S30 E3: Stick to the script | Bad Results
Sea of Lies from Uncover
CBC
4.6 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On the surface, Accu-Metrics was making headlines and growing strong. But two former employees paint a troubling picture of what was going on inside, from staff who don’t seem properly trained to a stream of customers complaining about test results. Plus, the questions they were instructed to ask just didn’t seem right…
A legal note: Over the course of this podcast, a number of allegations are made against Viaguard Accu-Metrics and its employees. When asked, company owner Harvey Tenenbaum said he stands by the test, and that any errors were caused by customers during sample collection.
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| 0:00.0 | It's been called Canada's Titanic. |
| 0:03.0 | It was the worst maritime disaster in the Pacific Northwest, |
| 0:07.0 | but the tragic story of the Princess Sophia remains largely forgotten. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Phelan Johnson, co-host of the Secret Life of Canada, |
| 0:15.0 | and in our latest episode, we dig into what went wrong aboard the Princess Sophia |
| 0:19.0 | and what happened in the immediate aftermath |
| 0:21.8 | that made a terrible disaster even worse. |
| 0:24.9 | Find Secret Life of Canada |
| 0:26.1 | wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.6 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:41.4 | Thank you. podcast. Let's just get into this story. |
| 0:43.7 | George, you've had a feeling for a long time that John Defenbaker was your true father. |
| 0:49.0 | Right. |
| 0:49.4 | And so what's the news today? |
| 0:51.2 | It's a splashy, salacious political story, at least for Canada. |
| 0:56.1 | George Dryden is making headlines, claiming he's the secret love child of a former prime minister. |
| 1:02.4 | Did former Canadian Prime Minister John Deefan Baker secretly father not one, but two sons with two different women? |
| 1:09.9 | With his bulldog jowls, middle-aged George is a mirror image of the long dead and long believed to be childless politician. |
| 1:17.6 | Well, your mother was a confident and family friend and you believe she had an affair with Mr. Defenbaker, although she never confirmed it, correct? |
| 1:25.6 | She was very friendly with Defenbaker |
| 1:27.9 | all throughout the 60s. For years, George believed Defenbaker was his dad, and now a DNA test confirms it. |
| 1:37.2 | You know, I've proven that I'm a Defenbaker, end a story. Okay, so let me shift the focus now to the |
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