January 2022 – Dark Poutine

205: Away Game: The Butcher of Hanover — Fritz Haarmann

April 24, 2025January 31, 2022 by Mike Browne

Episode 205: In this Away Game we are off to post World War One Germany where in the early 1920s, a brutal serial killer, Fritz Haarmann, killed at least 27 young men and boys. Many of his crimes, it appears, were committed to impress his lover, a man named Hans Grans. Although Haarmann admitted it was he who murdered and dismembered the victims, he claimed that ultimately, in a few cases, it was Grans who chose who was to die.

Sources:

Weimar Republic – HISTORY

List of German serial killers – Wikipedia

Author & Radio Host | Alan R. Warren

Butcher of Hanover: Fritz Haarmann by Alan R. Warren

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204: Mind Control at Ravenscrag: The MK ULTRA Experiments in Canada

April 24, 2025January 24, 2022 by Mike Browne

Episode 204: Between 1957 and 1964 in Montreal, Quebec, experiments were undertaken that compromised and invaded people’s minds, their agency to make decisions for themselves removed and their brains mucked about in, both physically and psychologically. These barbaric, Orwellian experiments often involved mind expanding drugs like LSD, sensory deprivation, shock treatments and periods of sleep induced for weeks at a time as well as other treatments that could easily be called torturous. They were sponsored by the most notorious branch of the United States government, the CIA, the Canadian government as well as other shadowy organizations with funding coming even from the Rockefellers. The goals behind the research, it seems were to develop brainwashed, zombie-like ‘recruits’ who would do the bidding of these groups without question or conscience getting in the way and to develop new methods of psychological torture to aid in enemy interrogation. All of it took place right here in Canada. The research was overseen by Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, an eminent and well-respected psychiatrist at McGill University’s, Allan Memorial Institute with unwitting Canadian psychiatric patients used as Guinae pigs. The project was called MK-ULTRA.

Sources:

D. Ewen Cameron, M.D., F.R.C.P.C.

Donald Ewen Cameron

Donald Ewen Cameron | The McClaughry’s Blog

CIA MKULTRA / Mind Control Collection – The Black Vault

MKULTRA files : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Most Dangerous Game : Josh Shore, Paul Shore : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron

Psychological Warfare | RAND

Mind Control & MK-ULTRA

MK Ultra Project – Commission on Assisted Dying

George Cooper Report Ewen Cameron, 1986 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

MK Ultra: CIA mind control program in Canada (1980) – The Fifth Estate — YouTube

Brainwashed: The Secret CIA Experiments in Canada – The Fifth Estate — YouTube

CIA Mind Control Survivors Seek Restitution From Canadian Government

SAAGA — Survivors Against Government Abuse

Brainwashed | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen

Ravenscrag, Montreal – Wikipedia

Allan Memorial Institute – Wikipedia

Project MKULTRA – McGill

Declassified: Mind Control at McGill | The McGill Tribune

Reader CIA Brainwashing McIntosh

Montreal MKULTRA Experiments | The Canadian Encyclopedia

The toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ‘They strip you of your soul’ | Canada | The Guardian

Victims of CIA’s MKUltra Mind Control Program Are Fighting Back | Gaia

Mind Wars by Marie D. Jones | Goodreads

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control by John D. Marks | Goodreads

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer | Goodreads

Maisonneuve | Distant Relatives

Trudeau government gag order in CIA brainwashing case silences victims, lawyer says | CBC News

Brainwashed: The echoes of MK-ULTRA | CBC News

Social Media and the Brain

US claims Russia planning ‘false-flag’ operation to justify Ukraine invasion | Russia | The Guardian

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203: The Sydney River McDonalds Shooting

April 24, 2025January 17, 2022 by Mike Browne

Episode 203: On May 7, 1992, after the McDonald’s restaurant on Kings Road near Keltic Drive in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, closed for the night and the overnight crew was coming in and the evening crew was leaving. Three young men, armed with a shovel handle, knives and a .22 calibre pistol robbed the establishment. They beat, stabbed and shot 4 of the restaurant workers, killing three, Jimmy Fagan, 27, Donna Warren, 22, and Neil Burroughs Jr., 29, and critically wounding 20-year-old, Arlene MacNeil, who was permanently disabled both physically and mentally, requiring round the clock care until her death in 2018. The crime’s brutality brought unwelcome international media attention to the small town, especially when the truth came out. To almost everyone’s surprise, days after the murders, it quickly became evident that the brutal crime had been committed by three, fairly well-liked young men from the area. They’d robbed the place for its cash, making off with a tiny fraction of what they had assumed would be in the restaurant’s safe.

Sources:

Sydney River McDonald’s murders – Wikipedia

R. v. Muise, 1992 CanLII 4046 (NS SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/1qlf2 >

R. v. MacNeil, 1993 CanLII 4442 (NS SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/1pqsc >

R. v. MacNeil, 1993 CanLII 4449 (NS SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/1pqsl >

R. v. Wood, 1993 CanLII 4535 (NS SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/1ql92 >

R. v. Muise (No. 1), 1993 CanLII 4555 (NS SC), < https://canlii.ca/t/1ql9r >

R. v. Muise, 1994 NSCA 198 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/1mqpp >

R. v. Wood, 1994 NSCA 239 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/1mqcn >

R. v. MacNeil, 1995 NSCA 10 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/1mqdv >

Twenty years of heartache | The Chronicle Herald

N.S. McDonald’s killer granted full parole | CBC News

McDonald’s killer Darren Muise ‘financially secure’ and ‘living a good life’ on parole: documents – Halifax | Globalnews.ca

McDonald’s murderer ‘financially secure’ and ‘living a good life’: parole documents | CTV News

Derek Wood, convicted in McDonald’s murders, denied day parole | CBC News

Wood v Warden (Atlantic Institution), 2017 CanLII 67340 (NB CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/h6mgr >

Derek Anthony Wood and the Sydney River McDonald’s Murders – Christopher di Armani.com

Sydney River McDonald’s killer loses appeal | SaltWire

One of three men convicted in McDonald’s murders awarded unescorted absences – Halifax | Globalnews.ca

24 Sep 2000, 28 – The Winnipeg Sun at Newspapers.com

Murder at McDonald’s: The Killers Next Door eBook : Jessome, Phonse: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

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202: Mad or Malingering? The Crimes of Mathew Charles Lamb

April 24, 2025January 10, 2022 by Mike Browne

Episode 202: Mathew Charles Lamb was a troubled and disturbed youngster. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, unwanted, to a teenage mother and bounced from one relative’s home to another, never having close relationships with any of them. To him they were merely his keepers. The rules they laid out for him to follow were bothersome to him. Young Matt was incorrigible. He became violent early on, many of the other kids in his family and in the neighbourhood were terrified of him. After a number of run ins with local police and several violent incidents involving firearms, one including a shootout with police, Mathew Lamb was jailed in the Kingston Pen for the first time — he was just 16. At 18 years old, only days after an early release, Mathew Charles Lamb, went on a shooting spree in Windsor, killing two strangers and wounding two more.

Sources:

City Of Windsor

Canada’s Most Dangerous Places 2020 – Macleans.ca

The Windsor Star – Google News Archive Search

Mathew Charles Lamb | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

Read Watching the Devil Dance Online by William Toffan | Books

Mathew Charles Lamb – Wikipedia

House of Commons Debates, 30th Parliament, 2nd … – Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources

New Book Documents Canada’s First Spree Killer and Windsor Native Matthew Lamb | 519 Magazine

Book – The Psychopath Test

About: Mathew Charles Lamb

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201: The Tragic Death of Robert Dziekanski

April 24, 2025January 3, 2022 by Mike Browne

Episode 201: On October 14, 2007, after a gruelling 20-hour journey from Poland, Robert Dziekanski, arrived at the YVR airport’s international terminal in Richmond, B.C. Dziekanski, who spoke nor read any English, was unable to read the signs directing him to what he should do next or where he should go. The confused man spent ten hours in the airport wandering around the secure customs area. His mother was waiting for him with a friend only a few meters away in the public waiting area. Had the two been able to connect this story would have had a very different conclusion, but they did not. She left the airport, frustrated, hours before her son’s final moments.

Sources:

Commissioner’s Statement – Incident at Vancouver Airport – Canada.ca

Report Following a Public Interest Investigation into a Chair-Initiated Complaint Respecting the Death in RCMP Custody of Mr. Robert Dziekanski | Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP

Braidwood Inquiry

Braidwood Commission Report

Vancouver Sun — YVR Robert Dziekanski 2007 Taser incident — YouTube

Vancouver Airport Tragedy – Canada — YouTube (song)

Rundel v. British Columbia – Braidwood Commission, 2009 BCSC 814 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/2465p >

Taser International, Inc. v. British Columbia, 2010 BCSC 1120 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/2c0pd >

R. v. Bentley, 2013 BCSC 1125 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g0349 >

R. v. Bentley, 2013 BCSC 1364 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/fzvpn >

R. v. Millington, 2014 BCSC 756 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g6pxd >