Brandon, Manitoba. The “Wheat City.” Sounds peaceful, right? A hub for the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair, the Ghost Rockets concert, and the upcoming Naija Summer Fest. But scratch the surface of this prairie community, and you’ll find a much more unsettling story. We’re talking about the kind of history that doesn’t make it onto the…
Here’s what nobody tells you about Campbell River. The same fog that wraps around Elk Falls at dawn, the same easygoing pace that makes this place feel like a refuge — it can also hide things. Ugly things. I’m Miles. Used to be a sexology researcher, now I write about the strange ecology of attraction…
Modern slavery isn’t something that happens in some far-off country. It’s happening right now in suburbs like Berwick and Point Cook, where a 2026 trial exposed a 61-year-old woman forced to sleep on stairs, eat leftovers, and endure brutal beatings. Between January and October 2022, she was held as a slave in a Melbourne home,…
