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Evil By Design

CBC

More than 80 women from around the world have accused the fast-fashion mogul Peter Nygard of rape, sexual assault and human trafficking in incidents across four decades and at least four cou...

Episodes

13 episodes

Evil By Design Introduces: The Mile Zero Murders from Uncover

The Mile Zero Murders investigates the baffling wave of disappearances and murders in the small town of Dawson Creek, B.C., a community stru...

00:27:58Aug 10, 2026

Evil By Design Introduces: Artificial Intimacy

What happens when a human becomes intimately enmeshed with a chatbot? From people who’ve married their bots or who grieve their loved ones w...

00:37:06May 26, 2026

Evil By Design Introduces: Deepfake Porn Empire

Deepfake porn is a billion-click industry built on stolen faces, while the people making it hide theirs behind screens. Hosted by journalist...

00:38:36Feb 24, 2026

Episode 9: Nothing Sticks

New criminal charges have been laid against Peter Nygard. New survivors have come forward. And much older allegations have surfaced. But for...

00:40:02Mar 10, 2022

Episode 8: The Enablers

Nygard now sits in a Manitoba jail cell, awaiting extradition and a possible criminal trial. But what of the many others who have been accus...

00:54:36Mar 8, 2021

Episode 7: Flesh and Blood

Once thought to be the heir to the international clothing empire, he is now a fierce defender of his father’s accusers. Meet Peter Nygard’s...

00:52:36Mar 2, 2021

Episode 6: 'Peter Says Hi'

Surveillance, threats, and criminal prosecutions. Host Timothy Sawa saw, up close, the extreme lengths that Peter Nygard and his associates...

00:41:14Feb 22, 2021

Episode 5: ‘It’s always been known in Winnipeg’

Journalists have been trying to report on the allegations against Peter Nygard for decades now. How has so much been kept so quiet for so lo...

00:41:44Feb 16, 2021

Episode 4: ‘A Thursday Night in November’

It didn’t just happen at Nygard Cay; it wasn’t just in the Bahamas. There are sexual assault allegations against Nygard that date back more...

00:48:51Feb 8, 2021

Episode 3: Richette

If girls and women had been abused at Nygard Cay, Richette Ross would be key in exposing those secrets. The former employee tells us what sh...

00:50:57Feb 1, 2021

Episode 2: Carte Blanche

Who is Peter Nygard? The son of Finnish immigrants to Canada, he rose to become boss of an eponymous fashion label that once boasted hundred...

00:37:41Jan 27, 2021

Episode 1: The Jane Does

The world would not be talking about ‘Peter Nygard, the predator’ if it weren’t for a group of ten mostly Bahamian girls and young women who...

00:46:06Jan 25, 2021

Trailer: Evil By Design

Canadian fashion retail mogul Peter Nygard was arrested on Dec. 14 in Winnipeg, and is in custody facing extradition to the United States. H...

00:03:21Jan 11, 2021