Pretendians | Canadaland Investigates

The highest homicide and hate crime rates in the country. A mayor charged with extortion. A police chief who faced trial for obstruction of justice. Nine tragic deaths of Indigenous high schoolers. Why does it all happen here?   Thunder Bay debuts on October 22, 2018.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Locals call it Murder Bay.It might be the most dangerous city for Indigenous youth in the world. But to others, it's their white nirvana.Host Ryan McMahon wants to know - not who killed all those kids, but what killed them. This is Thunder Bay. Support us here: canadaland.com/join.

A dark, grainy, cellphone video leads to criminal charges against the mayor, his wife, the chief of police, and a multimillionaire lawyer turned convicted sex offender, whose wife disappeared years ago.Support us here: canadaland.com/join.

Nine teenagers died. There is evidence of foul play. There are suspects. There are motives. There have even been confessions. But nobody has ever been charged. In a town with no consequences, it will happen again. Support us here: canadaland.com/join.

Agnew Johnston was a lawyer who represented the state against criminals. But he was a criminal himself, paying underage girls for sex. His defence? Everybody in Thunder Bay is doing it, so why are you picking on me? The story of a case that implicated Thunder Bay's elite. Support us here: canadaland.com/join.

What if Thunder Bay isn't broken?What if it's working just as it's supposed to?Support us here: canadaland.com/join.

New stories from Thunder Bay. Coming November, 2020.Original artwork by Blake Angeconeb and Michah Dowbak.Support us at canadaland.com/join.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s infamous as the homicide and hate crime capital of Canada. And now, Thunder Bay has been officially diagnosed as racist. But so what? Does knowing this mean that anything will change?Welcome to Canada's first post-truth town.Support us here: canadaland.com/join.

When a system is broken, you can work outside of it to create something new, or you can try to change it from within. But what happens when you need the system?Support us here: canadaland.com/join.This episode is brought to you by Missing From the Village and HelloFresh. Additional music by AudioNetwork.CORRECTION: An earlier edit of this episode presented an incomplete criticism of the editorial focus of CBC Thunder Bay. Apologies to Michael Dick and his team for this oversight.