The Village: The Montreal Murders

As more and more gay men are found murdered in 1990s Montreal, the city reckons with both the AIDS crisis and a possible serial killer. Faced with police indifference, despite mounting evidence, a group of activists takes matters into their own hands. This seven-part series, hosted by journalist Francis Plourde, explores the birth of a movement and the slow march toward justice. In a unique first, podcast production teams from CBC and Radio-Canada joined forces to tell the same story in English and French.

Radio-Canada's sister podcast Le Village : meurtres, combats, fiert hosted by Marie-Eve Tremblay also launches June 7, exclusively on Radio-Canada OHdio.

The Village: Season Two

Transgender women know what it means to be marginalized, overpoliced, and underprotected, and the violence that results. A community of sex workers, in particular, is too often criminalized and vulnerable. Host Justin Ling returns to explore the stories of two women Alloura Wells and Cassandra Do whose deaths remain unexplained. Following the award-winning first season of THE VILLAGE, which delves into cases of missing and murdered men in Toronto's gay community dating back to the 1970s, season two reveals new details about these womens' lives, the systems that failed them, and a police investigation gone wrong.  We ask the question: When it comes to protecting the queer community, have we learned nothing?

The Village

For eight years, Toronto's Gay Village worried a serial killer was operating in its midst. Men had been disappearing from the neighbourhood, but police insisted there was no evidence of foul play. It wasn't until January, 2018, that police finally arrested Bruce McArthur for the murders of eight men. This case has now set off a chain reaction: Police are now re-opening more than a two dozen cold case murders from the Village, dating back to 1975. To a time when it was safer to stay in the closet than come out. Journalist Justin Ling covered the story, from the disappearances to the arrest, and now he's going back to shed a light on these long-forgotten unsolved murders.

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