Dark Poutine

Episode 439: In September 1632, plague was tearing through Loudun, France, when the Ursuline nuns began reporting apparitions, unexplained blows and violent physical attacks. During a series of exorcisms, the…

Episode 438: In September 1755, more than four hundred men from Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, were summoned to their parish church and told their land, homes, and livestock had been forfeited…

Episode 437: Tyrone William ‘Ty’ Connbecame the first man in over forty years to climb over the wall atKingston Penitentiary, Canada’s oldest and most secure federal prison. Born to a…

Episode 436:In June 1967, two of northern Saskatchewan’s most respected bushmen, Métis political organizerJames Bradyand Cree band councillorAbsolom Halkett, were dropped off by float plane to prospect for uranium near…

Episode 435:InNovember 1944, theImperial Japanese Armybegan launchingpaper balloonsfrom the coast of Honshu — each one carrying incendiary and anti-personnel bombs, designed to ride the jet stream across the Pacific and…

Episode 434:On the morning ofFebruary 25th, 2005,Crystal Taman, a forty-year-old dental assistant, wife, and mother of three, left her home inEast St. Paul, Manitobaon her way to work. She never…

Episode 433:OnAugust 16, 1995, Avis Ottey came home to her townhouse in Scarborough, Ontario, expecting to find her daughters packing for the future. Instead, she found nineteen-year-oldMarsha Otteyand sixteen-year-oldTamara “Tami”…

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…