Mike Browne

Episode 194: On June 25, 1950, after months of increasing tension, the Korean War or what has been called Canada’s forgotten war, began when North Korean troops invaded South Korea. Countries, including Canada, belonging to the newly formed United Nations jumped in quickly to defend democratic South Korea from the the communist forces from the north. Canada contributed the third largest number of soldiers among UN countries to the war. More than 26,000 Canadians served in the conflict on land, at sea and in the air. Over the next three years of the conflict there were 516 Canadians killed, another 1042 were wounded, 33 became prisoners of war and 16 soldiers are still missing in action. 

Lest we forget.

Sources:

Veterans Affairs Canada — Land of the Morning Calm

What is The Memory Project? — The Memory Project

Seeking the families of Canadian Army soldiers missing in Korea — Canada.ca

Register to find your missing military family member — Canada.ca

“We really didn’t think we would survive,” Mike Czuboka, Korean War “Extraordinary Hero” award recipient shares his story – 580 CFRA – Omny.fm

Gerald Edward Gowing – Veterans Affairs Canada

The Kims: Leaders’ Biographies – North Korea: Introductory Sources – LibGuides at Cornell University

Read Korea Online by John Melody and John M. Rockingham | Books

Read Deadlock in Korea Online by Ted Barris | Books

Read Triumph at Kapyong Online by Dan Bjarnason | Books

Read The Korean War Online by Michael Hickey | Books

Read Reluctant Neighbor: Canada, the U.S.A. and the Korean Crisis Online by Darryl Hurly | Books

Read Everyday Heroes Online by Jody Mitic | Books

Read Canadian Foreign Policy: 1945-2000 Online by Arthur E. Blanchette | Books

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Episode 193: On September 5, 2009, Hilary Bonnell, 16, disappeared from Esgenoopetitj formerly known as, Burnt Church, in the Miramichi region of New Brunswick. Over the next several months her mother, stepfather, family and friends pulled out all the stops searching for the teen. Despite their tireless efforts, during which they utilized the media and a widespread poster campaign, they could not find Hilary. On Sunday, November 8, 2009, Curtis Wayne Bonnell, Hilary’s first cousin, was arrested by the R.C.M.P. on an unrelated sexual assault allegation. In custody, Curtis began talking. He admitted he had knowledge of what had happened to Hilary Bonnell.

Sources:

Esgenoopetitj First Nation “Burnt Church” – Home | Facebook

R v Bonnell, 2011 NBQB 246 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/fnknp >

R v Bonnell, 2011 NBQB 349 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g1nfv >

R v Bonnell, 2012 NBQB 24 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g1nft >

R v Bonnell, 2012 NBQB 289 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g1ngr >

R v Bonnell, 2012 NBQB 309 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g1nhf >

R v Bonnell, 2012 NBQB 321 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/g1nfl >

Bonnell v. R., 2015 NBCA 6 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/gg44v >

Global News — Search: Hilary Bonnell

Bonnell admits he killed cousin Hilary after sex | CBC News

Mother of Hilary Bonnell, allegedly killed by cousin, testifies at murder trial | Globalnews.ca

YouTube — Hilary Bonnell murder — family reaction

Curtis Listens to family’s pain – sentenced to life in prison : Miramichi Online

Mother of slain teen girl vents grief during New Brunswick man’s sentencing | Globalnews.ca

‘It doesn’t end when you bury your child’: Families of MMIWG speak of their pain in Moncton | Globalnews.ca

MMIWG Testimony — Moncton Public Vol 44(b) Fillier — Pamela and Fred Fillier (Hilary Bonnell)

Final Report | MMIWG

Hilary Bonnell’s family continues to face adversity 11 years after her murder | CBC News

Facebook Group — In Loving Memory of HILARY BONNELL

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Episode 192: If you’re willing to look you’ll see that human culture and all other endeavors are shot through with one predominant and frightening idea, that one day everything, including us, must come to an end. One day we will die. Human beings are, as far as we know, the only animal capable of understanding that inevitably every one of us, good eggs and bad apples alike, will expire. Hopefully, a long time from now, we will pass away, be sleeping with the fishes, or, if you like, have met our maker.

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Supernatural Circumstances Podcast

Sources:

BOOK — The Denial of Death

BOOK — The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life

BOOK — Egyptian Book of the Dead

BOOK — On Death and Dying

entityseeker.ca

29 Best Death Metaphors & Idioms (2021)

Don’t Pay The Ferryman – song by Chris de Burgh | Spotify

The Supernatural | Canada Stamp Series

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Quotes (Author of On Death and Dying)

Ring Around the Rosie: Metafolklore, Rhyme and Reason | Folklife Today

Does a Dying Person Know They Are Dying?

The book of death: weighing your heart

What Physically Happens to Your Body Right After Death

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Episode 191: On the evening of July 30, 2008, Tim McLean, a 22-year-old Canadian carnival barker was returning home to Winnipeg riding a Greyhound bus when he was viciously stabbed, beheaded, and cannibalized by another passenger about 18 km west of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. After arriving on scene, RCMP watched for hours as the perpetrator, Vince Li, 40, desecrated Tim’s body inside the bus after the driver and remaining passengers had fled, powerless to stop the man’s frenzy. Less than a year later, Vince Li was found not criminally responsible (NCR) for Tim McLean’s slaying, but held in a Manitoba psychiatric institution from which he was released just 6 years later.

Sources:

Cold Facts of the Case – Tim’s Law

YouTube — R.I.P Tim McLean – July 30, 2008 Greyhound Bus Tragedy

YouTube — TIMOTHY MCLEAN KILLING (CAROL DE DELLEY INTERVIEW) AFTERMATH OF MURDER: SURVIVOR STORIES

Justice served with the absolute discharge of Vince Li – The Manitoban

BOOK: Shrunk — Crime and Disorders of the Mind by Lore

Proceed with Extreme Caution: The Not Criminally Responsible Defence | CanLII

Vincent Li found not criminally responsible for murder – Winnipeg Free Press

DocumentCloud — Manitoba Criminal Code Review Board decision

Timeline of decisions in the case of Vince Li – Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca

Vince Li Archives – Dying Words

YouTube — Vince Li — “Please, kill me.”

YouTube — The Fifth Estate — Bus 1170 : Vince Li and the Greyhound Bus Murder (2011)

Killing of Tim McLean – Wikipedia

Vince Li | News, Videos & Articles | Globalnews.ca

Looking back at the Greyhound bus beheading a decade down the road | Globalnews.ca

Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act (backgrounder) — Canada News Centre

Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act

http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/16395/etd9553_TMiller.pdf

Talk:Killing of Tim McLean – Wikipedia

How to Be a Juggalo: 12 Steps (with Pictures) – wikiHow Fun

A Conversation With Vince Li – Steinbachonline.com

Vince Li, man who beheaded Greyhound bus passenger, seeks absolute discharge | CBC News

R.I.P Tim McLean — Facebook Group

MCLEAN TIMOTHY – Obituaries – Winnipeg Free Press Passages

Timeline to the Greyhound bus killing | CBC News

Vince Weiguang Li | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

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Episode 190: Old Mike Todor’s body was found in his east end Regina home in the spring of 1955. He’d lain there for more than 14 months and had been beaten to death. Someone had killed him, but who? Elizabeth “Tootsie” LaFleche, Mike’s 30-something-year-old wife, who’d been living with a friend for months, was telling a lot of stories about what had become of Mike. None of the tales made a lot of sense. After police found Mike’s body, a number of arrests were made, charges were laid and several trials held, but thanks to Tootsie’s lies, the real facts of the case may never be known.

Sources:

R. v. Dyck, 1956 CanLII 197 (SK CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/g79xv >

BOOK — Trail of blood: A Canadian Murder Odyssey by Frank Jones

History of the Death Penalty in Canada

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Episode 189: Starting in 1963 and stretching over the next seven years, a militant French separatist group called the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorized La Belle Province. Their aim was to overthrow the Quebec government and leave Canada creating an independent Marxist- Leninist Quebec state. By 1970 the group had committed more than 200 violent criminal and terroristic acts including, bombings and high profile kidnappings. The group’s activities ultimately claimed the lives of eight people, including a Quebec provincial cabinet minister, and injured many more, before then Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, finding himself out of options, enacted the 1914 War Measures act to stem the violence of the October Crisis of 1970.

Sources:

Timeline of the Front de libération du Québec – Wikipedia

CBC Archives — What is the FLQ?

Web Archive | McGill.ca — October Crisis 1970

October Crisis – Canada’s Human Rights History

FLQ (FRONT DE LIBERATION DU QUEBEC) – SEVEN YEARS OF TERRORISM | Office of Justice Programs

The Making of the October Crisis: Canada’s Long Nightmare of Terrorism at the Hands of the FLQ by D’Arcy Jenish

Read Hostages Online by Gordon Kerr | Books

Read Terror Threat Online by Dwight Hamilton and Kostas Rimsa | Books

Read The Night Canada Stood Still Online by Robert Wright | Books

Read Trudeaumania Online by Robert Wright | Books

Read October Crisis: 50 Years After A Bloody Spasm That Nearly Tore Canada Apart

DEMOCRACY VERSUS TERRORISM: FLQ TERRORISM IN QUEBEC, A CASE STUDY on JSTOR

The Terrorist Activities of the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) – The Beginning of a New Era

Pierre Vallières (1937-1998) – The Beginning of a New Era

Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) | The Canadian Encyclopedia

THE FLQ: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION by Lorne Weston

The FLQ Crisis – VALOUR CANADA

Summary · Task Force on Kidnapping: The Department of External Affairs’ Files on the October Crisis · Canada Declassified

« Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)» : tous nos articles | Le Devoir

Pierre Laporte – Wikipedia

James Cross – Wikipedia

François Schirm — Wikipédia

Edmond Guénette — Wikipédia

Commission of Inquiry Concerning Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP – Wikipedia

October Crisis: Who was Pierre Laporte, really? | Montreal Gazette

La police connaissait les ravisseurs de Cross et Laporte | Radio-Canada.ca

Global News — Search: FLQ

Canada – The Trudeau years, 1968–84 | Britannica

Regina v. Vallieres, 1969 CanLII 1000 (QC CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/hv0p9>

Regina v. Vallieres, 1973 CanLII 1418 (QC CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/htwgv>

R. v. Cossette-Trudel, 1979 CanLII 2876 (QC CQ), <https://canlii.ca/t/gbz8c>

The Quiet Revolution

Chronology of the October Crisis, 1970, and its Aftermath – Quebec History

Message of the FLQ to the Nation 1963

YouTube — Trudeau: Just watch me

Just watch me – Wikipedia

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Episode 188: In early October of 1994, during a bizarre, nearly simultaneous sequence of murder / suicides, in Quebec, and across the Atlantic in Switzerland, 53 members of the Order of the Solar Temple were found dead in burned out buildings. The deaths fulfilled what the cult’s leaders claimed was the group’s “final transit” or return to Unity with God required before the impending end of the world. Even though it appeared to be over, more cult members were yet to die. Over a year later, in December of 1995, sixteen members of the cult died in France. More than a year after that, in march 1997, another five cult members died in Quebec bringing the death toll to 74. 

The cult’s two founders, Luc Jouret and Joseph Di Mambro, were among the dead in 1994, however, some fear there may be future related mass murder / suicides by followers still practicing in secret.

Sources:

Cult Education Institute :: The Order of the Solar Temple

Order of the Solar Temple – Wikipedia

12 Disturbing Secrets Of The Order Of The Solar Temple Cult

The Cult of the Sun and the Cult of the Dead in Egypt on JSTOR

Read Doomsday Cults: The Devil’s Hostages Online by Alan R. Warren | Books

Read Killer Cults Online by Stephen Singular | Books

Read Cults that Kill Online by Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Agsar | Books

Read Rampage Online by Lee Mellor | Books

Glass: Akhnaten – Album by Philip Glass, Dennis Russell Davies | Spotify

“Our terrestrial journey is coming to an end”: the last voyage of the Solar Temple

(PDF) The Magic of Death: The Suicides of the Solar Temple | Massimo Introvigne – Academia.edu

CBC Archives — The madness begins for the Solar Temple cult

CBC Archives — Solar Temple cult leader Joseph Di Mambro confirmed dead

Michel Tabachnik – Wikipedia

Swiss conductor acquitted of sect killings – SWI swissinfo.ch

Joseph Di Mambro | Article about Joseph Di Mambro by The Free Dictionary

History Canada: October 4,1994: An international cult tragedy begins – RCI | English

Cult Intervention :: Cult Education Institute

Homeopathy | HealthLink BC

https://infosect.freeshell.org/infocult/phenomene/English/HTML/doc0008.htm

 

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Episode 187: Between 1974 and 1976, a series of rapes and murders took place in and around the small town of Strathroy, in South Western Ontario, perpetrated by Christian Herbert Harold Magee. He sexually assaulted and murdered 3 women, and raped two others.

Written by: Mathew Stockton

Sources:

R. v. Magee, 1997 CanLII 2431 (ON CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/6h5f>

Mental Health Centre, Penetanguishene v. Magee, 2006 CanLII 16077 (ON CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/1n8bq>

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/118607/carried-away-by-alice-munro/9780307264862/excerpt

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2006/01/16/Mad-Slasher-wants-to-apologize/19681137468884/?ur3=1

https://truecrimerealtimepod.com/2020/05/26/28-londons-sordid-past-part-3-the-mad-slasher/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=42563797&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQ2NDAxNDg5MywiaWF0IjoxNjI1MjU1MzU3LCJleHAiOjE2MjUzNDE3NTd9.S7hmiBoeW8POhTzffvN8NTXF4vCsSSuHGQO5sEZ5xXM

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/magee-christian.htm

http://coldcase.lailafarrell.com/index.php/category/murderer/

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20051006/281608120825417

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Episode 186: Twenty years ago, on the morning of September 11, 2001, as the world watched in horror, 19 radical Islamist al-Qaeda terrorists launched a group of coordinated attacks using four commuter planes as weapons, hitting several preplanned targets in the eastern United States. Two of the airliners were flown deliberately into each of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane smashed into the U.S. Pentagon. A fourth plane believed to have been bound for the U.S. Capitol building crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers aboard the flight fought back against the terrorists who’d taken over the flight.

Among the 2977 people who died as a direct result of the attacks, 24 of those were Canadian. As with many other countries, Canada stepped up to help in the immediate aftermath. What follows are details of the initial attacks and then some of the stories from that day and its aftermath.

Sources and Further Reading:

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

Not a drill – Canada’s air force on 9/11 | Globalnews.ca

Operation Support – Wikipedia

Operation Yellow Ribbon – Wikipedia

Casualties of the September 11 attacks – Wikipedia

Public Safety Canada — Remembering September 11th

The Government of Canada’s response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11

CANADA AND 9/11: BORDER SECURITY IN A NEW ERA

THE VIEWS OF CANADIAN SCHOLARS ON THE IMPACT OF THE ANTI-TERRORISM ACT

The Cost of 9/11

The Day Canadians Opened Their Homes To Americans

The Anti-Terrorism Act and Security Measures in Canada: Public Views, Impacts and Travel Experiences

Halifax airport employee remembers ‘grateful’ passengers and crew stranded on 9/11 | Globalnews.ca

New York thanks Gander, NL for help on 9/11 with piece of World Trade Center | Globalnews.ca

9/11 Canadian victims | Globalnews.ca

Brian Williams Memory September 11: Why Our Memory May Change | Time

RCMP officer kept stranded air passengers safe on 9/11 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Front row for history: Doc reveals fates of the ‘9/11 Kids’ at school with George W. Bush | Globalnews.ca

9/11 and Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia

‘Global National’ celebrates 20 years in TV special: ‘Disruption: 20 Years of Global National’ – National | Globalnews.ca

Can Watching Media Cause Symptoms of Trauma or PTSD? — Counselling & Therapy Services – The Juniper Center

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Episode 185: RCMP officers arrived at the Blackman family residence on Spuraway Avenue in Coquitlam, B.C.’s Ranch Park subdivision in the early morning hours of January 18th, 1983. A neighbour had called 911after hearing screams and then witnessing what appeared to be a domestic argument next door that escalated into a shooting. Inside the eerily silent home as the cold winter rain fell, the responding officers found a horrific and bloody scene; six members of the Blackman family were dead.

The deceased were Richard Blackman, 50, his wife, Irene Blackman, 49, their daughter, Roberta Lynn Davies, 28, Roberta’s husband, John Iowerth Davies, 39, Karen Dale Rhodes, 25, another of the Blackman’s daughters, and the youngest of the Blackman children, 16-year-old son, Rick Blackman. Just outside the home, police had detained a young man, 22-year-old, Bruce Alfred Blackman, another of Irene and Richard’s sons. Bruce, who’d been picked up as police arrived, was acting bizarrely, telling the RCMP officers that he was the Antichrist and that the world was going to end on January 31.

Sources:

Blackman v. British Columbia (Review Board), 1995 CanLII 3437 (BC CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/1ddr0 >

Blackman v. British Columbia (Attorney General), 1993 CanLII 2620 (BC CA), < https://canlii.ca/t/1dbks >

British Columbia Review Board – Decision on Bruce Alfred Blackman

https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/arc_oic/0332_1983

https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/oic/arc_oic/1122_1991

Violence and Schizophrenia by Heidi J. Wehring and William T. Carpenter

Correlates of Future Violence in People Being Treated for Schizophrenia | American Journal of Psychiatry

Schizophrenia: Warning Signs of Violence | HealthLink BC

A Voice out of Nowhere eBook : Booth, Janice Holly: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

Bruce Alfred Blackman | Amok Wiki | Fandom

Police layed six charges of first-degree murder Tuesday against… – UPI Archives

Author Janice Holly Booth — Book: A Voice out of Nowhere

Little Known Details Behind Mass Murder Case Revealed in New Book, A Voice out of Nowhere

Someone I love has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. How can I help? | Here to Help

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