With the winter season approaching and a fourth wave of COVID-19, the chances of a person going missing are far from negligible. Using the story of one local man who went missing in June of this year, and testimonial from an aggregate website, a story emerges of how precarious the growing problem of missing people is during the pandemic.
BY JOSH KENNEDY In 2008, Nicole Ryan, a teacher living in Nova Scotia, tried to hire a hit man to murder her husband. The hit man turned out to be an undercover RCMP agent who had Ryan arrested for counselling to commit murder. During the trial in 2009, Ryan told the court that she feared for her life because her husband had been abusing her, and that the RCMP did nothing … Continued
By TYLER BATTEN According to missingkids.ca over 50,000 children go missing in Canada each year, and I’ve yet to see a single Child Find poster in Kitchener-Waterloo. Local community posting boards are filled with rental ads, used cars, event listings and lost pets but no lost children. Having visited every province in Canada through some of the most remote and rural communities, I’ve come upon towns … Continued
