{"podcast":{"title":"CANADALAND","slug":"canadaland-317958","podcast_index_feed_id":317958,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/630ceae33fe37400122828c6","website_url":"https://www.canadaland.com/shows/canadaland/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/630ceae33fe37400122828c6/1743698771719-50c87864-d5ab-4617-8806-05f66a4e5c26.jpeg","author":"Jesse Brown","episode_count":1547,"summary":"The best newspaper in Canada is a podcast. Original reporting, sharp political analysis, and media criticism you won’t get anywhere else. Keeping you informed about what’s happening now in your country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-09T00:20:21.177575+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/canadaland-317958"},"episode":{"title":"The Fantasia Cold Case","slug":"the-fantasia-cold-case","published_at":"2026-04-27T10:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/canadaland-317958/the-fantasia-cold-case","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/canadaland-317958","url":"https://shows.acast.com/canadaland/episodes/69eeb4c1ae8bc4f37706e0fe","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/630ceae33fe37400122828c6/e/69eeb4c1ae8bc4f37706e0fe/media.mp3","summary":"A random Facebook post. A strip club that burnt down long ago. A mother missing for 30 years. It wasn’t much. But it was enough for reporter Kallan Lyons to start digging into The Fantasia Cold Case. Host: Jesse Brown Credits: Kallan Lyons (Reporter), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editing & Post Production), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher) Fact checking by Julian Abraham Additional music by Audio Network  More information: Wendy Renee Smith Cold Case Profile - York Regional Police COLD CASE: Fantasia Hotel haunts Wendy Smith’s family years after closure - York Region Sponsors:   Shopify : Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at Shopify.ca Douglas : Douglas is giving our listeners a FREE Sleep Bundle with each mattress purchase. Get the sheets, pillows, mattress and pillow protectors FREE with your Douglas purchase today. Visit do uglas.ca/canadaland to claim this offer. Fizz : Visit https://fizz.ca and activate a first plan using the referral code CAN25 to get 40$ off and 10GB of free data. It ’ s crowd-finding time at Canadaland! Share this episode with three people or simply send them over to canadaland.com/share and we’ll help them get started with a starter pack of some of our favourite episodes. Can’t get enough Canadaland? Follow @Canadaland_Podcasts on Instagram for clips, announcements, explainers and more. If you value this podcast, support us ! You’ll get premium access to all our shows ad free, including early releases and bonus content. You’ll also get our exclusive newsletter, discounts on merch at our store , tickets to our live and virtual events, and more than anything, you’ll be a part of the solution to Canada’s journalism crisis, you’ll be keeping our wo…","meta_description":"A random Facebook post. A strip club that burnt down long ago. A mother missing for 30 years. It wasn’t much. But it was enough for reporter Kallan Lyons…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2386,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/canadaland-317958/episodes/the-fantasia-cold-case/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/canadaland-317958/the-fantasia-cold-case.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}