30 years ago, the Stanley Cup playoffs ignited a rumor that has been messing with Jane Macdougall’s life ever since

2024

CREDIT: Reporter, Producer, Mixer

A maple syrup farmer is Canada's best sommelier. With his cowboy hat and three-piece suit, he heads to Paris to compete for the world title

2023

CREDIT: Host, Reporter, Producer, Mixer

500 years of colonization, as told through the story of one condo in Montreal

2021

CREDIT: Co-Host, Producer, Story Editor, Mixer

Danny Filippidis was on a ski trip with some friends in New York. Six days later, he turned up in California with no memory of how he got there

2019

CREDIT: Host, Producer

Close your eyes and think of a horse. You can probably picture it pretty easily. Tom Ebeyer can't—he has no mind’s eye. The inside of Tom’s mind tells a totally different story

2019

CREDIT: Co-Host, Producer, Story Editor, Mixer

When their lives are threatened, a lesbian couple use The Rainbow Railroad to get themselves to safety—and fast

2019

CREDIT: Host, Reporter, Producer, Mixer

From CBC News Podcasts, a six-part investigation into a DNA lab that consistently identified the wrong biological fathers

2024

CREDIT: Producer, Mixer

They needed certainty. They got chaos. For over a decade, countless people from at least five different countries put their trust in a company offering prenatal paternity tests. It promised clients “99.9% accuracy” — but then routinely, for over a decade, identified the wrong biological fathers.

Investigative journalists Jorge Barrera and Rachel Houlihan track down the people whose lives were torn apart by these bad results, the shattered families and acrimonious court cases that followed, and the story behind the company that continues to stand by its testing and is still operating today.

An investigative series from Canada’s National Observer, named one of Apple Canada’s Best Podcasts of 2022

2022

CREDIT: Story Editor

Off the coast of BC, wild salmon started dying by the millions. When a tour-boat operator showed up at her door with a bucket of sick fish, whale researcher Alexandra Morton decided to look into it. She never anticipated what would follow. In a desperate bid to save the Pacific wild salmon, she took on a 20-year battle against government, industry, and even an international spy organization.

A story like this should have been a hero’s tale. An Erin Brockovich moment. But it didn’t quite play out that way.

This podcast was reported and produced by Sandra Bartlett and distributed by Canada’s National Observer. It was an hournee for the 2023 Webby Awards and is a 2023 nominee for the CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism.

From The Doc Project: a three-part serialized podcast about a guy who has unfinished business with theatre pirates

2020

CREDIT: Story Editor, Development Editor

When shy theatre kid Trevor Campbell joins the anarchist stage company “Caravan," it's his first taste of freedom. It's all terribly romantic, as Trevor travels around the world on a tall ship with this ragtag family of performing pirates. But when U.S. government agents suddenly storm the ship, things go sideways. And Trevor has never quite righted himself since.

It's been five years and Trevor is stepping onto the ship again to tell the wild history of "Caravan"—a company at the cutting edge of Canada's avant-garde—and finally face what happened the night he fled.

Winner of the 2023 CWA Canada / CAJ Award for Excellence in Labour Reporting

2022

CREDIT: Story Editor, Host

At midnight on New Years Eve, 2022, the Highvale coal mine, operating since 1970, closed — taking hundreds of unionized jobs with it. Coal is the single biggest global contributor to climate change and Canada has committed to putting an end to coal-fired electricity by 2030. Kristin Nelson was there for the days leading up to mine’s closure, to find out what it takes to achieve a “just transition” away from coal… and what’s at stake if we don’t get it right?

This episode is a 2023 nominee for the CJF Award for Climate Solutions Reporting.

A paradigm shifting documentary from the award-winning Cited podcast

2020

CREDIT: Story Editor

A revolutionary group of scientists are challenging the 500-year-old paradigm that guides how regulators evaluate our exposure to chemicals. These scientists argue that some chemicals behave in erratic and unpredictable ways, and they can mess with us even at miniscule doses.

If they’re right, then the chemicals around us are causing irreparable harm, and everything must change.

Featured presentation and finalist for the Skylarking Award at the 2019 Third Coast International Audio Festival

2019

CREDIT: Co-Creator, Story Editor, Host

It was a warm summer’s day when Tom Howell walked into a store, drawn to a sign that said "Turkish towels have arrived at last!!!" Tom didn't know what a Turkish towel was. $250 later, he's still scratching his head over the thin, trendy towels — especially when confronted with his fiancée's insistence that they don't actually dry you. But Tom is irrevocably attached to his peshtemals, and to their charismatic salesman. So much so, that he breaks into song.

CBC's home for investigative and innovative audio documentaries

2022 - Present

CREDIT: Producer, Story Editor

The CBC Audio Doc Unit is dedicated to making current affairs documentaries — stories that Canadians need to know about. We take listeners deep inside the stories unfolding right now, and invest time in enterprise storytelling. Our goal is to always surprise and delight listeners with new ways of thinking about our world and the people who live here.

Our team also supports producers from across the network to bring exciting and enticing docs to listeners. By collaborating with producers and reporters from across our country, we aim to reflect the diversity of our country's people and issues.

Our docs air on The Current, Sunday Magazine, The House, What On Earth and Helluva Story.

One story, well told, every week, from the award-winning team at the CBC Audio Doc Unit

2023 - 2024

CREDIT: Creator, Showrunner, Producer

A weekly documentary show for people who love narrative podcasts. Stories you can’t stop thinking about. That you’ll tell your friends about. And that will help you understand what’s going on in Canada, and why.

Every week a journalist follows one story, meets the people at its centre, and makes it make sense. Sometimes it’s about people living out the headlines in real life. Sometimes it’s about someone you’ve never heard of, living through something you had no idea was happening. Either way, you’ll go somewhere, meet someone, get the context, and learn something new. (Plus it sounds really good. Mixed like a movie.)

This is your news told narratively, from the award-winning team at the CBC Audio Doc Unit.

CBC’s beloved and critically acclaimed longform narrative show

2016 - 2022

CREDIT: Host, Producer, Story Editor, Mixer

For six years The Doc Project was the home of longform storytelling in Canada. Heard by more than 1 million people every week, this award-winning public radio show was broadcast across Canada on CBC Radio, internationally on select NPR stations, and downloaded by thousands of podcast listeners. Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it featured documentaries, first-person stories, essays, memoirs, and music, with episodes that criss-crossed the country.

Cited Media’s award-winning documentary podcast about the politics of science and expertise

2020

CREDIT: Story Editor

Experts shape our world. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. In every big story, you’ll find one; you’ll find a researcher, scientist, engineer, planner, policy wonk, data nerd, bureaucrat, regulator, intellectual, or pseudo-intellectual. Their ideas are often opaque, unrecognized, and difficult to understand. Some of them like it that way. On Cited, we reveal their hidden stories.

CBC’s self-help and storytelling show

2015 - 2016

CREDIT: Producer, Development Producer

This national, weekly show leaps into the action with people looking to make things happen. Sometimes things go right. Sometimes they go off the rails. Either way, Now or Never nudges you to make a change, big or small. Every episode, hosts Ify Chiwetelu and Trevor Dineen take on a different theme, from re-connecting with a lost love, to re-defining your relationship with money. If you’re looking to make a change, it’s Now or Never.

CBC's long-running, trail-blazing, storytelling show based around weekly themes, hosted by Sook-Yin Lee

2013 - 2015

CREDIT: Producer, Backfill Host

Every Saturday, DNTO invites you to make discoveries about who we are - flawed, funny, and beautiful - one story at a time. On Tuesdays, Your DNTO blends the best of DNTO with your stories.

On air for more than 20 years, DNTO was a Canadian cultural touchstone.