S36 E1: The Queen Comes to Town | The Cult Queen of Canada
The Expert Witness from Uncover
CBC
4.5 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The prairie town of Richmound is shattered when "Queen of Canada" Romana Didulo and her cult occupy the local school. As the mayor struggles, locals organize a tense protest against the cult's intimidation and death threats, revealing deep divisions in the community.
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| 0:00.0 | For years, I've sounded like a broken record. |
| 0:03.2 | I do not want kids. |
| 0:04.7 | I do not ever want to have kids. |
| 0:06.1 | I don't want to have a kid. Don't want to have a kid. Don't want to have a kid. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm in my 40s now. The door is almost closed. |
| 0:12.3 | And suddenly, I'm not so sure. |
| 0:15.1 | The story has always been no. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm just wondering to what degree it's just a story. From CBC's personally, this is |
| 0:24.5 | creation myth. Available now on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | This story takes place in the heart of the Canadian prairies. |
| 0:49.5 | In a tiny village barely larger than a hamlet, not even big enough to be classified as a town. |
| 0:54.5 | It's surrounded by farmland so flat and so vast. |
| 0:57.7 | They say you can see the weather coming three days away. |
| 1:00.6 | But this story is about a storm. |
| 1:02.3 | No one saw coming. |
| 1:06.1 | It was Thursday, September 14th. |
| 1:08.6 | Got a text message from somebody local saying, |
| 1:12.4 | Oh, I hear that there's this person coming to Richmond. |
| 1:17.9 | Shauna Seine is telling me about the day that everything changed in Richmount, Saskatchewan. |
| 1:20.5 | Population, just over 100. |
| 1:26.4 | And over the course of the weekend, then it was confirmed that, yes, these RVs showed up at the school, |
| 1:28.8 | and this Romana Digilo is at the school. |
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