Giant - Murder Underground

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Enter one of the most bitter labour disputes in Canadian history. The plan to extract the last gold from a once booming mine in Canada’s North pits a shrewd new president against an increasingly agitated workforce in a clash that divides a city, and descends in to violence and murder. Host Rachel Zelniker lays bare the lingering impact and hard lessons when a conflict spirals out of control.

2022-09-21

Episode 1 - Money Place

How did Canada’s deadliest labour dispute begin? By the 1990s the once-booming ‘Giant’ Gold Mine in Yellowknife is nearing the end of its lifespan. It’s bought by an ambitious American woman named Peggy Witte who is determined to make a profit with what remains — but the union’s convinced she’s out to bust them.

37 min
2022-09-20

Episode 2 - The Lockout

The hostility between the union and the company boils over when union members vote to go on strike, but are locked out by the company first. Peggy Witte brings in replacement workers, infuriating strikers who resort to escalating levels of violence, that spills into the city.

41 min
2022-09-19

Episode 3 - The Explosion

On September 18th, 1992, nine men showed up for work at Giant Mine, but never made it out. Grief and anger spread throughout the city as investigators try to piece together how a fatal explosion happened underground.

31 min
2022-09-18

Episode 4 - The Investigation

Police begin what still stands as one of the most labour intensive murder investigations in RCMP history. Investigators hone in on two suspects. Union members believe the police are on the side of the company and unfairly targeting them.

48 min
2022-09-17

Episode 5 - The Interrogation

The RCMP make a huge breakthrough when outside polygraph expert Greg McMartin suspects an overlooked miner set the blast. McMartin flies to Yellowknife to interview the man face-to-face, convinced he’ll be sharing the room with a murderer.

36 min
2022-09-16

Episode 6 - Judgement

With a murder suspect in jail, and two of the unions top agitators also behind bars, the table is set for the Canada Labour Relations Board to bring an end to this increasingly hostile labour dispute. Community members long for a return to normal, but hanging over everyone’s head is a murder trial.

39 min
2022-09-15

Episode 7 - The Fallout

Thirty years have passed since the labour dispute and explosion at Giant Mine but the feelings from that time are not far from the surface, and some still question whether enough has been learned to prevent it from happening again.

28 min
2022-09-12

Introducing Giant

Enter one of the most bitter labour disputes in Canadian history. On September 18, 1992, nine workers crossed the picket line at the ‘Giant’ Gold Mine in Yellowknife. Minutes later all were killed in a horrific explosion. This 7 episode series explores the lingering impact on a divided city and asks: how does a labour dispute spiral in to murder?

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Introducing Giant

Enter one of the most bitter labour disputes in Canadian history. On September 18, 1992, nine workers crossed the picket line at the ‘Giant’ Gold Mine in Yellowknife. Minutes later all were killed in a horrific explosion. This 7 episode series explores the lingering impact on a divided city and asks: how does a labour dispute spiral in to murder?

2022-09-12

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49 Ratings

Nothing to do with Race

2023-12-25

Yellowknife3

An individual slammed the podcast because it didn’t include effects of Giant on Dene people. They missed the point of this story and what it was about. Very well done cast.
Well curated Canadian history

2022-12-11

Wetback499

A story most of us never knew or long ago forgot brought back to life with excellent storytelling, music and insight. This is a must listen for everyone!!
Well done

2022-09-26

AndreaET

I read The Third Suspect many years ago so was familiar with this story. I really enjoyed the podcast. It is a well done telling of a significant event in Canada’s past.
Not Canadian

2022-09-25

jodoin1425

Yet another spotlight on Misogynist, Classist, Bigoted, White, Rich, Settler men who are willing to commit murder in order to pay the bills on their lifted custom pickup trucks. Nobody at all cares about these pathetic people who have NEVER made a resume and attended job interviews. Waste of our damn time, again. They don't even interview a single indigenous person to learn about the effect that this Selfish project has had on the Yellowknife's Dene and others. This is literally a drama show with rich white men as the main characters. (Nobody cares if they are not rich now, they should have sold the boats/rv's in their driveways before they got all rusted.)

Enter one of the most bitter labour disputes in Canadian history. The plan to extract the last gold from a once booming mine in Canada’s North pits a shrewd new president against an increasingly agitated workforce in a clash that divides a city, and descends in to violence and murder. Host Rachel Zelniker lays bare the lingering impact and hard lessons when a conflict spirals out of control.