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Friday, June 02, 2023

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The Rise of the Murdoch Empire: Kingmaker

 
If you like Succession, might we suggest the first of this three-part doc series? It’s full of ambition, dysfunction, criminality and a personal battle for power within the Murdoch family (hmmm, sound familiar?)
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A person in Indigenous regalia stands beside their horse, who wears a matching face mask. They stand in front of a crowd. Text:
 

Fast Horse

 
This is Indian Relay, where jockeys ride horses bareback and jump from one horse to another in the middle of the race.
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UFO Town

In the ‘90s, a VHS tape emerged and, with it, a claim that a UFO had crashed in a field near Ottawa. A former teen UFO investigator returns decades later to find out what people saw there
Watch on Gem
 
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Koto: The Last Service

After nearly 40 years, the family-run Koto Japanese Restaurant in Campbell River, B.C. is closing. Over the course of its last day, the community says goodbye.
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A harp seal pup sleeping on snow.

Harp seal pups get real fat — real fast

Drinking their mothers' fatty milk, they put on two kilograms a day.
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12 can't-miss films on Indigenous life in Canada

June is Indigenous History Month, and CBC Gem has dozens of free programs that explore the history of the First Peoples of this land.

CBC News launches an interactive climate dashboard

The data comes from the Meteorological Service of Canada and the dashboard displays real-time weather information for 490 locations.

Scenes from a prison farm: these inmates raise cattle, grow vegetables, make maple syrup and keep bees

Ontario’s prison farm program was revitalized in 2019, and farm work and rehabilitation go hand-in-hand.

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