Introducing: The Cult Queen of Canada from Uncover
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall
CBC
4.6 • 752 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In The Cult Queen of Canada from CBC’s Uncover, a tiny Saskatchewan town faces a surreal crisis when a cult leader calling herself “The Queen of Canada” occupies an abandoned school. As neighbours turn on each other, a retired teacher leads resistance in a story about what happens when online extremism spills into the real world. Hosted by Rachel Browne.
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| 0:00.0 | Deep fake porn didn't come out of nowhere. |
| 0:02.6 | It was allowed to spread, while governments dragged their feet and tech companies shrugged. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm staring at myself in this video that I know I haven't made. |
| 0:12.3 | This is what it looks like to feel violated. |
| 0:14.7 | This season on Understood, if you follow the trail, who does it lead to? |
| 0:19.3 | These images, they were like hunting me. |
| 0:21.2 | And the biggest platform was Mr. Deepfakes. |
| 0:24.0 | Understood. |
| 0:24.8 | Deepfake porn empire. |
| 0:26.5 | Available now on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.2 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:36.8 | What happens when a conspiracy theory literally drives into your backyard? |
| 0:42.4 | I'm Rachel Brown, and I'm an award-winning investigative journalist and host of the latest season of Uncover, the cult queen of Canada. |
| 0:51.2 | In Richmount, Saskatchewan, a prairie town with a population of just over 100 people, an abandoned school became the unlikely stage for a 21st century crisis. |
| 1:02.0 | When Romana Didolo, a cult leader who calls herself the Queen of Canada, arrived with her followers and turned the school into her kingdom, the town was thrust into a surreal |
| 1:13.7 | standoff. The Cult Queen of Canada is a story about polarization, power vacuums, and what |
| 1:21.2 | happens when a small community becomes the testing ground for extremism in modern Canada? |
| 1:27.2 | Now, here's the first episode of the Cult Queen of Canada from Uncover. |
| 1:32.3 | Have a listen. |
| 1:42.1 | This story takes place in the heart of the Canadian prairies, |
| 1:45.7 | in a tiny village barely larger than a hamlet, |
| 1:48.8 | not even big enough to be classified as a town. |
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