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This alleged pyramid scheme targets Filipino migrant workers, promising a life in Canada
Former clients and employees allege that Vancouver-based company PLC Global operated a pyramid scheme to scam foreigners looking for jobs in Canada — putting migrant workers in a situation one lawyer likened to "modern-day slavery."
Aloysius Wong
News Investigates May 12
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Dealership told him low mileage was due to single owner — but it was actually odometer fraud
Erica Johnson
News Go Public May 12
CBC Investigates
58 pairs of Manolo Blahniks among hundreds of items seized at lawyer couple's home amid fraud probe
Zach Dubinsky
News Investigates May 10
Turned away, then jailed, family makes third attempt to enter Canada
Jorge Barrera
News Canada May 10
CBC Investigates
These former farm workers won a standards case in B.C. They told CBC about their working conditions
Tara Carman
News Canada May 2
This campaign raised $57K to repatriate a 'loving mother' killed in Lapu-Lapu festival tragedy. It was fake
Aloysius Wong
News Investigates May 1
Who's hacking CRA accounts? The Fifth Estate tracks down alleged imposters who duped the tax collector
News Canada April 17

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THE FIFTH ESTATE

CRA accounts hacked after 28,000 social insurance numbers stolen in data breach

News Canada April 15

Shut out of medical school, he blames controversial admissions test which experts say lacks evidence

News Go Public April 14

PC Optimum reward program locks man out of account worth $43K without warning or explanation

Rosa Marchitelli

News Go Public April 7

CBC Investigates

Panama Papers leak has led to nearly $2B in recouped taxes for governments

News Business April 4

Ontario judge condemns WestJet's attempt to include gag order in settlement offer

News Go Public April 2

CBC Investigates

Agnes Benn's death and the hidden history of Birtle residential school's predatory principal

News Canada April 2

CBC Investigates

Director Norman Jewison's wife cut him off from family, coerced him to change $30M will, lawsuits claimed

News Entertainment April 1

THE FIFTH ESTATE

Alberta teen exploited by extremist network says RCMP only spoke to her after FBI reached out

News fifth March 20

CBC Investigates

'Rising problem' of ghost consultancies hits man who lost $12K trying to get Canadian visa for wife

News Canada Windsor March 19

THE FIFTH ESTATE

Sonya Cywink's murder in 1994 remains unsolved, but her sister's quest for the truth persists

News fifth March 14

Parents say Snapchat makes it easy for drug dealers to sell to their kids

News Go Public March 8

Hyundai owners say the paint on their white cars is flaking off

News Go Public March 8

Decades after getting a child-care bursary from Ontario, this woman was told to pay it back

News Go Public March 8

Hey, parents: Advertisers could be using mobile games to build profiles about your kids

News Marketplace March 7

CBC Investigates

Canadian teen recruited to spy for Russia, now sitting in Polish jail

Jonathon Gatehouse

News Canada March 6

Call-centre crypto scammers unmasked as data leak exposes their schemes

Frédéric Zalac

News Investigates March 6

ANALYSIS — FIFTH ESTATE

From old grievances to new allies: Trump's history with tariffs

Grant LaFleche, Laurence Mathieu-Léger, Ioanna Roumeliotis, Matthew Pierce

News Canada February 28

THE FIFTH ESTATE

Authorities in India question suspect in Pearson gold heist following Fifth Estate investigation

Steven D'Souza, Timothy Sawa, Andrew Culbert

News Canada Toronto February 21

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