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Laura Palmer 'Island Crime'🔎💀
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https://islandcrime.ca/
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🔎 Can you take on this case?
💰How much money do you make?
✊🏼How big is your team?

I get a lot of questions about my #truecrime #podcast 'Island Crime.'

Here are some answers: islandcrime.ca/island-crime...

Working on Season 8 now...
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For over 130 years, Canadians either loved or hated Cherry Blossoms.
Considered a staple of the Christmas season, these candies were often found in stockings.
In January 2025, it was announced Cherry Blossoms were being discontinued.
This is their history.

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November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Today, we remember women hurt or killed by cowardly violence and stand with survivors and their loved ones.

As the 16 Days of Activism begins, we recommit to preventing violence, strengthening supports, and doing the work so every woman in our province feels safe.
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Terry Chase and his biological father, Dorman Joseph, have filed a lawsuit saying Chase was conceived when Joseph was sexually assaulted as a teen by a female supervisor at residential school on Vancouver Island.
The lost child: A sex assault, a secret and a family’s fight for justice for residential school abuse
Terry Chase and his biological father, Dorman Joseph, have filed a lawsuit saying Chase was conceived when Joseph was sexually assaulted as a teen by a female supervisor at residential school on Vancouver Island.
cheknews.ca
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Golly. 'Island Crime has been named to a year-end “Best Of” list! Huge thanks to Apple Podcasts for including the show among the best podcast series of 2025. 🙏
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Mohammed bin Salman should be in a courthouse facing justice for ordering the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Instead, he's at the White House.
After years away from Washington, Saudi crown prince gets warm embrace from Trump, US business
President Donald Trump is welcoming Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House. The de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia arrived Tuesday morning for his first White House visit since the 2018 killi...
apnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Neighbours gathered for a candlelight vigil and potluck Saturday night to honour Sherry Shelley, the 65-year-old Nanaimo woman whose disappearance police are treating as highly suspicious.
‘The whole front of the building is Sherry’: Candlelight vigil held as search continues for missing Nanaimo woman
Neighbours gathered for a candlelight vigil and potluck Saturday night to honour Sherry Shelley, the 65-year-old Nanaimo woman whose disappearance police are treating as highly suspicious.
cheknews.ca
November 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Bree's story is featured at the top of the Apple Podcast app this week. It still boggles my mind that a podcast created under my stairs in Port Alberni rubs shoulders with the New Yorker & the CBC. 🙏

Listen here:

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/i...
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Fellow podcasters, I am currently up for four awards at the Canadian Podcast Awards!
Voting ends on Nov. 22
Very much appreciate a vote in these categories :)👇
canpodawards.ca/vote
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Thanks to @cheknews.ca for sharing Bree's story with their audience. New details on Beacon Hill Park homicide revealed on Island Crime podcast cheknews.ca/island-crime...
New details on Beacon Hill Park homicide revealed on Island Crime podcast
A Vancouver Island crime podcaster’s latest season shares new information about Bree Gamble, the woman whose body was found in Beacon Hill Park in 2021 and remains an unsolved homicide case with littl...
cheknews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Grateful to be included in this new collection of Indie Canadian podcasts 🙏
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The trailer for my new season of Island Crime just dropped. It's about the life & death of Bree Gamble.
Bree was murdered in Victoria on March 3, 2021. Her case remains unsolved. 🙏 to Bree's family and wide circle of friends who spoke to me.

👂 here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The federal government has transferred nearly 200 acres of former Department of National Defence land to the Snuneymuxw First Nation near Nanaimo.
Canada transfers nearly 200 acres of land to Snuneymuxw First Nation near Nanaimo
The federal government has transferred nearly 200 acres of former Department of National Defence land to the Snuneymuxw First Nation near Nanaimo.
cheknews.ca
October 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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🚨Jim Carrey’s fresh out of fucks, and we are here for it!
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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UPDATE: The Mount Underwood wildfire has grown to 3,406 hectares as of Thursday morning.
cheknews.ca/crews-not-re...
'Buy us some time': Crews not relying on rain as Mount Underwood wildfire continues to burn over 3.4K hectares
Firefighting crews are expecting rain to fall over the Mount Underwood wildfire on Thursday, which will bring some relief but will not move the dial as far as efforts go.
cheknews.ca
August 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Everyone who has been angered by horrific images of starvation in Gaza needs to recognize that they wouldn’t see those images, and wouldn’t know about the atrocities their governments bankroll, without journalists risking their lives.

That is exactly why Israel is targeting and killing them.
August 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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August 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Orlando Bloom Spotted At Dinner With Angela Merkel theonion.com/orlando...
August 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Trump has never wavered in his attack on Canada. He has stated his intention to use economic tariffs to break our will. Rhetoric from MAGA officials continues to escalate.
The 35% threat is not about trade. This is war by other means.
We need to be strong.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ttd...
CHARLIE ANGUS - THIS IS MORE THAN A TARIFF WAR
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My partner in crime, Judge Wolf, has been involved in working with the community to get this up and running. So proud of the big guy. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Why a First Nation in B.C. moved a courthouse to the site of a former residential school | CBC News
The provincial courthouse in Tofino, B.C., has been moved to the site of a former residential school. The Tla-o-qui-aht spearheaded the move, as part of an effort to indigenize the criminal justice sy...
www.cbc.ca
July 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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The one thing that every Canadian knows - if you are confronted by ICE you don't ever slam on the brakes.
You put both hands on the wheel and drive right over ICE.
True. North. Strong. Free.
July 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is journalist Shelley Fralic. She died suddenly in 2021. I never met Shelley but knew of her many contributions. I'm so proud to be the recipient of the Jack Webster Foundation's 'Shelley Fralic Award.' Congrats to fellow recipients, Keith Baldrey & Sean Holman!
jackwebster.com/wp-content/u...
July 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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For Canada Day, allow me to share an earlier episode of the Record Store Day Podcast celebrating The Tragically Hip, featuring my conversations with Hip guitarist Rob Baker, and filmmaker Mike Downie.
(This is the Apple link but it’s available everywhere)
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
July 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Stunning how media has turned passage of the Abominable Bill into a will they-or-won't they romcom with a July 4th deadline for Cinderella to kiss the prince, rather than a situation in which multiple members of Congress say they're terrified they or their families will be killed if they cross Trump
June 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Ever ask yourself....I wonder what happened to TV News legend Kevin Newman? Listen up. Kevin and a team of volunteers have a new project you may find interesting.

Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/h...
How to get totally fact up
Podcast Episode · Elbows Up · 2025-06-24 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM