Description
One woman’s fight to understand why her husband died of ALS and the public health investigation into a possible cluster of Lou Gehrig's disease. She embarks on her own quest to find the causes of a disease that science still struggles to understand.
#als #lougehrigsdisease #alsawareness
0:00 The local cluster
11:32 The Alpine cases
23:31 Pollution theories
33:28 Exposome
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CREDITS: THE FIFTH ESTATE PRESENTS
52-03 Friday, October 23, 2026
ALS Country
for enquête
producer/director
Judith Plamondon
writer
Brigitte Noël
investigative journalist
Daniel Tremblay
video editors
Milène Ortenberg
Charles Bergeron
principal photography
Sébastien Gauvin Blanchet
Jean-Pierre Gandin
Danny Gosselin
Jérôme Lafon
Michel Picard
Pierre-Olivier Massé
Luc St-Pierre
archival material
BBC – Horizon, The Poison That Waits
Pond5
Shutterstock
visual research
France Bonneau
Jean-Michel Daoust
Karine Savard
rights coordinator
Cleo Beland
graphic designer
Audrey Salaun
sound
Louis-Gilles Chartrand
Marc-Antoine Fournier
Frédéric Tremblay-Caron
Sylvain Renzo
post audio
Frédéric Grenon
media management
Jean-François Dion
special thanks
Sandra Banack
Famille Brindle
Caroline Cayer
Claudine Cook / SLA Québec
Paul Cox
Franciszek Czyzowic
Thomas Deshaies
Jonathan Gareau
Stephen Goutman
James Haney
Josiane Houbart
Barry Husk
Serge Lebrun
Sam McNulty
Patricia Morgan
Nicole Préfontaine
Timothy Sawa
Peter Spencer
Elijah Stommel
David Taylor / ALS Society of Canada
production assistant
Guylaine Philie
production coordinator
Danielle Bouchard
senior producer
Sophie Lambert
executive producer
Alain Abel
for the fifth estate
producer
Michelle Gagnon
editor
Robert Bilodeau
host
Steven D’Souza
principal photography
Ousama Farag
lighting director
Roberto B Brilli
lighting board operator
Joseph Picano
television assistant
Benjamin Müller
camera assistant
Mehrdad Nazarahari
voice actors
Miranda Handford
Leni Parker
media management
Laurel Robinson
visual research
Leslie Morrison
resource coordinators
Marc Cormier
Dragan Maricic
post audio
Ron Searles
senior colourist
Scott McIntyre
rollout producer
Leanne Stepnow
social media producers
Danny Burke
Alex Soloducha
Brian Vinh Trinh
associate director
Carmen Smith
packaging editor
Alessia Protomanni
coordinating associate director
Jane Wilson
senior producer
Emmanuel Marchand
executive producer
Allya Davidson
original broadcast, Radio-Canada
October 23, 2025