CBC Radio is the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches,all of which are outlined below.
CBC News:Sunday was a weekly television newsmagazine series in Canada,which aired on Sunday mornings on both CBC Newsworld and CBC Television. Hosted by Evan Solomon and Carole MacNeil,the program first went on the air in February 2002,offering exclusive and headline news,behind-the-scenes reports,in-depth interviews with world leaders and newsmakers.
Michael Wayne Dunahee is a Canadian missing child who disappeared from the playground at Blanshard Park Elementary School in Victoria,British Columbia,on March 24,1991,and has never been found or seen since. Michael was last seen that day around 12:30 pm at the playground as his mother Crystal Dunahee was participating in a women's football practice where his father was a spectator. Although he disappeared metres from his parents,no witnesses to his disappearance have ever been identified.
James Ford Seale was a Ku Klux Klan member charged by the U.S. Justice Department on January 24,2007,and subsequently convicted on June 14,2007,for the May 1964 kidnapping and murder of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore,two African-American young men in Meadville,Mississippi. At the time of his arrest,Seale worked at a lumber plant in Roxie,Mississippi. He also worked as a crop duster and was a police officer in Louisiana briefly in the 1970s. He was a member of the militant Klan organization known as the Silver Dollar Group,whose members were identified with a silver dollar;occasionally minted the year of the member's birth.
Mississippi Cold Case is a 2007 feature documentary produced by David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the Ku Klux Klan murders of two 19-year-old black men,Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore,in Southwest Mississippi in May 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom Summer. It also explores the 21st-century quest for justice by the brother of Moore. The documentary won numerous awards as a documentary and for its investigative journalism.
Kirsa Jensen was a 14-year-old girl who lived in Napier,New Zealand when she disappeared on 1 September 1983 while riding her horse,Commodore. She never returned home that night and has not been seen since. Her horse was found wandering near the Tutaekuri River but few traces of Jensen were ever discovered,and the case remains unsolved. Police believed that Jensen was abducted and murdered. The case is one of the few unsolved New Zealand murder mysteries and significant within a New Zealand context.
David Ridgen is an independent Canadian filmmaker born in Stratford,Ontario. He has worked for CBC Television,MSNBC,NPR,TVOntario and others. He is currently the writer,producer and host of CBC Radio’s true-crime podcast series,Someone Knows Something and The Next Call.
The Saskatoon freezing deaths involved Indigenous Canadians in and immediately outside Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,in the 1990s and early 2000s,and are suspected of being linked to actions by the members of the Saskatoon Police Service. The police officers would arrest Indigenous people,who were usually male,for alleged drunkenness and/or disorderly behaviour,sometimes without cause. The officers would then drive them to the outskirts of the city at night in the winter,and abandon them,leaving them stranded in sub-zero temperatures.
Dragons' Den is a Canadian television reality show based on the internationally franchised Dragons' Den format which began in Japan. The show debuted on October 3,2006,on CBC Television,and is hosted by Dianne Buckner. Aspiring Canadian entrepreneurs pitch business and investment ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hope of securing business financing and partnerships. The show also has a Quebec-only spin-off called Dans l'oeil du Dragon.
Jessica Lynn Heeringa was a 25-year-old woman from Norton Shores,Michigan,who disappeared in the Exxon gas station where she was working the late shift on April 26,2013.
Adrien McNaughton was a five-year-old Canadian boy who went missing on June 12,1972.
In the Dark is a podcast produced by American Public Media (APM),with episodes released between September 2016 and October 2020. Hosted and narrated by Madeleine Baran,and produced by Samara Freemark,the series featured investigative journalism and in-depth reportage from APM's investigative reporting and documentary unit,APM Reports. The series produced two full seasons,each focusing on a high-profile case and the actions and conduct in the policing or prosecuting of those cases —the kidnapping/murder of Jacob Wetterling and the quadruple homicide case for which Curtis Flowers was tried 6 times. A subsequent "Special Report" series,released in spring 2020,reported on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Mississippi Delta. The series was cancelled in May 2022 as part of APM's dissolving of APM Reports and "incorporating select programming elements" from the unit into its MPR News operation. In March 2023,In the Dark joined The New Yorker to produce and distribute the upcoming third season.
Up and Vanished is an investigative documentary-style podcast hosted by Payne Lindsey. The series investigates missing persons cold cases by reviewing old leads,interviewing witnesses and townspeople,and on-site investigation. The show is produced by Tenderfoot TV. The first season premiered on August 7,2016,and investigated the case of Tara Grinstead,a beauty queen and school teacher who disappeared in Ocilla,Georgia. Season 2 aired in August 2018 and focused on the disappearance of Kristal Reisinger in Crestone,Colorado. The podcast also prompted a television special on Oxygen that premiered on November 18,2018. The success of Up and Vanished has led to the creation of many other podcasts from Payne Lindsey,such as Atlanta Monster and Radio Rental.
Lisa Marie Young was a 21-year-old Indigenous Canadian who disappeared from Nanaimo,British Columbia,Canada on June 30,2002. She had attended a local nightclub and two house parties,before accepting a ride to a fast-food restaurant,from a man,Christopher William Adair,she and her friends met earlier at the club. Although Young has never been found,her disappearance is being investigated as a homicide.
The Fall Line is an American true crime podcast that covers lesser-known cases of murder and disappearance from minority communities in Georgia. As of January 2021,it is an independent podcast,after having been part of the Exactly Right Podcast Network for 2 years. The podcast has helped to publicize the disappearance of Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook,a cold case from Augusta,Georgia.
Donald Lee Izzett,Jr.,commonly referred to as "Donnie",has been missing since May 1995 under mysterious circumstances. A young man at the time,Izzett was traveling the country after being discharged from the military for being gay. His last known contact was a Mother's Day phone call between him and his mother,Debra Izzett Skelley,on May 14,1995. In June 2019,Pike County Police Department discovered human remains in McComb,Mississippi that may have connection to the Izzett case.
Melanie Nadia "Mel" Ethier is a Canadian teenager who disappeared in New Liskeard,Ontario,in 1996. As of 2024,Ethier's whereabouts and the circumstances of her disappearance remain unknown.
Tammy Lynn Lamondin-Gagnon was an Ojibwe woman who disappeared in Newmarket,Ontario in 1999. As of 2022,Lamondin-Gagnon's whereabouts and the circumstances of her disappearance remain unknown.
Pamela Jayne Holopainen was a young Inuk woman who disappeared in Timmins,Ontario,in 2003. As of 2022,her whereabouts and the circumstances of her disappearance remain unknown.
