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Episode 122 – This is for or the deceased victims, the injured, the families, the friends and Bluenosers everywhere who are hurting after the shooting rampage that shook the little province of Nova Scotia to its core on April 18 and 19, 2020. 

This is not who Nova Scotians are. This will not define us. 
#NovaScotiaStrong

The deceased are:
Lisa McCully
Greg Blair & Jamie Blair
Peter Bond & Joy Bond
John Zahl & Elizabeth Joanne Thomas
Dawn Madsen & Frank Gulenchyn
Jolene Oliver, Aaron Tuck & Emily Tuck
Corrie Ellison
Sean McLeod & Alanna Jenkins
Tom Bagley
Lillian Hyslop
Heather O’Brien
Kristen Beaton & baby Beaton
RCMP Cst. Heidi Stevenson
Joey Webber
Gina Goulet

Call the Nova Scotia RCMP tip line at 902-720-5959 with any information you have that can assist. Leave a detailed voicemail and an investigator will return your call.

[Share your condolences  – Government of Nova Scotia, Canada]
[Stronger Together NS Public Group | Facebook]
[RCMP, Nova Scotia (@RCMPNS) | Twitter]
[GLOBAL NEWS – Nova Scotia shooting | News, Videos & Articles]
[RCMP release detailed timeline of 13-hour shooting rampage – YouTube]
[Nova Scotia Remembers – YouTube]

Official list of sites to donate to help the families of the fallen:
[Heart Colchester – Heart Colchester]

Other Links:
[Familiar Stranger – YouTube]
[Caribbean Baseball Goodwill Tours]

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Episode 120 – For ages people have been drawn to Niagara Falls, the most famous group of waterfalls in North America, and maybe the world. As many as 20 million people per year visit to view the awesome power of nature as tens of millions of liters of water spectacularly pour over the falls every minute. There have been many accidental deaths, but there have been many drawn to the torrents for other darker reasons. Some come to end their own lives and others, the daredevils, to try to prove their ingenuity and courage can beat the falls. Some have failed in the attempt.

NOTE: There will be talk of suicide in this episode.

Sources and more information:
[Niagara: A History of the Falls by Pierre Berton]
[The River of Lost Souls: What We Might Learn From Niagara Falls Suicides by Michael Clarkson]
[Welcome to Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada | City of Niagara Falls, Canada]
[Niagara Falls,  Ontario,   Canada – World Waterfall Database]
[Niagara Falls – Niagara Falls Tourism Information]
[Facts About Niagara Falls | Live Science]
[Niagara Falls Facts & Information]
[On the Meaning  of Niagara – Brocku.ca]
[Daredevil Exhibit – Things to do | Niagara Falls Canada]
[Daredevils of Niagara Falls]
[List of objects that have gone over Niagara Falls – Wikipedia]
[Niagara Falls without water, 1969]
[Sounds of Niagara Falls • Niagara Whirlpool • Horseshoe Falls • American Falls • Bridal Veil Fall – YouTube]
[WNED PBS Documentaries | Daredevils of Niagara Falls | PBS]
[Daredevils of Niagara Falls]
[Niagara River – Life & Death on the river: Accidents & Rescues]
[Ed Delahanty Obituary]
[Stunters & Daredevils]

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Tina Michelle Fontaine was an Indigenous girl who had  a tough go right from the beginning. As she had run away before when 15-year-old Tina disappeared on August 9, 2014 the authorities did not treat it with much urgency at all. Tina’s family was worried sick and wanted more activity. It was not until it was too late that  the investigation began in earnest. Tina’s body was found wrapped in a duvet and floating in Winnipeg‘s Red River more than a week later.

Her death and the subsequent acquittal of the only suspect in Tina’s slaying are cited by some as catalysts for the national inquiry that was called to look into the massive amount of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada.

Sources and more information:
R. v. Cormier, 2010 ABCA 162 (CanLII), <http://canlii.ca/t/29qjl>
[Red River Girl: The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine by Joanna Jolly]
[Public Reports – Manitoba Advocate]
Place Where it Feels Like Home: The Story of Tina Fontaine – PDF
[Global News SEARCH: Tina Fontaine]
[Newspapers.com search: Tina Fontaine]
[CBC news topic tag Raymond Cormier trial]
[21 Feb 2018, N3 – The Gazette at Newspapers.com]
[27 Aug 2014, 10 – National Post at Newspapers.com]
[26 Sep 2014, 7 – National Post at Newspapers.com]
[BBC World Service – Assignment, Canada’s Red River Murders]
[Tina Fontaine’s 911 call | CBC.ca]
[Tina Fontaine | Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women – CBC.ca]
[Cormier speaks of last time he saw Fontaine in video shown to court – YouTube]
[Tina Fontaine: The life and the legacy | APTN InFocus – YouTube]
[Raymond Cormier found not guilty in death of Tina Fontaine  | Globalnews.ca]
[Bear Clan Patrol Inc – Home | Facebook]
[Drag The Red! Public Group | Facebook]
[Red River Women – BBC News]
[Pair sentenced to 9 years in beating death of Tina Fontaine’s dad | CBC News]
[Raymond Cormier spoke of wanting to have sex with Tina Fontaine days before her death, Crown tells court | CBC News]
[Tina Fontaine, 15, found in bag in Red River | CBC News]
[MMIW Final report]

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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), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hzbj5] >

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Episode 117 – In this away game Mike and Scott explore the wacky world of the origins of Hollow Earth movement. We hear about Captain John Cleves Symmes Jr‘s desires for an expedition to the hole in the North Pole, Cyrus Reed Teed‘s Hollow Earth cult in Florida and Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd‘s supposed secret journey into the hidden world filled with fanatical creatures and advanced aliens within the Antarctic continent.

NOTE: Scott’s audio is a little wonky as he had to record on location to maintain social distance.

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Sources and Further Reading:
[Flat-Earth martyr or victim? ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes dies in DIY rocket crash – National | Globalnews.ca]
[At the Earth’s Core (novel) – Wikipedia]
[Journey to the Center of the Earth – Wikipedia]
[goodreads.com – Hollow Earth: by David Standish]
[Hollow Earth – Wikipedia]
[The Philosophical transactions of the Royal society of London, from their commencement in 1665, in the year 1800]
[King Koresh | Sun | Stars]
[Fantastically Wrong: The Legendary Scientist Who Swore Our Planet Is Hollow | WIRED]
[Cyrus Reed Teed (1839-1908) – Find A Grave Memorial]
[John Cleves Symmes Jr. – Wikipedia]
[The Project Gutenberg eBook of Symmes’s Theory Of Concentric Spheres, by A Citizen of the United States.]
[The Earth is Hollow]
[Symzonia, Voyage of Discovery Index]
[Phantom of the Poles Index]
[Richard E. Byrd – Wikipedia]
[Admiral Richard B. Byrd’s, Diary Feb. Mar. 1947]
[Real footage of Admiral Richard E Byrd’s secret expedition part 2 the Russian leaks]
[Admiral Byrd’s North Pole Flight to “Agartha” (diary audiobook) – YouTube]
[The Inner Earth Realm of Agartha | Compass | Earth]
[The Hollow Earth Is Filled With Giants, Germans, and A Little Sun – Atlas Obscura]
[World Top Secret – Our Earth is Hollow !!! Decrypt | North Pole | South Pole]
[ADMIRAL BYRD’S SECRET JOURNEY BEYOND THE-POLES (Tim R. Swartz)]

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Episode 116 – The last time Heather Thomas‘s dad Pat saw his ten year old daughter alive was on the afternoon of October 1, 2000 when she went outside to play around their Cloverdale, BC, townhouse complex. After one the largest searches in RCMP history to that point, it was a hitchhiker who found Heather’s body floating facedown in Alouette Lake in Golden Ears Park. Heather had been murdered and the community was shocked when they found out it had been one of their own who had done the terrible deed.

Sources and Further Reading:

R. v. Ertmoed, 2006 BCCA 365 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/1p21p] >
R. v. Ertmoed, 2002 BCSC 806 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/1hbwd] >
R. v. Ertmoed, 2002 BCSC 1848 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/59tb] >
[vLex – R. v. Ertmoed (S.R.), (2006) 229 B.C.A.C. 168 (CA)]
[vLex]- R. v. Ertmoed (S.R.), [2002] B.C.T.C. 1847 (SC)] 
[Ertmoed gets life for murdering little girl – The Globe and Mail]
[The Cloverdale Market | Your Weekly Treasure Hunt]
[Resources & Research: Abducted then Murdered Children – protectchildren.ca]
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/85-002-x1998009-eng.pdf
https://www.protectchildren.ca/pdfs/C3P_AMC_PreliminaryFindings_en.pdf 

“Heather” by Pete Cross from the Behind the Yellow Tape blog

[5 Oct 2000, 20 – The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.com]
[6 Oct 2000, 3 – Surrey Leader at Newspapers.com]
[23 Oct 2000, 1 – The Province at Newspapers.com]
[30 Oct 2000, 21 – The Province at Newspapers.com]
[4 Nov 2000, 1 – The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.com]
[5 Nov 2000, 12 – The Province at Newspapers.com]
[7 Nov 2000, 1 – The Vancouver Sun at Newspapers.com]
[7 Nov 2000, 19 – The Windsor Star at Newspapers.com]
[8 Nov 2000, 3 – Surrey Leader at Newspapers.com]
[17 Nov 2000, 5 – Surrey Leader at Newspapers.com]
[30 Aug 2002, 6 – The Province at Newspapers.com]()

[The Life of a Curious Girl: Heather Thomas]
[Surrey child killer applies for early parole under faint-hope clause that has since been repealed – Surrey Now-Leader]

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Episode 115 – On the morning of May 24, 1987, 23-year-old Kenneth Parks walked into a police department covered in blood that was not just his own. Kenneth was disoriented and bleeding profusely from wounds to both his hands which were badly cut. Kenneth said “Oh my God, I just killed someone”; “I’ve just killed two people”. Kenneth was referring to his in-laws Barbara and Denis Woods of Scarborough. Police found Barbara deceased at the scene and Denis was severely injured, but survived. There was no question Kenneth had done it, but was he responsible? In a precedent setting case his defence team would claim that as Kenneth was sleepwalking when he committed the crime, he should not be held accountable.

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Sources & Further Reading
[Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker]
[Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman]
R. v. Parks (C.A.), 1990 CanLII 6954 (ON CA)
R. v. Parks, 1992 CanLII 78 (SCC), [1992] 2 SCR 871
[CanLII Connects – R v Parks Case Brief]
[Sleep Driving and Sleep Killing | Psychology Today]
[Sleepwalking Killers—And What They Tell Us About Sleep | Psychology Today]
[The Curious Case of Kenneth Parks – YouTube]
[(PDF) Homicidal Somnambulism: A Case Report]
[(PDF) Pushing the Margins of Responsibility: Lessons from Parks’ Somnambulistic Killing]
[Home – Canadian Sleep Society (CSS)]
[Sleepwalking Disorder Causes & Solutions – National Sleep Foundation]
[While You Were Sleepwalking]
[Automatism legal definition of automatism]
[Sleepwalking – Symptoms and causes – Mayo Clinic]
[The Sleepwalker Killing (TV Movie 1997) – IMDb]
[MACBETH, Act 5, Scene 1]
[2 Jul 1988, 90 – The Ottawa Citizen at Newspapers.com]
[25 Apr 1997, 48 – Star-Phoenix at Newspapers.com]
[6 Sep 1992, Page 11 – The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com]
[5 Jan 1991, 77 – The Gazette at Newspapers.com]
[22 Jun 2006, 17 – The Windsor Star at Newspapers.com]
[4 Jul 1988, 21 – Edmonton Journal at Newspapers.com]
[31 May 1988, 44 – Star-Phoenix at Newspapers.com]
[31 May 1988, 5 – The Ottawa Citizen at Newspapers.com]
[26 May 1988, 3 – The Ottawa Citizen at Newspapers.com]
[24 Nov 1990, 22 – The Leader-Post at Newspapers.com]
[Homicidal sleepwalking – Wikipedia]

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Episode 114 – On the morning of September 11, 2015, off-duty Truro, Nova Scotia police constable, Catherine Campbell, went to a Halifax bar to wind down after a tough work week. She was looking forward to a visit with an old friend that weekend but never got to see her. Catherine was murdered that night and left underneath a Halifax bridge by her killer.

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R. v. Garnier, 2016 NSPC 86 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hph6m] >
R. v Garnier, 2017 NSSC 102 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hpgff] >
R. v Garnier, 2017 NSSC 238 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hrgf9] >
R. v Garnier, 2017 NSSC 239 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hrgfb] >
R. v Garnier, 2017 NSSC 259 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hrgfc] >
R. v Garnier, 2017 NSSC 338 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hrgfd] >
R. v Garnier, 2017 NSSC 339 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hrgff] >
R. v Garnier, 2017 NSSC 341 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/hrgfh] >
R. v Garnier, 2018 NSSC 196 (CanLII), < [http://canlii.ca/t/httmt] >
TIMELINE [A complete look at the Crown’s case against Christopher Garnier  | Globalnews.ca]
[Catherine Campbell: obituary and death notice on InMemoriam]
[Catherine Campbell death a homicide | Local | News | SaltWire]
[Truro Police Service – Home | Facebook]
[Stellarton Fire Department – Our Crew]
[Home – Stellarton]
[Goodreads – Roll Up the Rim by Leo McKay Jr.]
[Stellarton – Wikipedia]
[HRP News | Halifax.ca]
[Holland College | Atlantic Police Academy]
[Christopher Garnier Court Exhibit 2 | Watch News Videos Online]
[Christopher Garnier Court Exhibit 1 | Watch News Videos Online]

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Episode 113 – This week Mike and Scott present some lighter fare in the form of a mystery that has persisted for generations surrounding a mysterious creature said to inhabit the waters of Lake Okanagan. Sightings of the serpent like cryptid called Opopogo or in Salish, n’ha-a-itk, continue to this day without an accepted scientific explanation for the phenomenon.

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Sources and Further Reading:
[Okanagan Nation Alliance – ałi kwu_swiwi-numtax, ałi kwu_suknaqinx, ałi axa/ L/tmxwula/xw.]
[Is Ogopogo real?  Incredible sightings in Lake Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada!]
[Extended interview with legend hunter about Ogopogo | Watch News Videos Online]
[‘It was like a giant snake’: Did Kelowna man capture video of Ogopogo?  | Globalnews.ca]
[RAW VIDEO: David Halbauer says he saw Ogopogo | Watch News Videos Online]
2011 [Possible Ogopogo sighting? – YouTube]
2018 [OGOPOGO SIGHTING July 10, 2018 cryptid – YouTube]
[Ogopogo – Wikipedia]
[Ogopogo: Canada’s Loch Ness Monster | Live Science]
[Cryptomundo » Ogopogo Photo Reward]
[Kelowna, BC, Canada – Ogopogo Lake Monster]
[The legendary Ogopogo lake monster, caught on video | Fox News]
[Lake Monsters: Ogopogo, Canadian Lake Monster]
[Ogopogo – Mythical Cryptid Lake Monster | Mythology.net]
[Stories of Ogopogo]
[Ogopogo the Chameleon | Skeptical Inquirer]
[Videos – Red Earth Uncovered]
[Legend of Ogopogo in the Okanagan Valley | Tourism Kelowna]
[Ogopogo – Okanagan Okanogan]
[36 Times Ep.32 East Meets West | Podbean]
[ogopogo | Mysterious Universe]
[Buy Canada #1292 – Ogopogo  (1990) 39¢ | Arpin Philately]
[Susan Louisa Moir Allison – Wikipedia]
[A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia: The Recollections of Susan Allison by Margaret A. Ormsby]
[People are Seeing Something: A Survey of Lake Monsters in the United States and Canada eBook: Denver Michaels: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store]
[Syilx – Wikipedia]
[“The Ogo-Pogo” Harry Fay (as George Berry) YouTube]
[Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra [Ogo Pogo – YouTube]
[Legendary giant sturgeon caught on British Columbia’s Fraser River | Watch News Videos Online]
[Beyond Loch Ness aka “Loch Ness Terror”]
[Beyond Loch Ness trailer – YouTube]
[“Ogopogo” Now Has a Price in His Head]
[Ogopogo protector passes on | News | kelownadailycourier.ca]

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