CBC to show Air India doc on bombing anniversary

GUY DIXON
Globe and Mail

Toronto — CBC Television will air the new documentary Air India 182 commercial-free on June 22, the 23rd anniversary of the date on which the fateful flight took off from Toronto toward New Delhi in 1985, only to be blown up near the coast of Ireland.

The film by director Sturla Gunnarsson, who is married into a Sikh family, caused a stir at the recent Hot Docs festival in Toronto with its portrayal of the alleged bomb plot by Sikh extremists, on-camera interviews with intelligence agents involved in the botched investigation and first-person accounts by the family members of the victims involved in the worst mass murder in Canadian history.