The Muckraker and a Clerk

Before faxes, computers, the Internet, email, cell phones, texting, GPS — and sites like Google, Wikipedia and Wikileaks — investigative reporters found ways to get secret and sometimes damaging government Continue reading →

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 Continue reading →

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 Continue reading →

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, Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

A Hero Named Paul

The 19th of 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 Continue reading →

Was Tania Murdered?

  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 since, and Continue reading →

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 Continue reading →

Liana White’s Mother Guilty of Assault

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 two people on a farm near Mar, 230 Continue reading →

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 Continue reading →