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Is Mark Lindsay Nuts?
Mark Damien Lindsay, son of former Edmonton Police Chief John Lindsay, told a court in Kamloops, British Columbia on 15 August, 2012 that he killed his girlfriend, 31-year-old Dana Turner of Fort...
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A Dead Man’s Prints
The day after eco-activist Wiebo Ludwig died, the RCMP wanted to open his coffin and take his fingerprints one final time. Wiebo Ludwig, who died on 9 April 2012 at his log cabin near Hythe, in...
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Liana White’s Mother Guilty of Assault
Maureen Kelly, Liana White and Baby Ashley The mother of murder victim Liana White has pleaded guilty to assault charges in Ontario. 58-year-old Maureen Kelly of Edmonton pleaded guilty to assaulting...
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Broadcaster Ed Mason’s Heart Attack
One of North America’s premier police reporters dodged a bullet on Saturday night, 29 September 2012. Ed Mason of 630-CHED Radio in Edmonton, Alberta, suffered a heart attack at his home in nearby...
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Was Tania Murdered?
Tania Murrell Tania Murrell [pronounced Tohn-ya Murl] was a 6-year-old Edmonton, Alberta girl who vanished on a bitterly cold day in January 1983. No one has heard from Tania in three decades. No one...
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A Hero Named Paul
19 October 2012 marked the 28th anniversary of a fatal plane crash in Northern Alberta where a petty criminal emerged a hero. 27-year-old Paul Archambault was one of four people who survived the crash...
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Prisoner 88 [Part Two]
In June 1990, Sigmund Sobolewski returned to Auschwitz — largest of the Nazi concentration camps — where more than one million people, mainly Jews, were murdered during World War Two. Sobolewski had...
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Prisoner 88 [Part One]
On the morning of Friday, 14 June 1940, more than 700 civilian prisoners of the Third Reich boarded a passenger train in southern Poland for a half-day journey to Oswiecim, a town near the German...
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An Indian Protest : 1988
Word came on 28 January 2013 that a well-known Indian band in northern Alberta was throwing its support behind Idle No More, the Canadian Native protest movement. Members of the Lubicon Cree had set up...
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eBeer!!
Countless stories have been written about the world’s most widely consumed alcoholic beverage: BEER! Well, here’s another yarn … with an entirely different twist. The true story — which would bring...
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A Muckraker and a Clerk
Before faxes, pagers, cell phones, computers, the Internet, emails, ‘hacking’ — and sites like Wikileaks — gumshoe reporters found ways to get their hands on secret and sometimes damaging government...
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The Man Who Mailed Himself Out of Jail
The Man Who Mailed Himself Out of Jail is the incredible, true story of what is perhaps the World’s greatest prison escape artist, Richard Lee McNair. Many know the story of McNair’s escape from a...
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Censored!
Award-winning broadcaster Dave Rutherford was fired from his job as mid-morning talk show host on 770 CHQR Radio [Calgary] and 630 CHED Radio [Edmonton] on Tuesday, 25th of June 2013. The stations are...
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Art Crighton 1917 – 2013
A Canadian bomber pilot imprisoned at Stalag Luft III — site of the famous ‘Great Escape’ in World War II — has died. Art Crighton was 96. He passed away on Sunday, the 14th of July 2013 at the Kipnes...
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Crime, Punishment, Salvation
In three decades of reporting news, the following story was one of the most difficult to write. It is about a man often described as Canada’s most notorious pedophile. From the mid-1960s to the...
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Shafted
About two dozen sympathizers braved minus-10 temperatures to attend a vigil on Wednesday, 22 January 2014 to mark the tenth anniversary of a suspicious death at the Law Courts Building in Edmonton,...
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Small Town Radio in the 1960s
They say you can never go back, and that may be true. But just for the hell of it, let’s fire up the old Time Machine and slip back half a century … to the “decade that shaped a generation” — The...
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Used, Abused and Betrayed
A young television reporter in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. found out the hard way that thinking “outside the box” — while still abiding by the rules — can come at a price. On Saturday morning, the...
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Coming to a Sky Near You: a Quadcopter
No matter where you live on this planet, there’s a good chance you’ll soon spot one of those new fangled, remote-control quad-copters in the wild blue yonder. You might catch the computerized craft –...
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Don Hume: Unsung Hero
Heroes amaze and influence us. We see greatness in them. Those inspirational, shining, larger-than-life demigods have become part of our lives somehow. And like a first love, we never forget ‘em. My...
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