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20 Jul

Part 1 — Justice Prolonged: The Murder of Christine Jessop

Episode 428: On October 3, 1984, nine-year-old Christine Jessop stepped off a school bus in Queensville, Ontario, and walked toward home. She was never seen alive again. Her body was found on New Year's Eve, fifty-six kilometres away. She had been sexually assaulted and stabbed. What followed was one of the most consequential criminal proceedings in Canadian history — and the quiet destruction of a man who lived next door. This is Part One of a two-part series. Sources: Kirk Makin, Redrum the Innocent (1992) — Viking Canada. Report of the Kaufman Commission on Proceedings Involving Guy Paul Morin — Full text (netk.net.au) The Canadian Encyclopedia — Guy Paul Morin Case Innocence Canada — Guy Paul Morin case file Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions — Guy Paul Morin Library of Parliament — Wrongful Convictions in Canada (2020) Bruce MacFarlane — "Wrongful Convictions: The Effect of Tunnel Vision and Predisposing Circumstances in the Criminal Justice System" (2006) Federal Prosecution Service — Chapter 5: Jailhouse Informers Federal Prosecution Service — Chapter 8: DNA Evidence The Canadian Encyclopedia — Morin Inquiry Report Kaufman Report — Wikipedia summary Globe and Mail — "Morin Informant Named Dangerous Offender" (2007) CBC Digital Archives — Guy Paul Morin acquitted Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation Williams Treaties — Government of Canada Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2 days ago

Where is Parker Wells? (Last Seen in Calgary, AB | July 16, 2026)

On July 16, 2026, 11-year-old Parker Wells disappeared from his day home in Calgary. Parker is autistic, neurodivergent and nonverbal, and operates more like a 2-3 year old. His disappearance has prompted an enormous search involving police, firefighters, search-and-rescue teams and hundreds of volunteers. Surveillance footage has helped investigators trace some of Parker’s movements, but major questions remain about where he went and how he has remained missing despite such an extensive effort. In this episode of Canadian Gothic, we will focus on what is currently known, what remains unclear and how the public can help find Parker Wells. Episode Links: Calgary Police Service Map of Parker’s Movements - https://content.presspage.com/uploads/1485/c693dabe-0cd8-4239-b58f-de87ebdb92fb/1920_parkermap.jpg?10000 Send a voicememo to the show: ⁠https://www.thecanadiangothic.com/contact⁠ Subscribe to the show: ⁠https://www.thecanadiangothic.com/subscribe⁠ Musical Theme: Noir Toyko by Monty Datta Social Links: Website: ⁠https://www.thecanadiangothic.com/⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/TheCanadianGothic⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thecanadiangothic/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6 Jul

Wildfire: The Day Lytton Burned

Episode 426: On June 29th, 2021, Lytton, British Columbia, recorded the highest air temperature in Canadian history: 49.6 degrees Celsius. The next day, the town burned to the ground in under two hours, killing two people and destroying more than 150 homes and businesses across the Village of Lytton and the neighbouring Lytton First Nation reserves. Nearly four years later, the cause of the fire remains officially undetermined, the recovery has become its own bureaucratic disaster, and a class-action lawsuit against Canada's two largest railways is still working its way through the BC Supreme Court. This episode tells the story of the heat, the fire, the two people who didn't make it out, and the years-long collapse of the rebuild that followed. Later in the episode, Mike sits down with Tim Conrad of Butterfly Effect Communications to talk crisis communications — what the first hours of a disaster like Lytton demand, and what it takes to keep a fractured, grieving community informed years into a recovery that never seems to end. Sources: An Examination of the Lytton, British Columbia Wildland-Urban Fire Destruction Provincial Support for the Village of Lytton's Wildfire Recovery Lytton Wildfire | Wikipedia B.C. Man Says He Watched in Horror as Lytton Wildfire Claimed the Lives of His Parents | CBC News BC Coroners Service Confirms 2 Deaths in Lytton Wildfire | CBC News Man Who Lost His Parents in Lytton, B.C., Fire Wants to Go Home | CTV News RCMP Investigation Unable to Determine Cause of 2021 Wildfire That Destroyed Most of Lytton, B.C. | CBC News Track Cleared for Class-Action Suit 4.5 Years After Wildfire Swallows Most of Lytton | Williams Lake Tribune Remembering Lytton, the Town Wiped Out by Wildfire | The Walrus ⠀Guest: Butterfly Effect Communications Company Website Wildfires, Floods, and Chaos Communications Tim’s Podcast Inside an Emergency Operations Centre | Butterfly Effect Communications Video Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Jul

Encounters With Creeps - Volume 34

In Encounters with CREEPS, Canadian Gothic listeners are invited to share their unsettling experiences with the many CREEPS lurking in everyday life. In this episode, Jordan and Madelayne unpack the 34th volume of your Encounters with CREEPS. This time we’ve got a CREEP in a bunny mask, a CREEP waiting to use the bathroom in Yorkshire, UK, a CREEP in the woods, and so much more. Submit your creep encounter: ⁠thecanadiangothic.com/contact⁠ Series Links: Encounters with Creeps series archive: ⁠https://www.thecanadiangothic.com/encounters-with-creeps⁠ Subscribe to the show: ⁠https://www.thecanadiangothic.com/subscribe⁠ Musical Theme: Noir Toyko by Monty Datta Social Links: Website: ⁠https://www.thecanadiangothic.com/⁠ Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/TheCanadianGothic⁠ Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thecanadiangothic/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
13 Jul

Bridget Marquardt: Ghost Bunny

The Playboy Mansion's hauntings continue in Part Two of our conversation with Bridget Marquardt , Ghost Bunny podcast host, certified paranormal investigator, and former star of The Girls Next Door. This episode uncovers the mansion's original ghost story, the legend of Mrs. Letts, said to have fallen to her death from the balcony just outside Bridget's old bedroom, and the decades of strange encounters that followed in her wake. We go deeper into the mansion's most unsettling spaces, the game house where pinball machines and arcade games reportedly switch on when no one near them, the locked library where Cooper Hefner once vanished from an empty, sealed room, and the night Holly Madison's dog Panda was found frozen and unreachable on a couch, clearly reacting to something no one else could see. Bridget also shares her path into formal paranormal investigation, training under renowned researcher Troy Taylor and conducting her certification's final case study on the Playboy Mansion itself with legendary investigator Barry Taff. Then she takes us somewhere even more frightening than Hefner's estate: a sleepless, terrifying night in the most haunted room at the top of the stairs at Myrtles Plantation, Louisiana that is widely regarded as the most haunted house in America. New to the series? Catch Part One first. Loved this one? Follow Haunted Canada wherever you listen, leave a rating, and share it with a fellow ghost-story lover. Guest info: Bridget Marquardt Ghost Bunny Podcast Instagram: @BridgetMarquardt @GhostBunnyPodcast Girls Next Level Podcast with Holly Madison Email me your ghost story: hauntedcanadapodcast@gmail.com Support the Show: Donate:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ buymeacoffee.com/hauntedcanadapodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Donate: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click Donate⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to Haunted Canada Podcast Social Links: Haunted Canada / Edmonton Ghost Tours TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@hauntedcanadapodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@edmontonghosttours⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedCanadaPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4 May

Murder Behind Vinyl: The Tragic Death of Lukas Strasser-Hird

Episode 417: In the early hours of November 23, 2013, 18-year-old Lukas Strasser-Hird was violently beaten behind the Vinyl nightclub in Calgary, in an alley off 10th Avenue Southwest. He was rushed to the hospital, but the injuries were too severe, and he died later that morning from multiple stab wounds and massive blood loss. Walk with us through the events that led from a night out at the club to one of Calgary’s most closely watched murder cases, and examine how the chaos in that alley would ripple through the city, the courtroom, and the lives left behind. Sources: Lukas Strasser-Hird | Global News, Videos & ArticlesR.I.P Austin Lukas Strasser-Hird | FacebookR v Cabrera, 2019 ABCA 184 (CanLII)R v Cabrera, 2021 ABCA 291 (CanLII)R v Gervais, 2019 ABQB 344 (CanLII)R. v. Shlah, 2019 SCC 56 (CanLII), [2019] 4 SCR 136FM010_Appellant_Franz-Emir-Cabrera SCC File No.: 38677Lukas Strasser-Hird - Obituary | Calgary HeraldThe final homecoming of Lukas Strasser-Hird - National | Global News1st-degree murder conviction upheld for Calgary man in swarming death - CalgaryNathan Gervais sentenced to life with no parole for 25 years in Lukas Strasser-Hird swarming death - Calgary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
6 Jul

Behind the Gates: The Ghosts of the Playboy Mansion

Before she became one of the most recognized faces on reality television, Bridget Marquardt lived inside one of the most famous and allegedly most haunted estates in the world. In this episode the former Playboy Bunny, Girls Next Door star, and Ghost Bunny podcast host shares the paranormal stories, legends, and unexplained encounters linked to America's most famous mansion. Guest info: Bridget Marquardt Ghost Bunny Podcast Instagram: @BridgetMarquardt @GhostBunnyPodcast Girls Next Level Podcast with Holly Madison Email me your ghost story: hauntedcanadapodcast@gmail.com Support the Show: Support - Buy Me A Coffee Donate: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click Donate⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to Haunted Canada Podcast Social Links: Haunted Canada / Edmonton Ghost Tours Haunted Canada TikTok Edmonton Ghost Tours TikTok Haunted Canada YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08/10/2023 · Bonus

Oct 8: Katharine Birbalsingh, Strictest Headmistress in Britain

Teachers across Canada experiencing violence and harassment from students. Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario reports 77% of ETFO members have personally experienced or witnessed violence against staff members. We talk to Britain's 'strictest headmistress' about how students must behave in school or face consequences. Also, how at her inner city London school the emphasis is on the 3R's. The approach is yielding great success. although not without its critics. Guest: Katharine Birbalsingh. Headmistress, Michaela Community School, Wembley, London, UK. (spent some years of her youth in the Toronto area attending school here) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4 days ago

KEEP CANADA WEIRD - 223 - 2026/07/24 - McRetirement, Seniors Behaving Badly, Coffee Cup Library, Road Work

In Keep Canada Weird Jordan and Aaron Airport explore the weird and offbeat Canadian news stories from the past week. In this episode your hosts discuss; A McLegend in Regina Hangs Up the Golden Arches Two Seniors Behaving Badly A Community Coffee Cup Library in New Brunswick Unexpected Road Work in Montreal Series Links Keep Canada Weird Series: https://www.thecanadiangothic.com/keep-canada-weird Send a voice memo: www.thecanadiangothic.com/contact Join the Keep Canada Weird Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepcanadaweird Provide feedback and comments on the episode: thecanadiangothic.com/contact Subscribe to the show: thecanadiangothic.com/subscribe Contact: Website: https://www.thecanadiangothic.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheCanadianGothic Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecanadiangothic/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/thecanadiangothic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4 days ago

Global News Hour at 6: July 23, 2026

Global News Hour at 6: July 23, 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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