Dark Poutine

Episode 432:InFebruary 1884, a Scottish storekeeper namedJames Bellwas shot dead in his cabin alongTelegraph Road in Washington Territory, just south of the Canadian border. Within days, a fifteen-year-old Semá:th boy…

Episode 431:In the fall of 2011, the first of three indigenous women disappeared from a stretch of Winnipeg’s West End that those who worked there called theStreet of Tears. Their…

Episode 430:On the morning ofMay 28, 1998, police were called to a home on Encino Avenue in Encino, California. Inside the master bedroom, they foundPhil Hartman— one of the most…

Episode 429:InJanuary 1995, DNA testing excludedGuy Paul Morin, the man convicted of the 1984murder of Christine Jessop, from the crime. The Ontario Court of Appeal set aside his conviction, and…

Episode 428:OnOctober 3, 1984, nine-year-oldChristine Jessopstepped off a school bus inQueensville, Ontario, and walked toward home. She was never seen alive again. Her body was found on New Year’s Eve,…

Episode 427: In the summer of 1934, John Sackville Labatt was one of the most recognizable names in Canada. The fifty-three-year-old president of John Labatt Limited had spent nearly two decades running one of…

Episode 426: On June 29th, 2021, Lytton, British Columbia, recorded the highest air temperature in Canadian history: 49.6 degrees Celsius. The next day, the town burned to the ground in under two hours, killing two people and…

Episode 425: In May 1934, five identical girls were born in a farmhouse outside Corbeil, Ontario. They were the first quintuplets known to survive infancy anywhere in the world. Within weeks, the Province…