true crime
The Jolly Millionaire
When a Ponzi scheme artist moved to rural Nova Scotia
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The Trials of Philip Halliday
Did an out-of-work fisherman from Digby knowingly smuggle one and a half tons of cocaine into Spain?
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When Paul Bernardo Stalked My Neighbourhood
What it was like to grow up in a community that lived in fear of the Scarborough Rapist
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Trials and Error
Bad forensic evidence and junk science continue to send innocent people to jail
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Rough Justice
Locking up offenders does little to prevent crime or make us safer. The history behind our impulse to punish
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On the Margins of Freedom
An essay by a Canadian convicted of murder
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Does Canada’s Penal System Create Dangerous Offenders?
Only two women have been labelled dangerous offenders in Canada. Could Renée Acoby be the third?
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Life on Nut Island
With four strokes of a pen, Ontario police officer Ron Heinemann set in motion the disbandment of an elite crime-fighting unit
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Master of the Guillotine
An Algerian executioner put 200 men to death. He has never lost a moment’s sleep
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