Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

<p>Willie Blackwater is just 13 when he holds a knife to his rapist's throat, demanding an end to his recurring abuse. It’s the first time Willie stands up to his residential school supervisor, but it’s far from the last. Years later, after a fateful encounter with a cop, Willie decides to break his silence — joining a group of survivors that help convict Arthur Henry Plint of 18 counts of sexual assault.&nbsp;But for Willie and his friends, it’s not enough. And a risky idea starts to form. Can they take on the architects of the residential school system?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Host of <strong>See You in Court</strong>, Falen Johnson and journalist Jackie McKay meet the man behind Blackwater vs. Plint, one of the first court cases where residential school survivors took their abuser to court, eventually paving a legal path for thousands of other Indigenous children forced to attend these schools. This episode is part one, episode two can be found here.</p><p><br></p><p>The stories behind the legal battles that changed Canada — and the unlikely people who made it happen. Some were sh*t disturbers, some were convicts, and some were just regular folks dragged into a fight. Each week, <strong>See You in Court</strong> digs into a case that challenged the status quo, and asks: what kind of person takes on the law? What are the costs? And what would our lives look like if these cases never happened? Because let's be real, just because a case is closed doesn't mean the story’s over. More episodes of See You in Court are available here:&nbsp;<a href="https://link.mgln.ai/SYICS2xMM" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://link.mgln.ai/SYICS2xMM</a>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Someone Knows Something is the investigative true crime series by award-winning documentarian David Ridgen.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In Season 10 of Someone Knows Something, host David Ridgen investigates the sudden 2021 disappearance of Jaclyn Ferland-Smith, a Canadian expat living in Playas del Coco, a paradise veiled in rumour and fear on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.</p><p><br></p><p>More episodes of Someone Knows Something are available wherever you get your podcasts, and here: <a href="https://link.mgln.ai/SKS10xMandM" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://link.mgln.ai/SKS10xMandM</a></p>

<p>Rock star Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies is doing rock star things — like buying paintings. And what better painting for an iconic Canadian rocker to buy than one by Norval Morrisseau, one of the most iconic Indigenous artists in Canada? But when Kevin’s Morrisseau painting is featured in an exhibit, it gets taken down because the head curator says it’s “questionable.” Kevin tries to get some answers but every answer leads to more questions. Host Adrian Stimson traces Kevin’s dogged quest to find out the truth about his painting — and learns how this one painting is the key to cracking a whole underworld open. Forged is a six-part series, from CBC in Canada and ABC Australia, host Adrian Stimson, an artist from the Siksika Nation, travels from Thunder Bay to the Northern Territory of Australia, to reveal what's believed to be the largest art crime fraud in the world. More episodes of Forged are available here:&nbsp;<a href="https://link.mgln.ai/ForgedxMM" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://link.mgln.ai/ForgedxMM</a></p>

<p>The stories behind the legal battles that changed Canada — and the unlikely people who made it happen. Some were sh*t disturbers, some were convicts, and some were just regular folks dragged into a fight. Each week on See You in Court, host Falen Johnson teams up with a journalist to dig into a case that challenged the status quo, and asks: what kind of person takes on the law? What are the costs? And what would our lives look like if these cases never happened? Because let's be real, just because a case is closed doesn't mean the story’s over. More episodes of See You in Court are available here:&nbsp;<a href="https://link.mgln.ai/syic-mm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://link.mgln.ai/syic-mm</a></p>

<p>Even though it was supposed to have been destroyed in 1983, the police file documenting the investigation into Cleo’s death still exists and it contains more detail than Christine ever imagined learning about the last days, hours and even minutes of Cleo’s short life. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/missing-murdered-season-2-finding-cleo-transcripts-listen-1.6733352</p>