W5 is a Canadian news magazine television program that was produced by CTV News . The program was broadcast on CTV , with repeat broadcasts on CTV 2 , CTV News Channel , and Investigation Discovery . The program also aired in a radio simulcast on CFRB in Toronto.
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88-755: A Michener Award ), an investigation of abuses at the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children ("The Throwaway Children"), an annual expose of used car dealer trickery, rampant corruption in Canada's immigration system, and personal stories of burn recovery from the Bali bombing . Since 2000, the program had officially been designated a " documentary series", with only one or two segments filling an hour-long episode, due to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission regulations that count documentaries, but not older-style newsmagazines, as " priority programming ". In
132-840: A British helicopter from 1938 Wittman W-5 Buttercup , a 1938 aircraft London bus route W5 Roewe W5 , a Chinese car W5 series of road signs in the United States W5, a station of the Hiroden Hakushima Line in Hiroshima, Japan W5, IATA airline code for Mahan Air W5 tram , a class of electric trams built by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board W5, station code for Hamilton E. Holmes station Other uses [ edit ] Five Ws : Who? What? When? Where? and Why? "Which Was What Was Wanted", an alternative to Q.E.D. W5, part of Odyssey Complex ,
176-460: A further set of questions about the elements of circumstance. Primarily, he asks "Whether a circumstance is an accident of a human act" (Article 1), "Whether Theologians should take note of the circumstances of human acts?" (Article 2), "Whether the circumstances are properly set forth (in Aristotle's) third book of Ethics" (Article 3) and "Whether the most important circumstances are 'Why' and 'In What
220-399: A new team of reporters also joined the program: Susan Ormiston , Christine Nielsen, and Elliott Shiff. The program was called W5 with Eric Malling until Malling moved to hosting the television program Mavericks in 1995. In 1993–94, an in-depth report on New Zealand showed the results of a nation that had suffered the effects of a debt wall . The report had a significant influence and
264-563: A question can be made without using them. In any particular act or situation, one needs to interrogate these questions in order to determine the actual circumstances of the action. It is necessary for students of virtue to differentiate between the Voluntary and Involuntary; such a distinction should even prove useful to the lawmaker for assigning honors and punishments. This aspect is encapsulated by Aristotle in Rhetoric as forensic speech and
308-556: A secondary education and benefitting from public universities that were being funded by Canadian taxpayers, without exploring the statement's backgrounds. The host of the program stated: It has been alleged that the feature was specifically directed to form a negative view towards Chinese and Chinese Canadians . As well, it did not determine if the people filmed in that particular episode were actually Chinese or Chinese Canadian. The feature led to widespread protests by Chinese Canadians, including Joseph Yu Kai Wong (later founder of
352-458: A series of one-hour documentaries for CTV under the title W5: Avery Haines Investigates , with a series premiere on the Darién Gap to air October 5, 2024. W5 came under controversy during the 1970s when it aired a feature called "Campus Giveaways", hosted by Helen Hutchinson . The feature used incorrect statistics to conclude that foreign students were eroding white Canadians' opportunities for
396-498: A sports and entertainment complex in Belfast, Northern Ireland W5, a postcode district in the W postcode area of London W.5, Asholt Wood, Kent, a Nature Conservation Review site World version W5 , a kickboxing promotion See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing W5 5W (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
440-549: Is considered an inspiration for a number of similar programs, including the American program 60 Minutes which premiered two years later. The program's first executive producer and host was Peter Reilly . He quit only a few weeks into the first season of W5 , in a dispute with John W. H. Bassett , who owned the CTV network's biggest station, CFTO-TV in Toronto . Reilly went on to become
484-531: Is in fact the source of the elements of circumstance or Septem Circumstantiae . Thomas Aquinas had much earlier acknowledged Aristotle as the originator of the elements of circumstances, providing a detailed commentary on Aristotle's system in his "Treatise on human acts" and specifically in part one of two Q7 "Of the Circumstances of Human Acts". Aquinas examines the concept of Aristotle's voluntary and involuntary action in his Summa Theologiae as well as
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#1732851875042528-498: Is led by Avery Haines ; it will file long-form reports for CTV News platforms such as the CTV National News , and produce occasional documentary specials for CTV under the branding W5: Avery Haines Investigates . It was launched as W5 on September 11, 1966, just after the demise of CBC Television 's This Hour Has Seven Days , at a time when the CTV network was on the brink of bankruptcy . The program's magazine format
572-604: Is used to determine "The characters and circumstances which lead men to commit wrong, or make them the victims of wrong" to accuse or defend. It is this application of the elements of circumstances that was emphasised by latter rhetoricians. Even though the classical origin of these questions as situated in ethics had long been lost, they have been a standard way of formulating or analyzing rhetorical questions since antiquity. The rhetor Hermagoras of Temnos, as quoted in pseudo-Augustine 's De Rhetorica , applied Aristotle's "elements of circumstances" ( μόρια περιστάσεως ) as
616-619: The CTV National News ). The new W5 unit launched in September 2024, with W5 host Avery Haines named managing editor and senior correspondent, Jon Woodward as an investigative correspondent, and TSN writer Rick Westhead serving as a senior correspondent. Its first production, Narco Jungle: The Death Train (a five-part report on the Darién Gap ), began airing on the CTV National News on September 30, 2024. The unit will also be producing
660-587: The Chinese Canadian National Council in order to form a stronger voice representing Chinese Canadians nationwide. Hosts, reporters, and producers associated with the program have included: Five Ws The Five Ws is a checklist used in journalism to ensure that the "lead" or "lede" contains all the essential points of a story. As far back as 1913, reporters were taught that the lead/lede should answer these questions: In modern times, journalism students are still taught that these are
704-620: The Five Ws of journalism : Who, What, Where, When and Why? It was the longest-running news magazine/documentary program in North America and the most-watched program of its type in Canada. In February 2024, Bell Media announced that W5 would conclude as a regular television series due to cutbacks at the company, but that the branding would be relaunched as an investigative journalism unit of CTV News. The new W5 unit launched in September 2024, and
748-456: The Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care ). The feature was also criticized by politicians like Bob Rae and Stephen Lewis , both of whom narrated a rebuttal. With the looming threat of a lawsuit, W5 retracted the feature's statement and apologised. The president of CTV at the time, Murray Chercover , issued the following statement on April 16, 1980: This event also led to the formation of
792-599: The loci of an issue: Aquinas also refers to the elements as used by Cicero in De Inventione (Chap. 24 DD1, 104) as: Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando . Similarly, Quintilian discussed loci argumentorum , but did not put them in the form of questions. Victorinus explained Cicero's application of the elements of circumstances by putting them into correspondence with Hermagoras's questions 5W's and an H : Julius Victor also lists circumstances as questions. Boethius "made
836-404: The "Five Ws", but the application was rather different from that in journalism: "What? Why? What of it?" is a plan of study of alliterative methods for the teacher emphasized by Professor W.C. Wilkinson not as original with himself but as of venerable authority. "It is, in fact," he says, "an almost immemorial orator's analysis. First the facts, next the proof of the facts, then the consequences of
880-520: The 1970s, Henry Champ was a longtime host, along with Ken Lefolii and Tom Gould . Helen Hutchinson , who also hosted during the 1970s (concurrent with her tenure as co-host of the morning show Canada AM ), was one of the first women to gain a prominent position in television news in Canada. Jim Reed joined the programme in 1972 as a field producer and was later appointed as host along with Hutchinson and Champ. Eric Malling joined W5 in 1990 from CBC's rival news magazine, The Fifth Estate . In 1991,
924-412: The 2007 two-hour documentary Triumph & Treachery: The Brian Mulroney Story . On October 24, 2009, CTV unveiled a new look for W5 , introduced a new logo and began broadcasting for the very first time in high definition . The title was once again rebranded, back to its original title as W5 . This look was further refined with the start of the program's 47th season on September 22, 2012. The start of
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#1732851875042968-491: The 2012–2013 season, the program began experimenting with loosening the format, with occasional three story episodes. For a period of time in the late 1970s and into the 1980s, the program's introductory theme music used part of " Fool's Overture ", a song by the UK band Supertramp . The current theme was composed by Doug Pennock , who has also composed the theme for CTV National News and music for other CTV special projects, including
1012-486: The 48th season saw the introduction of David Tyler as the current in-show narrator. In February 2024, as part of cuts by Bell Media , it was announced that W5 would conclude as a regular television series, with its final episode airing in March 2024. Plans were announced for W5 to be relaunched as an investigative journalism unit of CTV News, which will produce long-form and documentary features across its platforms (such as
1056-648: The Five Ws are used in the first stage of the BADIR to identify the business problem and its context in an analytics request. According to Inoslav Bešker, Professor of Philology at the University of Split in Croatia, the 5 Ws are rooted in the seven questions used in ancient Greece to communicate stories clearly: Although long attributed to Hermagoras of Temnos , in 2010, it was established that Aristotle 's Nicomachean Ethics
1100-528: The Mark 5 nuclear bomb W5 clock , built by Philip Woodward W5, a Motorola ROKR mobile phone W5, a radio source in the Westerhout 5 nebula W5, in the classification of meteorite weathering DSC-W5 , a Sony Cyber-shot camera Eutelsat W5 , a telecommunications satellite Transportation and military [ edit ] Albatros W.5 , a World War I German floatplane torpedo bomber Cierva W.5 ,
1144-451: The act consists'?" (Article 4). For in acts we must take note of who did it, by what aids or instruments he did it ( with ), what he did, where he did it, why he did it, how and when he did it. For Aristotle, the elements are used to distinguish voluntary or involuntary action, a crucial distinction for him. These elements of circumstances are used by Aristotle as a framework to describe and evaluate moral action in terms of What
1188-401: The facts. This analysis has often been expanded into one known as "The Five Ws": "When? Where? Who? What? Why?" Hereby attention is called, in the study of any lesson: to the date of its incidents; to their place or locality; to the person speaking or spoken to, or to the persons introduced, in the narrative; to the incidents or statements of the text; and, finally, to the applications and uses of
1232-471: The fallacy of – the doctrine of the five Ws in the first sentence of the newspaper story. Starting in the 2000s, the Five Ws were sometimes misattributed to Rudyard Kipling (referred to as "The Kipling Method"), especially in the management and quality literature, and contrasted with the five whys . In English, most of the interrogative words begin with the same letters, wh- ; in Latin , most also begin with
1276-571: The first host of the CBC's later current affairs offering, The Fifth Estate . Peter Rehak was executive producer through the 1980s and 1990s. Robert Hurst oversaw a revamping of the program look in the fall of 1995. Fiona Conway became executive producer but left for ABC News in 1998. Conway was succeeded by senior producer Ian McLeod and after he left Malcolm Fox became the executive producer from September 2000 until September 2009. Anton Koschany served as executive producer from 2009-2021, during which time
1320-501: The five Ws of journalism. Recent hosts have included Robertson, Sandie Rinaldo , Kevin Newman and Lisa LaFlamme (with Robertson continuing to co-host following his 2011 retirement as anchor of the CTV National News until 2016 when he was named special correspondent). W5 has produced such stories as a possible cure for multiple sclerosis ("The Liberation Treatment"), an investigation into fatal shootings by RCMP officers (nominated for
1364-586: The fundamental six questions of newswriting. Reporters also use the "5 Ws" to guide research and interviews and to raise important ethical questions, such as " How do you know that? ". There are many other names for this checklist. Some common ones are: The Five Ws and H , The 5 Ws of Journalism , Six Honest-Serving Men . In the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland), the Five Ws are used in Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 lessons (ages 7–14). In data analytics,
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1408-427: The lesson teachings. The "Five Ws" (and one H) were memorialized by Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories (1902), in which a poem, accompanying the tale of The Elephant's Child , opens with: I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. By 1917, the "Five Ws" were being taught in high-school journalism classes, and by 1940,
1452-582: The most important ones. And it seems that the most important circumstances are those just listed, including the Why In the Politics , Aristotle illustrates why the elements are important in terms of human (moral) action: I mean, for instance (a particular circumstance or movement or action), How could we advise the Athenians whether they should go to war or not, if we did not know their strength ( How much ), whether it
1496-484: The program moved into HD and produced an expanded number of episodes per season. He was succeeded by current Executive Producer Derek Miller. The program's first regular host was Ken Cavanagh , with reports from CTV National News journalists such as Doug Johnson and Frank Drea , who later became a Progressive Conservative member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario and Trina McQueen , later president of CTV. During
1540-407: The program was rebranded to W-FIVE and became more populist. Hosts included top CTV journalists, including Lloyd Robertson , Craig Oliver and Jim O'Connell. With broadcast shifting to HD for the 2009–2010 season the program reverted to its traditional title W5 with a revised graphic treatment and a new theme that reflects its investigative nature and culminates in five notes representative of
1584-527: The sake of what ( Why ), such as saving a life, and (7) the ( How ), such as gently or violently…And it seems that the most important circumstances are those just listed, including the Why . For Aristotle, ignorance of any of these elements can imply involuntary action: Thus, with ignorance as a possibility concerning all these things, that is, the circumstances of the act , the one who acts in ignorance of any of them seems to act involuntarily, and especially regarding
1628-522: The same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W5&oldid=1143486555 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages W5 (TV program) The title refers to
1672-558: The seven circumstances fundamental to the arts of prosecution and defense": The question form was taken up again in the 12th century by Thierry of Chartres and John of Salisbury . To administer suitable penance to sinners , the 21st canon of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) enjoined confessors to investigate both sins and the circumstances of the sins. The question form was popular for guiding confessors, and it appeared in several different forms: The method of questions
1716-454: The tendency of journalists to address all of the "Five Ws" within the lead paragraph of an article was being characterized as old-fashioned and fallacious: The old-fashioned lead of the five Ws and the H, crystallized largely by Pulitzer's " new journalism " and sanctified by the schools, is widely giving way to the much more supple and interesting feature lead, even on straight news stories. All of you know about – and I hope all of you admit
1760-555: Was also used for the systematic exegesis of a text. In the 16th century, Thomas Wilson wrote in English verse: Who, what, and where, by what helpe, and by whose: Why, how, and when, doe many things disclose. In the United States in the 19th century, William Cleaver Wilkinson popularized the "Three Ws" – What? Why? What of it? – as a method of Bible study in the 1880s, although he did not claim originality. This eventually became
1804-695: Was naval or military or both ( What kind ), and how great it is ( How many ), what their revenues amount to ( With ), Who their friends and enemies are ( Who ), what wars, too they have waged ( What ), and with what success; and so on. Essentially, these elements of circumstances provide a theoretical framework that can be used to particularize, explain or predict any given set of circumstances of action. Hermagoras went so far as to claim that all hypotheses are derived from these seven circumstances: In other words, no hypothetical question, or question involving particular persons and actions, can arise without reference to these circumstances, and no demonstration of such
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1848-517: Was or should be done, Who did it, How it was done, Where it happened, and most importantly for what reason (Why), and so on for all the other elements: Therefore it is not a pointless endeavor to divide these circumstances by kind and number; (1) the Who , (2) the What , (3) around what place ( Where ) or (4) in which time something happens ( When ), and sometimes (5) with what, such as an instrument ( With ), (6) for
1892-422: Was really a short-term currency crisis as something else: national bankruptcy and the loss of credit. The real issue - an overvalued currency - she says, was never brought up. "I'm talking about confusing the issues," she says, "making people believe things that aren't true because that's the point that he wanted to make. You don't need to come out with a technical lie to do that." In 1996 for its 30th anniversary,
1936-478: Was used by governments to justify cutting social services. The government of Alberta included transcripts of the program when it sent back rejected grant applications and Ontario Premier Bob Rae cited the program during cabinet debates on the deficit. Author Linda McQuaig criticized the program saying: "It was just full of misinformation," saying that Malling distorted the situation in New Zealand by presenting what
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