Screening with closed captions. There will be ASL interpretation for the intro and Q&A on April 26.
After members of the 2018 Team Canada junior hockey team were accused of sexual assault following a championship celebration, Hockey Canada stepped in with a confidential financial settlement worth millions of dollars, hoping to keep the issue out of the public eye. Investigative journalist Rick Westhead broke the story about the cover-up, which sent shockwaves across Canada, as the country was forced to come to terms with a culture of silence and collusion surrounding a mythologized national pastime. Bearing witness to the subsequent 2025 trial of the five pro players in a London, Ontario, courtroom, Westhead dives deeper into the root causes of the hazing and abuse that have been ritualized in junior hockey for generations—and the lives harmed because of it. From courtrooms to locker rooms, lawyers, officers and players lay bare the flaws in systems that have not been held accountable. A companion to Westhead’s best-selling book We Breed Lions, Code of Misconduct is a sobering study of power, consent and the importance of journalism in an increasingly fractured society. Alexander Rogalski
Content advisory: This film contains verbal descriptions of sexual assault.