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Episode 401: At the start of the twentieth century, Vancouver, B.C., was a fast-growing Pacific port. Most residents were white settlers of British or European descent, but Chinese and Japanese communities were…

Episode 230: Over a period of 22 months, between January 1969 and January 1971, 3 women in Southwestern Ontario were brutally murdered in 3 different towns. These women’s names were Isobella “Belva” Russell, Edith Authier, and Jane Wooley. Police solved the case of the third victim, Belva Russell, a matter of weeks after the crime. The perpetrator, Gerald Thomas Archer was convicted and imprisoned. There were obvious similarities between all three crimes. For several reasons the initial investigators on the cases missed them. Gerald Thomas Archer got his freedom in 1985, when he was 65. He was a drifter and passed away in 1995. Five years after Archer’s death, his family made police aware of new information. Through DNA, were police able to connect him to the murders of  Edith Authier, and Jane Wooley.  Gerald Thomas Archer, had been a serial killer and had walked free for the last ten years of his life.

Episode 134 - On the morning of October 22, 2014, an armed terrorist murdered Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, one of three honour guards at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Ontario. Immediately after that, the man shot his way into the Parliament Buildings but was quickly neutralized by security service officers inside our nation's capital. Further Reading and Sources: Nathan Cirillo https://globalnews.ca/news/1630945/nathan-cirillo-soldier-and-dog-rescuer https://truepatriotlove.com/ http://www.standonguardfund.com/ https://globalnews.ca/news/6067053/nathan-cirillo-five-year-anniversary/ https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/nathan-cirillo-obituary?pid=179271124 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nathan-cirillo-tributes-pour-in-for-young-father-photographed-by-tourists-moments-before-fatal-9812599.html https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/cpl-nathan-cirillo-mourned-at-funeral-in-hamilton-1.2814727 https://youtu.be/fWtNKJ22a8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWC5XyjKCO0 GLOBAL: Ottawa Shooting: Who tried to save Nathan Cirillo's life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVFesFLnbm0 GLOBAL: Nathan Cirillo's family delivers statement on his tragic death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FfnZgVeaKI  https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-story-of-the-strangers-who-tried-to-save-cpl-nathan-cirillo/ https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/remembering-cpl-nathan-cirillo/ https://www.thespec.com/opinion/contributors/2014/10/28/letter-to-the-son-of-corporal-nathan-cirillo.html https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-man-who-comforted-cpl-nathan-cirillo-in-his-last-moments-is-haunted-by-the-parliament-hill-shooting https://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/4948067-cpl-nathan-cirillo-mourned-as-kid-at-heart-/ https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2014/10/22/soldier_fatally_shot_on_parliament_hill_identified_as_nathan_cirillo_of_hamilton.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/22/soldier_slain_at_war_memorial_remembered_as_compassionate.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/12/21/slain_soldiers_cirillo_vincent_named_newsmaker_of_the_year.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/11/15/facebook-shuts-down-fake-profile-with-cpl-nathan-cirillos-photos-to-contact-women.html https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/remembering-cpl-nathan-cirillo-five-years-after-he-was-killed-1.4649966 VIDEO and AUDIO  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjZG099WJm4 3 cameras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrGqoISd-do Gunfire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cev1D4c1tqU EXCLUSIVE: Parliament Hill gunman shot 31 times https://youtu.be/v4wfzWJ2Hwo How Kevin Vickers managed to subdue Ottawa gunman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu5XX-OTunc Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers receives a standing ovation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OABF6RrNH6c RAW Ottawa shooting aftermath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1H98uSBIfw Ottawa shooting: CCTV shows suspect arriving at parliament - BBC News Radicalization Information https://www.ltai.info/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130703015057/https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/nsci-ecsn/rad/youth-jeune-eng.pdf https://www.scribd.com/book/323301024/What-You-Need-to-Know-About-ISIS-Terror-Religion-War-the-Caliphate-TERRORISM https://theglobalcoalition.org/en/ The Shooter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f5m-wjA6kA Video made by Parliament Hill shooter http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/michael-zehaf-bibeau-addict-drifter-walking-contradiction/ http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/michael-zehaf-bibeau-buried-in-libya http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/photos-emerge-nathan-cirillo-shooting-zehaf-bibeau-war-memorial http://canlii.ca/t/gf5kg http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/6-things-we-learned-about-michael-zehaf-bibeau-and-parliament-hill-shooting-1.2984759 https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/11/10/rcmp-hits-wall-in-search-for-origin-of-michael-zehaf-bibeaus-gun.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/24/parliament_gunman_bought_car_used_in_attack_for_650.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/24/what_propelled_michael_zehafbibeau_on_path_to_radicalization.html More Related Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_shootings_at_Parliament_Hill,_Ottawahttps://youtu.be/iqOrmnBp_nA Rushing to Cpl. Cirillo's aid http://www.canada.com/health/loved+ottawa+lawyer+describes+trying+save+nathan+cirillo+with+video/10318953/story.html https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/pblc-rprt-trrrsm-thrt-cnd-2018/index-en.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Canada https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/pblc-rprt-trrrsm-thrt-cnd-2018/index-en.aspx https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/odds-dying-terrorist-attack-zeeshan-ul-hassan-usmani https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/01/08/ottawa_shooting_hero_kevin_vickers_to_be_named_ambassador_to_ireland.html Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Episode 129: In May of 1914, before the outbreak of WWI, a Japanese steamship called the Komagatu Maru anchored in Burrard Inlet in the Vancouver harbour. There were 376 people aboard led by a man named Baba Gurdit Singh Sirhali. Mostly from the Punjab area of India they dreamt of emigrating to Canada for a better life. Thanks to exclusionary Canadian immigration policies meant to prevent immigration form certain countries, including India, the ship was not allowed to dock. They sat in harbour, without adequate food and water for more than two and half months awaiting court challenges. They were deported in late July and led out of the harbour under naval escort. On returning to India they were diverted away from Calcutta, and when they finally landed a riot broke out with British forces during which 29 unarmed passengers were shot, 20 of whom died. Sources and Further Reading: http://komagatamarujourney.ca/intro https://globalnews.ca/news/2708235/what-was-the-komagata-maru-incident-and-why-does-it-matter/ https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2016/05/18/komagata-maru-apology-house-commons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wx1KLtRgQY&feature=emb_logo Full Trudeau Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIZUpTxdYZw Canada Apologizes for Racist Incident 100 Years After Rejecting Komagata Maru Ship of 370 Immigrants https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17448727.2014.895546 The Sikh Formations journal article, GHADAR MOVEMENT: A LIVING LEGACY by Nishant Upadhyay https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/komagata-maru-racist-actions-1.5607242 https://pier21.ca/explore/online/tell-me-more-about/komagata-maru https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/canadian-immigration-acts-and-legislation https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Komagata_Maru https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-maru https://humanrights.ca/story/the-story-of-the-komagata-maru Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

In 1994 and 2011, after the Canucks lost in game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, parts of the city of Vancouver were taken over & damaged by drunken rioters