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Search results for "CBC" ...
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Scout's Honor
An investigation of the issue of sexual abuse inside Boy Scouts organizations both in Canada and the United States. CBC News and The LA Times uncovered that nearly 80 Boy Scout leaders have been convicted of sex related crimes since the 1950s.
Tags: Sexual Abuse; Boy Scouts; CBC News; The Los Angeles Times; 1950s
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Scout's Honour
This investigation's goal was to look into the issue of sexual abuse inside Boy Scout organizations in both Canada and the US by exploring one particular case that touched both sides of the border. the CBC and LA Times teamed up for a 10-month record search which resulted in many findings.
Tags: Boy Scouts; CBC; LA Times; child abuse; broadcast
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Solving A 1964 Cold Case: Mystery of Frank Morris
This investigation, partnered with the Concordia Sentinel, CBC Radio and NPR digs into the cold case of Frank Morris, thought to be murdered by Ku Klux Klan members, all for refusing to work on a deputy sheriff's cowboy boots.
Tags: Cold case project; KKK; multimedia
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TAMIFLU-The Backstory of a Blockbuster
This collaborative investigation between RSI (Swiss Italian Television) and CBC/Radio-Canada looks at how a "drug that reduces flu symptoms' duration by only one day can become a 10 billion dollar blockbuster stockpiled by governments around the world"
Tags: TAMIflu; broadcast; international; pandemic
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"Ethiopian adoptions: Learning the Truth"
This investigation by CBC-Radio found that Ethiopian children who were being adopted by Canadian family were not in fact orphans. Detectives found that the children still had families in Ethiopia and that the Canadian adoption agency based in country were "convincing Ethiopian mothers to put their kids up for adoption."
Tags: Canadian Advocates For The Adoption of Children, CAFAC; Manitoban adoption agency; Ethiopia; orphanage
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The Taser Test
No authorities properly tested Tasers in Canada, so CBC/Radio-Canada undertook what became the largest independent testing of Tasers ever. National Technical Services tested the Tasers and found more than 10 percent of the those tested were either defective or significantly off specifications.
Tags: Taser; stun gun; police; laboratory; testing; weapon; Taser International
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Putting Tasers to the Test
CBC obtained more than 4,000 Taser-use reports from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), created a database to analyze data and found that the RCMP's taser use was on the rise. The stories highlighted the recurrence of similar themes: abuse of force; a weapon increasingly used on vulnerable people; a pattern of multiple firings of the stun gun on a suspect when police regulations call for minimal use; and Canada's national police force, the largest in Canada, bent on suppressing data detailing how its officers use the weapons.
Tags: police behavior; taser;
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Seniors and Drugs: Prescribed to Death
CBC investigated the drugs that as many as 1.5 million Canadian seniors are taking. These drugs, such as Ativan and Amiodarone, have been found to be dangerous for seniors. These drugs are listed on a peer-reviewed list called BEERS in the U.S., but not in Canada. The major finding of this investigation was that one out of twenty deaths among seniors that were ascribed to adverse drug reactions involved a drug on the BEERS list.
Tags: Health; Canada; BEERS; benzodiazepines; antiarrhythmic agents; prescription drugs; geriatrics
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Faint Warning
This project by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation revealed that as many as 10,000 Canadians were dying as a result of allergic reactions to certain drugs. They found that steps taken by the government to identify some of the dangerous side-effects was inadequate. CBC appealed under the Access to Information law to get access to 37 years of adverse drug reaction reports. CAR specialists and reporters worked on this database to identify weaknesses in the system and then identified people who had been affected.
Tags: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; CBC; allergic reactions to drugs; CAR; dangerous side-effects of drugs; Access to Information law; FOIA
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Kaboom, Kaboom Again, News story
The Canadian hockey association had dropped a 20 year ban on body checking in hockey. This would have affected quite a few children. Since this had to do with serious injuries CBC's Mark Kelley investigated this issue. The ban was lifted after university studies Cconcluded that leagues that did not ban body checking also had a high spate of injuries. Mark Kelley's investigations proved that these studies were indeed wrong and challenged the lifting of the ban.
Tags: ban on body checking; university studied proved false; university studies proved wrong; ice hockey; hockey; Canadian hockey; sports injuries