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Windsor Morning with Amy Dodge: Segment on escaped prisoners
From Hollywood-style breakouts to simple walkaways: Why do prisoners escape? As the search continues for Chatham murderer Mason Jenkins, Windsor Morning host Amy Dodge spoke to Lorna Poplak, the author of "On the Lam: Great, and Not-So-Great, Escapes from Prison."...
Crime Writers of Canada Podcast
Erik D’Souza interviews Lorna Poplak about her book, On the Lam, Great and Not-So-Great Escapes from Prison" (published by Dundurn Press), which is nominated for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book, sponsored by David Reid Simpson Law Firm...
When Prisoners Are Released by Mistake
This article first appeared in The Globe and Mail online on December 5, 2025 During the last week of October, a grim comedy of errors played out in the United Kingdom.Instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre, Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian asylum seeker...
What’s the Toronto-est street in Toronto?
This super-old, super-long, superfamous one, of course! In 1793, the British established a small settlement in Upper Canada on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. This was the garrison town of “muddy” York — now Toronto — neatly arranged in a little 10-block grid. To...
Metro Morning: Doors Open Segment on “The Don”
Lorna appeared on CBC's Metro Morning ahead of Doors Open Toronto to talk about the Don Jail. Listen to the excerpt
Crime Writers of Canada’s Podcast: “Mesdames of Mayhem”
Lorna was interviewed in the most recent episode of the Crime Writes of Canada podast. Host Erik D'Souza also spoke with authors Donna Carrick, Madeleine Harris-Callaway, Jane Burfield, Blair Keetch, Rosemary McCracken, Lynne Murphy, and Melisa Yi about their newest...