bomb on Board

Ian Hanomansing and The National are joining forces with CBC Podcasts for this series, co-hosted by CBC Vancouver's Johanna Wagstaffe.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

UNCOVER: DEAD WRONG takes us through the twisting, almost unbelievable story of Glen Assoun, who spent more than 17 years in prison for the murder of Brenda Way, a crime he did not commit.

Uncover: Escaping NXIVM

NXIVM (pronounced "Nexium") calls itself a humanitarian community. Experts call it a cult.

Uncover: Satanic Panic

In the '80s, Satanic cults were believed to be preying on kids, terrorizing them in dark rituals.

Unlocking Bryson’s Brain

Bryson is a beautiful, happy and loving boy. But a mysterious illness means he cant walk, talk, or feed himself.

Unlocking: The Fountain

What if there were a pill that could add decades to your life? Would you take it? For thousands of years, people have searched for elixirs that could delay death and extend human life

Welcome To Paradise

Anna Maria Tremonti has been keeping her past a secret for over 40 years. As one of Canadas most respected journalists, she has a reputation for being fearless. Shes reported from some of the worlds most dangerous conflict zones. But theres one story shes never made public: when she was 23 years old, she married a man who became physically abusive.Their marriage only lasted one year but the consequences of that abuse lasted a lifetime. New CBC Podcasts series WELCOME TO PARADISE is the first time Anna Maria has told anyoneincluding family or close friendsthe details of what she endured. Working with her therapist in the podcast, she reveals a part of her past shes kept to herself for most of her life. The result is a profoundly intimate portrait of a powerful woman confronting the source of tremendous pain and trauma of intimate partner abuse and, remarkably, freeing herself from a life-long sense of shame.

White Hot Hate

One summer night in 2019, Winnipeg Free Press journalist Ryan Thorpe met with a stranger in a city park

WireTap

Each week, WIRETAP invites you to eavesdrop on a mix of funny, thoughtful and unpredictable stories and conversations.

Your World Tonight

YOUR WORLD TONIGHT is a daily evening podcast, from the journalists behind CBC Radios longstanding news programs The World at Six and The World This Weekend available on CBC Radio, CBC Listen, and wherever you get your podcasts.