"When Rene M. Caisse of Bracebridge, Ontario, chose nursing as a career, she couldn't have imagined that she would spend much of her life embroiled in a controversy that persisted even past her death in 1978. All the fuss was over Essiac, the herbal cancer remedy she created and…
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"When Rene M. Caisse of Bracebridge, Ontario, chose nursing as a career, she couldn't have imagined that she would spend much of her life embroiled in a controversy that persisted even past her death in 1978. All the fuss was over Essiac, the herbal cancer remedy she created and…
This story of Rene M. Caisse of Bracebridge, Ontario, describes her extraordinary perseverance to obtain official recognition of her herbal cancer remedy she called Essiac, her name spelled backwards. Rene Caisse was thrust into a life-long medical-legal-political controversy th…
Many have called it the most important event of the twentieth century - and Canada played a key role. When Canadian troops landed at Juno Beach, they faced some of the fiercest opposition of the attack, and yet they managed to advance further inland than all the other Allied for…
Norman "Red" Ryan was a notorious bank robber, safecracker, and killer. He escaped from Kingston Penitentiary twice - first by force, and then years later by gulling the credulous into believing that he was "reformed." The dupes of Ryan's second emancipation included the prison'…
Juan Pujol, a young Spanish antifascist, became agent GARBO, a master of deception and intrigue. His story contains all the hallmarks of classic spy adventure - enciphered messages, secret inks, items concealed in cakes - culminating in one of the greatest strategic deceptions i…
"Juan Pujol, a young Spanish anti-fascist, ultimately became Agent GARBO - the greatest double-agent of World War II. Initially recruited by German intelligence, GARBO came to London after a series of adventures to work for the British. Using a ring of invented sub-agents, he an…
Juan Pujol, a young Spanish antifascist, became agent GARBO, a master of deception and intrigue. His story contains all the hallmarks of classic spy adventure - enciphered messages, secret inks, items concealed in cakes - culminating in one of the greatest strategic deceptions i…
