S36 Trailer | The Cult Queen of Canada
The Expert Witness from Uncover
CBC
4.5 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Coming February 23. 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 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | This story takes place in the heart of the prairies. |
| 0:09.7 | It's a place so flat they say you can see the weather coming three days away. |
| 0:14.7 | But this story is about a storm no one saw coming. |
| 0:19.3 | She calls herself the Queen of Canada and is no win for spreading conspiracy theories. |
| 0:25.0 | Queen Romanas in power and we're not paying any more bills. |
| 0:28.5 | Utilities are free. |
| 0:30.3 | It was the fall of 2023. |
| 0:32.8 | Romana Didelo, a woman calling herself the Queen of Canada, drove with a fleet of RVs into |
| 0:39.4 | Richmond, population 100, where she set up her kingdom in an abandoned school. |
| 0:46.7 | We saw the place being barricaded, people standing on guard 24 hours a day. |
| 0:51.8 | She declared COVID a hoax, told her followers to stop paying taxes, and threatened anyone in town who crossed her path. |
| 1:00.2 | Why would you like me executed? |
| 1:02.6 | So the town banded together to get the cult out by any means necessary. |
| 1:08.8 | You need to go far, far away. |
| 1:11.7 | Told him to get the fuck out of my village. |
| 1:14.3 | Could it be another Waco? |
| 1:16.2 | Was Richmound on the edge of disaster? |
| 1:18.8 | Or something much stranger? |
| 1:20.6 | They're using the Canadian people as their lab rats. |
| 1:24.1 | And these actions will not go unpunished. |
| 1:28.3 | A storm had arrived in Richm Richmond, and it wasn't leaving anytime soon, because the |
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