Claude Adams

Producer

Author Archives

• Man who abducted his 4 kids, brought them to Iran, says he was escaping ‘Canadian nightmare’

  Saren Azer’s story is one that has blazed through social media in Canada for 9 months. Now, in an exclusive interview with Global News, he says he and his kids were escaping a “nightmare.”

  Canada

  May 18, 2016
• Fatigue on the rails: a trainman’s nightmare

  Unpredictable schedules are the bane of the rail industry, say the men and the women who drive the trains. And those schedules can play havoc with their sleep cycles.

  Canada

  Apr 1, 2016
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• The lost men: four years later

  Victims of a deadly mill explosion hold the government to account.

  Canada

  Mar 18, 2016
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• John Sopko’s war: The watchdog of waste

  History will note that Afghanistan was the longest, and one of the most expensive, wars in modern history.

  World

  Dec 11, 2015
• Losing Afghanistan: Kabul Diary

  16x9 producer Claude Adams spent over a week in Afghanistan filming our feature “Losing Afghanistan”. Here, he documents some of his experiences in Kabul.

  World

  Dec 10, 2015
• Leaving war behind: The odyssey of Sayid and Amira

  So far this year, more than 500,000 men, women and children have made the trek along the so-called Balkan Route on their way to what they hope is a new life, and safe haven, in Northern Europe.

  World

  Nov 12, 2015
• Animating a troubled life… and death

  16x9 used animation to portray the troubled life and death of Paige Gauchier.

  Oct 23, 2015
• Paige’s story: In search of a name

  When the report entitled “Paige’s Story” came out last May, it galvanized a province—a story so profoundly depressing you can’t read it without flinching.

  Canada

  Oct 21, 2015
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• UPDATE: A fugitive for 10 years, wife of slain Canadian millionaire to face trial

  Aurea Vazquez Rios, charged in the murder of Adam Anhang, a millionaire Canadian entrepreneur, has been returned to her native Puerto Rico to face trial.

  Sep 25, 2015
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• UPDATE: A victory against suicide profiling

  A Toronto woman who was denied access to the United States when border agents learned of a suicide attempt in her past, is pleased that this may no longer happen to Canadian travelers in the future.

  Aug 19, 2015
• Claims of cruel and unusual detention

  The International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto, released a recent report saying detainees held for immigration reasons are treated as “something less than human” in provincial jails.

  Jun 23, 2015
• Privacy of suicide attempts to be respected

  People in Toronto with mental health issues who have non-criminal encounters with police, such as attempted suicide, will not have that information released to anyone asking for background checks, effective this week.

  May 29, 2015
• A world of echoes: Canadian research into how the blind use sound to see

  Daniel Kish is a walking phenomenon, a blind man who uses echolocation for sight.The practice has become the subject of ground-breaking research at an Ontario university — and has caught the attention of scientists around the world.

  Canada

  Apr 16, 2015
• The endless pain of unexplained loss: MH370 one year later

  The aviation mystery of the ages is about to enter its second year. The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 never really stopped. And there’s no end in sight.

  World

  Mar 4, 2015
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• Not wanted in Canada: How the CBSA deals with some ‘inadmissibles’

  Michael, an African man in his mid-50s, is one of hundreds being detained in a cell. He has been locked up for 8 ½ years, in conditions he calls “horrible."

  Canada

  Feb 18, 2015
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• UPDATE: DNA index for the missing gets royal assent

  Judy Peterson’s decade-long campaign for a national DNA-based Missing Persons Index has finally succeeded, with royal assent for what is widely known as Lindsey’s Law.

  Jan 20, 2015
• ‘Deadly Mill’ re-opens for business

  A Prince George, B.C, sawmill that was flattened by an explosion in 2012, killing two workers, resumes operation today—a event met with mixed feelings by survivors, and the families of the men who died.

  Dec 8, 2014
• What happens to your body when you use heroin?

  Even though it creates a “high,” heroin is sometimes called “down” because it’s a depressant, like alcohol. What’s happening inside the body is complex.

  Health

  Nov 21, 2014
• African grandmothers filling in for a lost generation

  AIDS has killed 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, and left more than 15 million orphans. The task of raising those children has fallen largely on grandmothers.

  Health

  Nov 20, 2014
• 16×9: Life at the end of the needle

  120 Vancouver-area addicts are waiting for the first batch of Pharma Heroin to arrive from Switzerland as part of a supervised heroin maintenance program.

  Nov 19, 2014
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• UPDATE: Company appeals fine in deadly sawmill blast

  The owners of a Prince George sawmill destroyed in a deadly 2012 explosion have appealed a $724,000 penalty levied against them by a BC government agency.

  Nov 1, 2014
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• The great disappearance of the passenger pigeon – and a comeback?

  The passenger pigeons were masters of the sky. They made up nearly 40% of North America’s entire bird population. But a half century later they were gone.

  Oct 24, 2014
• Can DNA sequencing bring extinct species back to life?

  Ben Novak’s life work is the passenger pigeon – an extinct bird he hopes to “resurrect” by sequencing its DNA.

  Canada

  Oct 23, 2014
• 16×9: Putting a name to human remains

  A database model used in B.C. could be instrumental in solving dozens, even hundreds, of missing persons cases in Canada.

  Consumer

  Oct 16, 2014
• How a beetle outbreak may have caused two sawmill explosions in B.C.

  If you’re looking for the cause of the sawmill explosions that killed four workers and injured dozens more in 2012, the beetle is a good place to start.

  Oct 10, 2014