Back Story

Back Story

CBC News correspondents take you behind the scenes as they cover the biggest events around the world. Personal stories from our reporters who were there while the story was breaking.

Episodes

September 7, 2020 32 mins

The 1950s & 60s saw a wave of radical movements. Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution. The Black Panthers. Quebec and Canada had the FLQ — a showdown that dissolved into crisis. By October 1970, there were soldiers in the streets, communities on edge, kidnapping and terror in the headlines. But those frightening weeks were just the crescendo of a wave of terror and violence that was nearly a decade in the making. This series wi...

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Mark Tewksbury on gold medals and gay athletes.
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From a childhood accident to a Paralympic champion, and one of Canada's most decorated athletes.
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Inside the Munich Massacre and one of the worst terrorist attacks in Olympic history.
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Keith Boag is there as tempers flare and tear gas flies in Ferguson, Missouri over the killing of an unarmed black teenager.
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The champ. The great one. Mark Lee's Back Story on his exclusive interview with Muhammad Ali.
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Heartbreak, a questionable call and what some call a stolen game. Canada's longest serving female soccer player takes you back to the field and the London 2012 Olympics.
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Adrienne Arsenault travels to Nepal in the wake of the worst earthquake that country has seen in more than 80 years.
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Scott Russell's Back Story on the Ben Johnson doping scandal and the dirtiest race in history.
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The photo seen around the world, and the family left mourning. From Istanbul, Gillian Findlay's Back Story "The boy on the beach".
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January 3, 2016 10 mins
After spending more than 400 days in an Egyptian prison, this is Mohamed Fahmy's Back Story.
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Steven D'Souza was there as thousands cheered, white smoke bellowed and a new pope was chosen.
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Connie Walker has reported extensively on Canada's residential schools, but she's also seen the effects on her family first hand.
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In 1986, Carol Off sold most of her belongings to buy a plane ticket to Pakistan with the hope of interviewing future Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. A hijacking, an uprising and a reunion decades later, this is Carol's Back Story.
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As coalition troops marched into Iraq, and Saddam Hussein fell from power, the CBC's David Common was there.
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From his first mandate as Prime Minister to his party's devastating loss in the last federal election, Susan Lunn gives you an inside look at the rise and fall of Stephen Harper.
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The earthquake in Haiti killed thousands of people, turned buildings to rubble and made David Gutnick question the role of a journalist.
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Peter Mansbridge takes you inside the tunnels at Vimy Ridge.
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The BP oil spill is the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. The CBC's Paul Hunter was there when black tar balls started dotting white sandy beaches. He returned five years later and shares what he saw.
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Nahlah Ayed was on the front lines of the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War.
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