Richard Comte is an officer with the Winnipeg Police Service who initially began working for the force in 2002. In 2015, he found himself in quite a mess which he created all on his own. He and officer Andrew Tighe -Yes the same Andrew Tighe who was caught drunk driving- were responsible for investigating a sexual assault that had occurred at the Green Brier Inn which occurred in October of that same year. Richard’s unethical, threatening, problematic and questionable attempts at obtaining video...
Jul 17, 2023•14 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Josiah Henson is held in high regard in both Black Canadian and American history, despite being somewhat of a sellout. Born into enslavement in America, he was known on the plantation as a hard worker, and trustworthy. For this reason, he was able to work both on and off the property. He would often leave by himself, and for a long time made no attempt to run away. At one point, he even bartered his freedom with his enslaver, in exchange for helping over a dozen Black folks remain enslaved. Duri...
Jul 02, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 9
On April 11th, 2023, Paige Theriault-Fischer, the woman who murdered Hodan Hashi, had all charges stayed. The statement put out by the prosecution's office makes it clear that they have no intentions of reopening the case, or charging Paige with anything. Less than six months after stealing a life, Paige is free and clear; she gets to go on with the rest of her life as if nothing happened, meanwhile the Hashi's lives are permanently altered. I had the privilege of heading from the Hashi family d...
May 01, 2023•30 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Marie Joseph Angelique is hands down one of the most misunderstood women in Canadian history. She was enslaved at a young age in Portugal before being forcibly transported to Montreal. Marie knew that her enslavement was wrong and immoral. She regularly rebelled in every way that she could and would admit to everything she did, without hesitation. She was the living embodiement of rebellion, and white Montrealers despised her for it. When the great Montreal fires of 1734 occurred, everyone was q...
Feb 18, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Viola was an extremely successful business woman who did everything in her power to propel Black women forward during a time period when they were intentionally being left behind. Viola Desmond was one of the many Black women who bravely and actively fought Canadian segregation, in a time where many were denying the fact that it even existed. When she eventually made her way to the Roseland Theatre, one of the many places in Nova Scotia that had unofficial segregation, she sat in the whites only...
Feb 08, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 6
In September of 1996, 15-year-old Melanie left her friend’s home at around 2AM to make the 10 minute walk home. While walking home, she vanished without a trace. While public pressure was high, it seemed as if everything was being done to bring closure to her family. Once the public pressure lessened, the Ethier family was left doing the majority of the work themselves, of course with community support. Police ignored countless eyewitness testimonies that could have led them closer to finding Me...
Feb 06, 2023•22 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Carrie Best grew up in Nova Scotia in a time where racism, segregation, and controlling stereotypes ran the province. Her parents were never given the opportunity to pursue formal education, and so they encouraged all of their children to go after what they wanted, regardless of the obstacles that were placed in their way due to systemic racism. Carrie's business and education prospects were extremely limited to 'women's work', but she refused to be forced into that box, she was a talented write...
Feb 04, 2023•20 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Thornton and Lucie Blackburn were an enslaved couple who changed both Canadian and American history forever. They met while enslaved, fell in love, got married and managed to escape not once, but twice after finding out their enslaver had plans to permanently separate them. Everything they did was rooted in love and care for themselves, each other, and their Black community. Once they made their way to Toronto, they created the first Taxi company to exist on 'Canadian' soil. They were extremely ...
Feb 04, 2023•24 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Marie Marguerite Rose was enslaved her whole life, but she was enslaved in Canada for two decades. The Loppinot family whom enslaved her, forced her to work as a house slave. She cleaned, she cooked and she took care of their 12 children, all against her will. After 19 years of enslavement, she was set free by her enslaver but the reason why is unknown. In two years of freedom, Marie fell in love, she got married, she rented a home with an Indigenous man -who had also recently been freed from en...
Feb 03, 2023•17 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In an effort to build up the population in Canada in the late 1700’s, the Canadian government allowed white folks from all over to bring their ‘property’ into Canada, and do what they pleased with it. This included stolen, enslaved Africans. Chloe Cooley was one of the first recorded women in Canadian history to publicly oppose, and resist her enslaver. The Canadian government acted appalled at Adam Vrooman’s public abuse of his ‘property’, and so they were quite literally shamed into ending the...
Feb 02, 2023•21 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Sean Cassidy is a Sargent with the Winnipeg Police Service who has been working with the force for over 20 years. In the past five years, he has been hit with a slue of charges based on three different incidents for crimes from fraud to assault causing serious bodily harm and many in-between. Sean has received virtually no consequences for his actions despite the immense amounts of harm he has caused to the very community he claims to be serving. His actions continue to be justified and he conti...
Jan 09, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 12
On December 25th, 2017, Andrew Berry, and his two daughters 6-year-old Chloe and 4-year-old Aubrey were found in their Oak Bay British Columbia apartment brutally stabbed. When first responders arrived on the scene, each of them were in a separate rooms and the apartment was in absolute chaos with blood everywhere. It was clear that something horrible had happened to this family and they had all been attacked. The reason why was unclear, who did it was also unclear, and why they chose to attack ...
Jan 02, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 11
After the enslavement era ended in Canada, rich white families had no one to tend to their home, raise their children, and take care of all things domestic. This coincided with the second wave of feminism that rocked the country and had white women rebelling against everything domestic, anything that was influenced by patriarchal standards and ideals. The Canadian government, and their wealthy friends realized that they needed to fix this labour gap, and so they turned to the Caribbean islands t...
Dec 25, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 10
On Saturday November 5th, 2022, Black Somali Muslim Canadian woman, Hodan Hashi, was brutally attacked and murdered by Paige Theriault-Fisher in a busy nightclub in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Despite having clear video evidence proving Paige took Hodan's life, the initial charge of second degree murder was downgraded to manslaughter, and in a place like Saskatoon, the only reason that happened is institutional racism. Paige was let out on $5,000 bail, and her case has been adjudicated unti...
Dec 25, 2022•15 min•Season 2Ep. 9
The Ant Hill Kids is one of the most brutal, gruesome cults of all time. But, because of its Canadian origin, it is one that is rarely ever discussed. Roch Therriault was born and raised in an abusive religious family, he quickly became a product of his environment. Learning how to manipulate those around him, and using religion as a means of doing so. He studied church leaders, and modeled his preaching's after them. He was a charming, charismatic man, who used that to his complete advantage. B...
Dec 18, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 8
On November 29th, 2022, I and many others reported that Daejhanae Jackson had been arrested in the femicide of Shanquella Robinson. This information came from Gerardo Zuniga, a Mexican investigative journalist from MetropoliMX. He was the reporter who leaked the exclusive police report which stated that events had varied a lot from what the autopsy said. Nobody had any reason to doubt him, until authorities on both sides of the border refused to confirm Daejhanae had been arrested, and the websi...
Dec 12, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Canada has had very discriminatory immigration policies, and continues to have them. In 1911, a ban on Black immigration was proposed and approved by the Liberal Party of Canada. The push to pass this law, came from the increase in attacks and murders against Black folks in Oklahoma. They were searching for a new place to live, and saw Canada as an option. The country was pushing for an increase in immigrants to help colonize the west, BUT they did not want Black people. The government of Canada...
Dec 12, 2022•36 min•Season 2Ep. 6
On October 28th, 2022 Shanquella Robinson and a group of her six 'friends' (Khalil Cook, Malik Dwyer, Wenter Donovan, Alysse Hyatt, Daejhanae Jackson, and Nazeer Wiggins) left for their weekend Mexican vacation which they had been planning since June. Less than 24 hours after arriving in Cabo, Shanquella's parents back in Charlotte, North Carolina received a call from Khalil that their beloved daughter had passed away due to alcohol poisoning. Her parents did not at all believe this, and yet Mex...
Dec 04, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 5
The Little Black Sambo is a wildly racist, and problematic children's book written by Helen Bannerman. The book was first published in 1899, and it achieved international levels of success almost immediately. It even recieved an animated film adaptation. It quickly worked its way into Canadian classrooms and libraries, where teachers praised the book for its representation, and it acted as a vessel for implementing racist ideals and imagery into the minds and hearts of non-Black children at an e...
Nov 28, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 4
This week we are discussing the Salmon Arm teenage love triangle that went wrong. 17-year-old Monica Sikorski was dating 22-year-old Tyler Myers. Both individuals were born and raised in Salmon Arm British Columbia, a very small town, where everyone knew each other fairly well. To others, Tyler and Monica seemed like an extremely happy couple, and Tyler absolutely adored Monica. He often talked about wanting to build a better life for not only himself, but for Monica as well. Sometime in 2008, M...
Nov 21, 2022•25 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Hogan's Alley was a thriving Black community in Vancouver that was created in the Strathcona area after Black folks were unable to secure housing elsewhere due to racism. This community was small, but extremely successful and vital to supporting the growth of Black women and their entrepreneurial endeavors. Vie Moore and Nora Hendrix -the grandmother of Jimi Hendrix- were vital and well loved members of the community who did what they could to ensure that everyone felt welcomed. Hogan's Alley di...
Nov 14, 2022•32 min•Season 2Ep. 2
On Saturday, November 5th 2022, Hodan Hashi was brutally murdered at LIT Nightclub in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan by Paige Theriault-Fisher in a club full of people. No one stepped in to help, no one stopped the fight, instead, people pulled out their phones to record the last moments of Hodan’s life, while encouraging Paige to continue her brutal attack which would result in Hodan’s death. After everyone rushed out of the club, those who took videos immediately posted them across all social media p...
Nov 13, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Peter Nygard is an infamous Winnipegger who used his money, and power for his own sick and twisted greed and fulfillment. He is often referred to as the Canadian Jeffery Epstein, due to his vast sexual based assaults, the fact that he had many high status friends and colleagues (ranging from former U.S. President George Bush, Actor Sean Connery, Former Prime Ministers Jean Chretein, and Brian Mulroney, world famous pop star Michael Jackson, and more), but primarily the way he used the Caribbean ...
Apr 24, 2022•56 min
Peter Nygard is an infamous Winnipegger who used his money, and power for his own sick and twisted greed and fulfillment. He is often referred to as the Canadian Jeffery Epstein, due to his vast sexual based assaults, the fact that he had many high status friends and colleagues (ranging from former U.S. President George Bush, Actor Sean Connery, Former Prime Ministers Jean Chretein, and Brian Mulroney, world famous pop star Michael Jackson, and more), but primarily the way he used the Caribbean ...
Apr 23, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Peter Nygard is an infamous Winnipegger who used his money, and power for his own sick and twisted greed and fulfillment. He is often referred to as the Canadian Jeffery Epstein, due to his vast sexual based assaults, the fact that he had many high status friends and colleagues (ranging from former U.S. President George Bush, Actor Sean Connery, Former Prime Ministers Jean Chretein, and Brian Mulroney, world famous pop star Michael Jackson, and more), but primarily the way he used the Caribbean ...
Apr 21, 2022•50 min
In 1992, in response to the verdict in the L.A. based Rodney King case as well as the murder of 22 year old Raymond Constantine Lawrence, the Toronto based Black Action Defense Committee (or BADC) decided to organize and lead a peaceful protest. Due to the actions of young white men, the protest quickly turned violent and Black folks bared the brunt of the backlash, while the white perpetrators were able to skate by with ease. The Toronto Police used the 1992 protest as a justification for furth...
Apr 13, 2022•38 min
In 2017, 23-year old Cody Severight was crossing a street downtown when he was hit by drunk driving Winnipeg Police Detective Justin Holz. Justin had been out drinking with buddies from just before 5PM until 8PM when he decided to get into his car and speed through the streets of downtown Winnipeg reaching 100KM/H. After hitting Cody, Justin didn't stop, he didn't call 911, he sped up to 129KM/H, leaving Cody in the street to suffer and eventually die. Justin was eventually formally charged, and...
Apr 06, 2022•40 min
The Manitoban Independent Investigative Unit was created after the urgent public pressure was mounting on the province to act after the murder of Crystal Taman at the hands of Derek Harvey Zenk. For a long time it was a concept and on June 18th of 2015, it actually became active. This unit ideally, was created to hold police accountable for this mis-actions, especially when officers act as judge, jury and executioner as they too often do. In practice, all this unit has done is acted as another l...
Mar 24, 2022•37 min
Crystal Sveinson was a 40-year-old mother and wife who was struck and killed by drunk driver Derek Harvey-Zenk (Who later legally changed his named to HarveyMordenZenk) in the early hours of Feburary 25th, 2005. At the time of the crash, Derek was a constable with the Winnipeg Police Service and was good friends with East. St. Paul police chief at the time, Harry Bakema. Derek was covered and protected by the East St. Paul police service, the Winnipeg Police Service and essentially all parties w...
Jan 12, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 9
The Highway Of Tears is a strip of land which is approximately 724km long in British Columbia that stretches from Prince Rupert to Prince George. Since 1969, and possibly sooner, primarily Indigenous women, estimates are anywhere between 18 and over 40, have gone missing or have been found murdered along the Highway Of Tears. It is an area where serial killers both known and unknown are active. They continue to be active with no consequences and no real concern of being caught because majority o...
Dec 08, 2021•2 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 7
