Ottawa police searching for missing 28-year-old woman

In the fall of 1964, the producers of a national television newsmagazine called This Hour Has Seven Days started a revolution at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. According to the manifesto with which the program began its first broadcast, the new program would “probe hypocrisy,” right “public wrongs,” “grill . . . prominent guests,” and, in the process, create “journalism of . . . such urgency that it will become mandatory viewing for a large segment of the nation.” The CBC’s top executives in Ottawa were immediately alarmed....