Playing Nurse: The Life and Crimes of Brigette Cleroux

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

Curiouscast

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Episode 368: Here, we delve into the life and crimes of Brigitte Denise Cleroux, examining how she repeatedly evaded regulatory scrutiny, the suffering she caused, and the systemic failures that enabled her persistence for so long. This story is a chilling tale of deception, exploitation, and the profound breach of trust within Canada’s health-care system. Cleroux masqueraded as a nurse for years in multiple provinces — British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta, and Quebec. She treated hundreds of patients, administering drugs and even performing medical procedures, all without a single legitimate credential. Her actions left a trail of traumatized patients, betrayed colleagues, and a health system forced to reckon with the vulnerabilities she so ruthlessly exploited. Source: ⁠She worked as a nurse for decades. She wasn't who she said she was.⁠⁠2024 BCSC 2435 (CanLII) | R. v Cleroux | CanLII⁠⁠2023 BCSC 1275 (CanLII) | Massie v Provincial Health Services Authority | CanLII⁠⁠2022 ONCJ 188 (CanLII) | R. v. Cleroux | CanLII⁠⁠2022 QCCQ 8569 (CanLII) | R. c. Vallée Baillargeon | CanLII⁠⁠2011 ABPC 182 (CanLII) | R. v. Marier | CanLII⁠⁠Unlicensed BC Nurse Class Action⁠⁠Cleroux (PHSA) BC | Class Action | Murphy Battista LLP⁠⁠Bogus nurse lawsuits continue to mount against B.C. health authorities⁠⁠Assault with a weapon: Fake nurse pleads guilty to assaulting B.C. patients by IV injection | CBC News⁠⁠West Shore RCMP - Nurse impersonator sentenced to 7 years in prison⁠⁠Fake nurse sentenced 7 years for impersonation, using needles on patients in Ottawa | CBC News⁠⁠B.C. ‘fake nurse’ Brigitte Cleroux sentenced to 7 years in prison⁠⁠Fake nurse Brigitte Cleroux apologizes in court | CBC News⁠⁠Woman who worked as a fake nurse in B.C. makes tearful statement in court⁠⁠Dozens of B.C. civil lawsuits filed in alleged bogus nurse case⁠⁠Public advisory: Melanie Smith is not a registrant of BCCNM⁠⁠Fake nurse’s ’deep seated dishonesty’ adds four more years to prison term: B.C. judge⁠⁠Serial Imposter Works as a FAKE Nurse For Two Decades | The Case of Brigitte Cleroux⁠⁠Alleged B.C. nurse impersonator needs yet another lawyer⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Mike here.
0:01.0	I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Dark Poutine early and ad-free on Amazon Music, included with Prime.
0:18.5	Welcome back to Dark Poutine.
0:20.2	I am Mike Brown.
0:21.7	And so am I.
0:23.0	No, you're not.
0:24.6	I'm Matthew. How is everybody?
0:27.7	It's good to see you.
0:29.2	It's good to see you again. We saw each other most recently.
0:32.6	Yes, we did. We went to the Vancouver art gallery, which you call...
0:36.0	The Vaj.
0:37.0	We went to the Vaj. Oh, you call the Vaj. We went to the Vaj.
0:38.9	Oh, no.
0:39.7	We saw Ria Pell and Emily Carr.
0:42.3	Emily Carr, yeah.
0:43.4	The Ria Pell was very eye-opening for me.
0:46.0	I liked how we got to walk through this person's art history and all that kind of thing.
0:51.8	From the 40s through to 1992.
0:54.3	Right, right from his childhood, essentially.
0:57.5	Yeah, yeah.
0:57.7	So anyway, let's move on to something else.
1:01.1	We're going to be dealing with an artist of a different kind, a con artist.
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