A documentary series featuring men and women who are passionate about their mission to make justice more human, more accessible, more streamlined and less costly. Every day, they have to deal with harrowing drama, repulsive crimes and urgent situations.
Explores the scientific, social, economic and environmental consequences of supposedly time-saving inventions, ideas and objects. Throughout a lifetime, the minutes that are actually lost or saved can add up to days, weeks, months or even years.
Advances in forensic sciences have led to the resolution of complex cases thanks to microscopic clues. The documentary series Police Scientifique analyses crimes committed in Quebec, which were solved thanks to science and new police techniques. Experts and detectives recount how they reconstituted the circumstances of various murders, by using ballistics, toxicology, chemistry, physics, biology and even entomology. These testimonies come with those of the victim’s loved ones, along with realistic constitutions that put the scale of these tragic events in images.
The daily lives of the men and women who sail the hazardous waters of Quebec’s main waterway. Be they towing, escorting, repairing, dredging or cruising, workers have to pull complex manoeuvres in ports and on cargo ships. At the wheel of powerful tug boats, captains, navigators, mechanics and sailors have to make one of the most dangerous waterways in the world safe for sailing.
Explores the reality of private investigators by revisiting some of their investigations. Told by the detectives themselves, these stories show their daily work and reveals the highs and lows of an investigation.
This series follows the hectic and often unpredictable daily life of Quebec’s trash collectors. From dawn to dusk, these heroes of the trash world criss-cross the streets of the city to pick up as much as 25 tons of trash a day. These people often work in hard conditions and under extreme weather. They work non-stop, despite the numerous aches and injuries, to keep up with the schedule. ÉBOUEURS reveals the many aspects of this often undervalued but essential profession, and tells the stories of those who often work in the shadows.
They invade people’s homes without asking, reproduce at a dizzying speed and infest the living spaces until they drive the occupants mad. The Leavey family, who work as exterminators, have been answering calls for help for 35 years.
The Vanderzon family has been working in snow removal since the 1950s. Three generations later, the sons, grandsons and cousins are still clearing streets and driveways in and around Boucherville for institutional, commercial and individual clients.