Ivan Angelovski

Ivan Angelovski, a former investigative journalist with CBC's The Fifth Estate, is now a freelance writer based in Washington, D.C.

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CBC Investigates

Deadly opioid 40 times more powerful than fentanyl smuggled into Canada inside PlayStations, basketballs

A CBC News investigation reveals that highly potent and potentially deadly restricted substances can be purchased with ease online and delivered to Canada.

How a Northern Irish town descended into 3 days of anti-immigrant violence

Protests in the small Northern Irish town of Ballymena spiralled into acts of anti-immigrant violence this week after two teenagers who spoke Romanian were charged with sexually assaulting a local girl. 

This Canadian 'content farm' topped the politics charts on YouTube — before it was taken down

A YouTube channel that was the most viewed Canada-based news and politics account during much of the 2025 election has been removed for violating YouTube's policies on spam, deceptive practices and scams.

This Canadian pharmacist is key figure behind world's most notorious deepfake porn site

A joint international investigation by CBC News, Bellingcat and Danish outlets Politiken and Tjekdet has linked a Canadian pharmacist to one of the biggest website in the world for non-consensual, AI-generated pornography: MrDeepFakes.com.

The 'Brantford Boomer' is going viral — what really happened?

An image of a retired Liberal supporter flipping the double bird at a rally for Mark Carney in Brantford, Ont., has gone viral, with the man being dubbed "the Brantford Boomer." CBC's visual investigations team dug into social media footage to sort out the circumstances that led to the brief interaction.

Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count

Crowd sizes have become a discussion point in this election. The CBC News’s visual investigation unit looks at some of the images from those rallies to try to determine whether the reality fits with the campaigns' claims.
CBC Investigates

Fake election news ads are luring people into investment schemes. We got some taken down

Fake ads that purport to show CBC News articles are once more circulating online — with the end goal of convincing Canadians to sign up for sketchy investment schemes. The CBC’s Visual Investigations unit looks into how the ads have changed and what to watch out for.

Human rights investigators race to document Syria killings on social media

Hundreds of people have been killed amid armed clashes in Syria, with many of those deaths filmed and published on the internet. CBC’s visual investigations team has verified three of those deaths. The practice of publicizing killings is both shocking and an important tool for researchers, an expert says.
CBC Investigates

We logged every RCMP Black Hawk flight for 6 weeks. Here's what we found

CBC's visual investigative team tracked 68 flights by the RCMP's Black Hawk helicopters that were aimed at cracking down on illegal migration.
CBC Investigates

Fake CBC ads have flooded X with sketchy headlines. We looked for the source

X users have been subjected to a flood of ads that feature fake CBC headlines, leading to fake CBC-style articles. In the end, it’s part of an international investment scheme.