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David Snow is one of the few to be given dangerous offender classification (the offender can appeal every few years and the status is reviewed every few years) here in Canada. In April 2026, he was once again denied parole.

Snow lived in Orangeville, Ontario. His peculiarities were well-noted as was his hatred of women, but this was brushed off by a community as being eccentric where he owned an antiques shop (I had been in there a few times). Little did anyone suspect that the infamous summer house/cottage burglar, "The House Hermit", who stole valuables was David Snow, who would then turn into "The Cottage Killer". He did something to a female victim, Nancy Blackburn, that I have only read about once before and that was by Rex Krebs. Snow hogtied Nancy Blackburn to a pole and carried the pole around as Krebs did with his victims to satisfy themselves with maximum suffering of the victims (dislocation of joints and their terror and pain).

After torturing - and raping Nancy repeatedly - then killing both Blackburns, he fled to Toronto and then to Vancouver and area in British Columbia and started a bizarre and violent crime spree. He kidnapped a woman from her workplace, hogtied her in the woods at a remote campsite and violently sexually assaulted her over eight days (she was rescued when he was caught). After several violent assaults or attempted assaults he was caught raping a woman who he had tied a plastic bag over her head at her workplace while he was raping her.

>Snow himself acknowledged that resolving his outstanding first-degree murder charge and moving to a minimum-security prison are necessary steps before any form of release can be considered, the board report noted. https://www.caledonenterprise.com/news/caledon-cottage-killer-denied-parole/article_23c874e8-b367-50ae-a49e-c3a1f4439306.html

Then I had to listen to a song from so long ago and some tears. We were sitting by a fire next to the lake in '73 and one guy (an older Brit who had been a Beatnik in London...what a time to be in London! ) had his guitar and he had hundreds of songs that he could sing and play like The Boxer and lots of Dylan, but then he played a song I had never heard before, "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Eric Bogle. We sat silent by the firelight and the lake. We have never learned, have we, despite all our protests in the sixties and seventies. Scroll down for the full lyrics and the song link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnFzCmAyOp8

>Lyrics

>Now when I was a young man, I carried me pack
And I lived the free life of the rover
From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback
Well, I waltzed my Matilda all over
Then in 1915, my country said "son
It's time you stopped rambling, there's work to be done"
So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun
And they marched me away to the war

>And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As the ship pulled away from the quay
And amidst all the cheers, the flag-waving and tears
We sailed off for Gallipoli

>And how well I remember that terrible day
How our blood stained the sand and the water
And of how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk, he was waiting, he'd primed himself well
He showered us with bullets and he rained us with shell
And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia

>But the band played Waltzing Matilda
When we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs
Then we started all over again

>And those that were left, well we tried to survive
In that mad world of blood, death and fire
And for ten weary weeks, I kept myself alive
Though around me the corpses piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head
And when I woke up in me hospital bed
And saw what it had done, well I wished I was dead
Never knew there was worse things than dyin'

>For I'll go no more waltzing Matilda
All around the green bush far and free
To hump tent and pegs, a man needs both legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me

>So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane
Those proud wounded heroes of Suvla
And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay
I looked at the place where me legs used to be
And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve, to mourn, and to pity

>But the band played Waltzing Matilda
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
Then they turned all their faces away

>And so now every April, I sit on me porch
And I watch the parades pass before me
And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reviving old dreams of past glories
And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore
They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war
And the young people ask, "what are they marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question

>But the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer the call
But as year follows year, more old men disappear
Someday no one will march there at all

>Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
And their ghosts may be heard
As they march by that billabong
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?

Hollywood likes to beg for forgiveness rather than ask permission.

>The Native Peruvian star claims the famed director told his team to base the design for the main character Neytiri (Zoë Saldaña) on her facial features after Cameron saw her in the 2006 Terrence Malick film The New World

I like to read or listen about the women who shaped Hollywood and until recently there was not that much but there is now

Irene Mayer Selznick was viewed as the "calm, analytical mind" to Selznik's "hurricane". The narrator said that she had "an impeccable sense of story structure, a deep understanding of character, and an almost infallible gage of public taste".

He broke into a home and raped and murdered a mother in front of her six-year-old son.

"Mosley was on court-ordered supervision at the time for a prior rape case in Jasper County involving the abduction of a minor, authorities said."

Funny captions only for these photos :)

EDIT : Thanks for all the love and awards on the post! I just became a Canadian citizen (originally from New Zealand) so seeing this was like Canada giving me a lil hug!

Also the police officer had a baton because the goose kept hissing at him and flapping its wings aggressively at him (almost attacking him) - but he was being lovely and patient and guiding them to a safe area <3

Rev. Maggie Helwig' of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Anglican Church, Toronto has won the $40,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for her book, ""Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community".

>The hearing comes after prosecutors claimed that Burke possessed “a significant amount of child pornography” in an iCloud storage account and on his phone last week during a court proceeding to schedule a preliminary hearing. https://globalnews.ca/news/11822084/d4vd-court-apperance-update-celeste-rivas-hernandez/