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Episode 137 - At 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 19, 1914, the worst coal mining disaster in Canadian history occurred at Hillcrest, Alberta, in the Crowsnest Pass region of western Canada. Episode written by Josina de Bree Sources: Anderson, Frank. “Hillcrest Mine Disaster” (Triumph and Tragedy in the Crowsnest Pass. Diana Wilson, Heritage House Publishing, Surrey, BC, 2005) www.crowsnest.bc.ca www.crowsnest-highway.ca www.hillcrestminedisaster.com Archival Holding PR0740. Provincial Archives of Alberta. https://hermis.alberta.ca/paa/Details.aspx?ObjectID=PR0740&dv=True&deptID=1 https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/canada/Canada3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_(Handel) http://www.indsci.com/the-monitor-blog/carbon-monoxide-carbon-dioxide/ https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/hw193731 https://alchetron.com/Hillcrest-mine-disaster https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2466176980 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

In a tragedy that shook Canada and the rest of the hockey playing world, just before 5:00pm on April 6, 2018, the team bus of the Humboldt Broncos Junior Hockey team smashed into a semi that had just blown through a stop at the intersection of Saskatchewan highways 35 and 335. Of the the 29 people on the bus that day, only 13 survived. The truck driver walked away unharmed, and was later charged with and convicted of 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 more counts of dangerous driving causing injury.  One player, 21-year-old defenseman Logan Boulet, had signed his donor card only 5 weeks before the crash and his death. His thoughtful gift saved the lives of six organ recipients. Logan’s selfless actions led droves of other Canadians to sign their donor cards, creating what has been called the #LoganBouletEffect. This remains the largest number of donors pledging their organs from a single event; 100,000 in the first three weeks. To keep the effect going his family helped to create Green Shirt Day in 2019, observed on April 7, the anniversary of Logan’s passing.  Sources and Further Reading: [Humboldt Broncos] [Humboldt Broncos bus crash - Wikipedia] [9 Apr 2018, NP1 - The National Post at Newspapers.com] [Home - Green Shirt Day] [Green Shirt Day - Home | Facebook] [Green Shirt Day (@GreenShirtDay) | Twitter] [Green Shirt Day (@greenshirtday) • Instagram photos and videos] [Report On Intersection Review | Government of Saskatchewan] [ER doctor recalls Humboldt Broncos crash response - YouTube] [Rod Stewart pays tribute to Humboldt Broncos | Globalnews.ca] [Logan Boulet taken off life support, organs donated  | Globalnews.ca] [COVID-19 forcing Green Shirt Day campaign changes | Global News] [Agreed statement of facts - Humboldt Broncos bus crash] [Guilty plea in Humboldt Broncos bus crash  | Globalnews.ca] [Driver in Humboldt crash wasn’t distracted | CBC News] [Adam Herold Legacy Foundation] [SEARCH: Global News Humboldt - YouTube] [Swift Current Broncos bus crash - Wikipedia] R v Sidhu, 2019 SKPC 19 (CanLII), Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

The bombing of CP Air flight 108, in September 1949, remains one of the most heinous acts undertaken in Canadian criminal history.

A huge explosion levelled a vast section of the Siberian forest in 1908. The exact cause of the devastating blast is still unknown.

After a deliberately set inferno three bodies are found inside the charred remains of a family home. The man responsible would spin a fatastical web of lies that RCMP were left to unravel.

Episode 044 - On January 11, 2011 people walking along the road spotted a headless, bare torso floating in Cold Water Creek off Landslide Road in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. The man was later identified as 29-year-old Wesley Hallam. Three local men, well knonw to police, were quickly apprehended and charged with first degree murder and causing  idignity to human remains. After over five years of hard fought investigation and lengthy criminal proceedings the case was 'resolved', but the ending horrified Wesley's family, friends and many residents of The Soo, even the police. Sources: Sources: http://canlii.ca/t/gt2v7http://canlii.ca/t/gn040http://canlii.ca/t/flt1rhttp://canlii.ca/t/fwsm6http://canlii.ca/t/g8k9shttps://youtu.be/d2kqgX2KjTY Steel Town Down - Vice and W5 documentary http://yourlifemoments.ca/sitepages/obituary.asp?oid=458790http://northernhoot.com/murder-wesley-hallam-getting-away-murder/http://northernhoot.com/release-looming-hallam-family-untold-truth/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvbU0Bl0i-0 Press Conference http://northernhoot.com/remembering-wesley-hallam-if-when-you-wake-up-in-the-morning/https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/details-of-wesley-hallams-death-emerge-as-three-sentenced-to-jail-346246https://globalnews.ca/news/2875716/ontario-mother-receives-sons-remains-more-than-five-years-after-his-killing/https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/mitchell-apologizes-mearow-and-jocko-dont-346489https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/eric-mearow-to-stand-trial-on-weapons-charges-1017453https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/anatomy-of-a-knife-fight-346637 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

On September 2, 1998, in one of Canada's worst air disasters, SwissAir flight 111 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean just off Peggy's Cove, NS.

Episode 021: Over a span of just over 100 years, western Canada played host to the 3 largest landslides that have been measured in modern ...

This is Episode 004 of Dark Poutine. Here we present The Halifax Explosion, in honour of the 100th annversary of the disaster. Prior to the detonation of the ...